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The Sponge Divers (1955) is a novel by Australian authors Charmian Clift and George Johnston. The novel was also published in the USA under the title The Sea and the Stone.[1]
^Austlit - The Sponge Divers by Charmian Clift and George Johnston
May 2011). "The Story of SpongeDivers". dan.org. Retrieved 28 December 2022. Moussas, Nikos (27 Dec 2016). "Natural Sea Sponges and sponge diving history"...
throughout the years. He wanted these scores to be composed by unknowns, and a group of twelve was assembled. They formed "TheSpongeDivers Orchestra"...
second quarter of the first century BC. It was discovered by spongedivers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. The wreck yielded...
known and billed as the "Sponge-divers' island". Sponge diving has long been a common occupation on Kalymnos and sponges were the main source of income...
sponge diving to the area and recruited Greek spongedivers from the Dodecanese Islands. By the 1930s, thesponge industry of Tarpon Springs was very productive...
(with George Johnston), 1949 The Big Chariot (with Johnston), 1953 TheSpongeDivers (with Johnston), 1955 Walk to the Paradise Gardens, 1960 Honour's...
breath-holding divers would descend to depths up to 30 metres (98 ft) to collect sponges. Harvesting of red coral was also done by divers.[citation needed] The Mediterranean...
in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. It was the first of the series of Greek...
including the Antikythera Youth. Discovered in 1900 by Greek spongedivers, the ship probably sank in the 1st century BC and may have been dispatched by the Roman...
contemporary divers is that of Stathis Chantzis, a Greek sponge fisherman who, on 14 July 1913, in the Karpathos port recovered the lost anchor of the Regina...
to the Ottoman Empire. Bodrum was a quiet town of fishermen and spongedivers until the early 20th century. From 1867 until 1922, it was part of the Aidin...
that spongedivers would sing when traveling with their caïque boats across the seas. The rhythm of the song was supposed to coordinate with the rhythm...
Mazatlán, Mexico. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, who died on August 26, 1930. A community of spongedivers are harassed by...
(alias The Fisherman of Halicarnassus). The author, who had been exiled to Bodrum in 1925, began taking trips with his friends on the local spongedivers' sailing...
by sponge-divers at Antikythera in 1900, the Mahdia shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, 1907; the Marathon Boy off the coast of Marathon, 1925; the standing...
in the Aegean and Mediterranean: the Antikythera mechanism, the Antikythera Ephebe and the portrait head of a Stoic discovered by sponge-divers in 1900...
Çakir's sketching of “the metal biscuits with ears” recognized as oxhide ingots. Turkish spongedivers were often consulted by the Institute of Nautical...
children. In his honor the "disease of the naked spongedivers" was named "Skevos Zervos disease". As a posthumous honor, the local Kalymnian Government...
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...
Sea sponge aquaculture is the process of farming sea sponges under controlled conditions. It has been conducted in the world's oceans for centuries using...
Promises Scene-Stealing Fireworks". Los Angeles Times. p. 11. "Among theSpongeDivers". New York Times. 19 January 1934. p. 24. Sixteen Fathoms Deep at...
fishermen and spongedivers. In 1938, they produced 700 oka (900 kg) of sponges. Nea Koutali is still known in Greece and abroad for its sponge production...