Discover why Tarpon Springs, Florida, feels like a European coastal town. From Greek sponge diving heritage to Mediterranean ...

"In the 1950s, Tarpon Springs was truly becoming the sponge capital of the world," Lowe said. "When I'd come and I'd go by the docks, I mean there were just mountains of (sponges) in there.

Arriving to Tarpon Springs, they worked the sponge business as divers and crew, also creating local businesses to begin a new chapter in Florida’s cultural heritage – shifting the center of ...

Mr. Fatolitis, who is believed to be the last of the hardhat sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, died Feb. 4 at Hospice House Brookside. He was 88.

For many years, Tarpon Springs, just north of Clearwater, has billed itself as the sponge capital of the world and the place to visit Greece without leaving Florida. Ethnic and cultural pride ...

Tarpon Springs, which still harvests 90 to 95 percent of all natural sea sponges, is touted as the "Sponge Capital of the World," in Tarpon Springs on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. Patrick Connolly ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — In Tarpon Springs, the history, hard work, and heart that family businesses and sponge divers pour into the Greek community make the Sponge Docks the special place it is.

By 1905 more than 500 Greek sponge divers worked on 50 boats in Tarpon. These early residents gave life to today’s city. Tarpon Springs today has a higher percentage of Greek Americans than any ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — When 60 Greek Orthodox boys dive for the cross at the Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs on Monday, they will be jumping out of ten very special boats.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — In a spectacle repeated every Jan. 6 for more than a century, dozens of teenage boys set out from the stately Greek Orthodox cathedral in this Florida Gulf Coast town to ...