A statue in honor of Eugenia Mastoridou, recognized as the first female diver in Greece, was unveiled last year at the port ...

In 1901, sponge divers discovered a 2,000-year-old computer in a shipwreck—and it continues to baffle historians today. This is the unbelievable story of the Antikythera mechanism. Trump’s message to ...

Sharp official eyes search the gay streets of the Greek quarter of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Alien sponge divers (TIME, Jan. 21) move aside, shift their glance away. Along the waterfront, among the gaudy ...

Danger and defying death has its own beauty for some people It is grand and courageous The Kalymnian sponge divers start when they are eighteen and devote their lives till they are thirtyfive to their ...

Bright over the Gulf of Mexico blazed the sun. A small white boat,one-masted, drifted into the tidy harbor of Tarpon Springs, Fla. On abeam reaching from the mast to the flagstaff astern, hung ...

Tarpon Springs Mayor Beverley Billiris, left, dons a traditional canvas sponge diving suit, complete with steel shoes and a special helmet before her dive in the Anclote River. The mayor performed the ...