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 ...

Fishers forced off the water by the state's net ban soon may have another career choice: sponge diving. St. Petersburg Junior College expects to offer a sponge-diving course this summer for as many as ...