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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 Plaque in Tarpon Springs, Florida, commemorating Cocoris. John Michael Cocoris (Greek: Γιάννης Μιχάλης Κόκκορης; September 17, 1877 – 1944) was a Greek businessman. Born in Leonidio, he came to New York City in 1895 to work in the sponge trade. In 1896, he worked with John K. Cheyney in Tarpon Springs ...
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.
It's an outpost of Nana's Mystic, a Connecticut restaurant that was among Esquire magazine's Best New Restaurants in 2021. Westerly's Nana's opened in 2022. The new restaurant could open as soon ...
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 ...
Here’s which restaurants are open (and closed) on Thanksgiving 2023. Chris Morris. November 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM. Getty Images.
Category: Sponge diving. 1 language. ... Tarpon Springs, Florida This page was last edited on 12 June 2021, at 10:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A Japanese restaurant along a busy corridor in Lexington has closed its doors. Ichiban Japanese Express, located at 5341 Sunset Blvd. suite C in Topspin Plaza, has shuttered.