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These new immigrants made a living from cotton production and collecting sponges, but after several disastrous harvests and a fierce hurricane, a group of Abaconians left to create a sister community on Key West off the southern tip of Florida.
A hurricane in 1839 drowned some 300 sponge fishermen in the ‘mud’ off Andros, and a devastating fungus some 40 years later killed almost all the sponges.
Women have traditionally formed the majority of the congregation, praying for the protection of their fathers, husbands, and sons while they were away at sea in merchant fleets, diving for sponges, or working in lands far away.
There are so many tropical fish (angel fish, grouper, parrot fish, moray eels) and sponges that it can feel like swimming in an aquarium.
This sponges up minerals in your saliva that would otherwise collect on your teeth and form tartar (hardened plaque).