Tarpon Springs, Florida, has all the small-town amenities ... The boat docks welcome many different sponge boats and sponge ...

Tarpon Springs, Florida, located on the Gulf of Mexico ... and thousands of sponges were delivered to the docks by sponge boats each week. Today, sponge boats pulling up after a dive aren ...

A small white boat,one-masted ... But diving for sponges is lucrative. During 1927 the valuation of the sponge catch at Tarpon Springs was $886,216. The figures for 1928, not yet compiled ...