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Boowa and his undersea maze

Posted on February 18, 2007 by divingforpearls

Doesn’t Diving For Pearls with Boowa look fun ? He looks cool diving for pearls wearing his snorkel. Boowa wants to make a lovely pearl necklace for Kwala. Will he find enough jewels or will Kwala have to settle for … Continue reading →

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Pearl-diver in the Persian Gulf

Posted on January 6, 2007 by divingforpearls

Pearl-diver in the Persian Gulf, from The Youngfolk’s Book of Invention (1926), by T.C. Bridges

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Japanese pearl diver

Posted on October 28, 2006 by divingforpearls

Japanese woman pearl diver, in 1968. The image accompanies a 2005 news item on Discovery.com about a tankless breathing system for divers. 

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Pearl-Diving Kiki

Posted on September 17, 2006 by divingforpearls

Spoof toy advertisement from http://www.goblertoys.com

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Pearl Diver

Posted on September 1, 2006 by divingforpearls

Your aim is to find the pearls hidden in the sea bed off the sun drenched beaches of a tropical island. This is free diving so first you must fill your lungs with oxygen before making your dive. Keep an … Continue reading →

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Pearl divers at Enoshima

Posted on August 22, 2006 by divingforpearls

‘Soshu Enoshima..ya no zu’ (Pearl divers at Enoshima), Kitigawa Tsukimaro (c.1804-1818). Reproduced from Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council’s Cotton Town digitisation project: http://www.cottontown.org. The print shows Japanese women pearl divers, and comes from the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery collection. … Continue reading →

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Trainspotting

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

Renton (Ewan MacGregor) dives down through ‘the worst toilet in Scotland’ to seek out mislaid drugs at the bottom of the ‘sea’, in a fantasy sequence from the film Trainspotting. Trainspotting (1996), d. Danny Boyle

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