Sponges

David Doubilet

National Geographic

Before their arrival sponge fishing had been done from a boat, with long sticks used to spear the prey one at a time. The Greek émigrés changed all that. Wearing 200-pound diving suits, they plunged 120 feet below the sea's surface and harvest the black, jelly-like sponges. This is a series of photographs on sponge fishing.

David Doubilet, "Sponges," in POYi Archive, Item #9274, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/9274 (accessed May 17, 2024).