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In 1896, he worked with John K. Cheyney in Tarpon Springs, Florida. [1] In 1905, he introduced sponge diving to the area and recruited Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese Islands. By the 1930s, the sponge industry of Tarpon Springs was very productive, generating millions of dollars a year. He died in 1944 in Duval County, Florida.
When the Greek sponge divers started using surface supplied standard diving suits (locally called scaphandro) in 1865 the death and injury rate from decompression sickness was extremely high as the procedures for safe decompression were as yet unknown. Some estimates put the death toll at around 10,000 Mediterranean divers in the first 50 years ...
John Cocoris – introduced the technique of sponge diving in 1905 to Tarpon Springs by recruiting divers and crew members from Greece. The first divers came from the Saronic Gulf islands of Aegina and Hydra, but they were soon outnumbered by those from the Dodecanese islands of Kalymnos, Symi and Halki.
John King Cheyney (April 1, 1858 – March 19, 1939) was a Sponge Company & Sponge Exchange founder, a local politician and a sponge industry promoter in Tarpon Springs, Florida. [1] [2] [3] A memorial on Dodecanese Boulevard commemorates his life. [4] He is listed as a Great Floridian.
Tarpon Springs: Pinellas County: August 3, 1990 N.K. Symi (Sponge Diving Boat) Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks at Dodecanese Boulevard: Tarpon Springs: Pinellas County: August 2, 1990 St. Nicholas III (Sponge Diving Boat) Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks at Dodecanese Boulevard: Tarpon Springs: Pinellas County: August 3, 1990 St. Nicholas VI (Sponge ...
Mike (Gilbert Roland) and Tony Petrakis (Robert Wagner) are Greek American father and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, Conch fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two ...
They then tested the sponge in four different water samples, taken from irrigation water, pond water, lake water and sea water, and found it removed up to 99.9% of microplastics, according to a ...
Tarpon Springs High School is a public high school in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The school graduated its first class of seniors in the year 1906. [2] The school is known for its football team, Band, Leadership Conservatory, Culinary department, and Veterinary Science Academy. Its mascot is a sponge diver, reflecting the town's history of sponge ...