TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The history of Tarpon Springs is rooted in immigrants who came to the area at the turn of the century from Greece. George Billiris belongs to one of those families who made ...
Tarpon Springs - In a small shop, crammed with antique machines, Nick Toth hammers away. He’s making sponge-diving helmets just the way his grandfather did nearly a century ago.Toth is perhaps the ...
By the 1930s, a very productive sponge industry was generating millions of dollars a year. The 1953 film "Beneath the 12Mile Reef" depicted sponge diving. The film was made in Tarpon Springs.