Sponge Boat, Tarpon Springs, Florida
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Sponge Boat, Tarpon Springs, Florida
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Dawna Moore Photography
Medium
Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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"John K. Cheney built a warehouse in Tarpon Springs to handle sponges bound for New York then hired Greek divers and a buyer, John Cocoris. Cocoris went back to Greece and brought over divers, diving engines, oxygen lines and rubber diving suits topped by bell-shaped diving helmets. The men pooled their money and bought a large boat. On June 18, 1905 a diver was lowered overboard and walked for the first time on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, trailing oxygen bubbles and carrying a short rake to hook sponges." (visitflorida)
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August 20th, 2016
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