Nicholas Toth hunched over his lathe with sweat on his brow and a smile on his face. The sound of brass being shaved to the exact width he needed put that smile there. “In a lot of respects I feel ...

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 ...

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 ...