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Before the invention of synthetic sponges, divers culled the seabeds of the Aegean for animal sponges, or ""sea gold"", to supply global demand, while risking paralysis or death from decompression disease. This is a study of sponge diving and the impact of the industry on the inhabitants of Kalymnos and the Mediterranean. It is a record of the 10,000 divers who died, the 20,000 who were paralysed between 1886 and 1910, and the women who were there to sustain them when they returned home.

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AUTHOR: Evdokia Olympitou (1962 - 2011), Ph.D., was a researcher at the Centre for Neo-Hellenic Research at the Institute for Historical Research of the Hellenic National Research Foundation from 1994 - 2003. From 2003 - 2011, she was an assistant professor of ethnology in the Department of History at the Ionian University. EDITOR: Joyce Goggin, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on various topics in literature, media studies, popular culture, film, and art history.

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