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Danger and defying death has its own beauty for some people. It is grand and courageous. The Kalymnian sponge divers start when they are eighteen and devote their lives till they are thirty-five to their difficult and tough profession. In this documentary, filmmaker Demetres Anagnostopoulos takes a brave dive into the "sponge job" as Kalymnians call it, including all the factors that linked this profession to an entire island and this unique human race. Starting from Kalymnos, their island, and its surroundings, the boat yards where they built their boats, the traditional ways of sponge diving and the testimonies of the protagonists, captains and divers hit by the divers' disease, and moving on to show the sponge manufacture, the world-unique museum where they guard their tradition, and the folklore artists who chronicle it in their own way.

Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.

Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.

Documentary film about the adventurous professional life of sponge divers on the Greek Aegean island of Kalymnos. Their existence has been called into question since the entire sponge population became unusable due to fungal infestation in the fall of 1986, for which the fishermen blame the Chernobyl disaster.