One of America's most difficult-to-photograph free museum dioramas: The Dying Sponge Diver (video grab collage).
Spongeorama: Diver's Nightmare
Tarpon Springs, Florida
A few feet away from the "Sponge Diver's Dream" display in the Spongeorama Free Museum is the Sponge Diver's Nightmare. Ascending too frantically with a prized sponge (probably the "Cadillac of Sponges"), he dies of the bends.
We marvel at this exhibit. Each time we visit, the glass is more difficult to see through. And the rubber diving suit is covered with a cancerous lizard skin rot that emanates out from the crotch. Always rewarding!
Also see: Spongeorama
Spongeorama
- Address:
- 510 Dodecanese Blvd., Tarpon Springs, FL [Show Map]
- Hours:
- 10 am - 5:30 pm. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 813-942-3771
Nearby Offbeat Places
- Suncoast Primate Sanctuary (Chimp Farm), Tarpon Springs, FL - 3 mi.
- Muffler Man, Tampa, FL - 22 mi.
- Sunken Gardens, St. Petersburg, FL - 26 mi.
- Dinosaur World, Plant City, FL - 36 mi.
