Seawater mixed with mud replaced the usual scene of gyros and baklava on the Tarpon Springs sponge docks the morning after Helene rolled through.
Bill Gresko is a sponge diver and rode out the storm on his boat, the Agios Fanourious, parked at the sponge docks. He said the water got up to the height of door handles, and he was afraid his boat was going to float onto Dodecanese Boulevard.
“Well, I prepared big time. I had the engine ready to start to move all my lines I can do from the boat,” he said. “Everything was prepared.”…