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	MILSTEIN HALL OF OCEAN LIFE \| American Museum of Natural History
		Containers of pearl oysters are returned into the water and retrieved when the pearls are ready to be collected at least two years later.
		Cultured pearls are real pearls; the only difference is that the nucleus is introduced by humans instead of by chance.
		As early as the 5th century, the Chinese produced pearls by inserting small objects, including images of Buddha, between the shell of a freshwater mussel and its nacre-producing mantle.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/ocean/01_dioramas/c_pearldiving.php (686 words)

	Pearl hunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl hunting or pearl diving refers to a now largely obsolete method of retrieving pearls from oysters.
		Because of the difficulty of diving and the unpredictable nature of natural pearl growth in oysters, pearls of the time were extremely rare and of varying quality.
		Pearl divers near the Philippines were also successful at harvesting large pearls, especially in the Sulu Archipelago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_diving (349 words)

	Nekton
		The result of a naturally occurring biological process, pearls are formed when certain varieties of marine molluscs attempt to reduce the irritation caused by small foreign particles that inadvertently become embedded in the meaty flesh contained within the two halves of their shell.
		A form of pearl diving that is still continued today in certain parts of the world, breath hold diving for shell is intensive, physically demanding and not terribly efficient work; a problem that, during the latter part of the 19th century, was partially redressed with the introduction of heavy-duty diving helmets and dress.
		With the cost of diving for naturally formed pearls proving uneconomic, the introduction of cultured pearl farms into Australia and Tahiti, (during the mid-fifties and 'sixties respectively) presented a new generation of divers with fresh employment opportunities.
	e-nekton.com /pearl26022806.htm (1482 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Servants of the Pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When pearls are cultured, an irritant, usually a tiny piece of shell, is placed inside the young oyster, or spat, which is then returned to the sea to grow for another two to 10 years, or even more.
		But the cultured pearl loses its luster, both dealers and wearers believe, and its color fades a few decades after harvesting, whereas there are natural pearls 300 or 400 years old that are as lustrous and beautiful today as when they were found.
		During the pearling season, in the old days, men and their boy tabbabah, or apprentices, worked, ate and slept on the open deck under the iron rule of the nokhatha, or captain, who was frequently also the boat owner.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199005/servants.of.the.pearl.htm (2629 words)

	Pearl diving
		Cleopatra reportedly dissolved a single pearl in a glass of wine and drank it, simply to win a wager with Mark Antony that she could consume the wealth of an entire nation in just one meal.
		Their diving ritual would often begin by downing a bottle of port, before donning their diving helmets, after which they would be lowered over the lugger's side to spend hours underwater.
		Pity the diver on the bottom when his lugger was smashed by one of the four cyclones to catch the pearling fleet at sea between 1908 and 1935.
	www.divingheritage.com /pearldivingkern.htm (1336 words)

	::(Welcome to Island Pearl Holidays - Diving in the Maldives
		The several years of experience of the diving centers, has guaranteed high standards in the selection of resort islands as well as the quality of equipments used and the expertise of the diving staff.
		Guided dives under the supervision of diving instructors are for novices and those who still haven’t gained the necessary confidence.
		However it is the diving instructor who decides as to how confident and how experienced one is in their diving skills.
	www.islandpearl.com.mv /diving.htm (488 words)

	Only Pearls/Planeta.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The pearls were ugly flened little nubs because the Indians had no knives; to open the oyster shells they threw them into a fire.
		Bane of the Jesuits, within a few years Ocio had sold hundreds of pounds of pearls and parlayed his fortune into properties in Guadalajara, silver mines in the mountains south of La Paz, and, grazing over the mission territories of the cape region, that voracious herd of 16,000 head of cattle.
		As time went by, the pearls, when the divers found them, were increasingly unremarkable specimens, tiny things to be strung on a simple necklace or glued to the end of a hat pin.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/03/0305pearls.html (878 words)

	The Pearl - Qatar
		The rediscovered island, which is being built on a reclaimed pearl diving reef, will offer a high-end island retreat with 30,000 residents in 10 distinctly themed districts, three deluxe hotels, four marinas, leisure facilities and 60,000 square metres of luxury retail and restaurant space.
		Pearl fishing was the traditional mainstay of the economy until oil and gas took over around 50 years ago.
		Although pearling is no longer a key economic driver, it has left a legacy of skills, stories, music, art and poetry that is a source of identity and pride for Qataris today.
	www.thepearlqatar.com /SubTemplate1.aspx?ID=170&MID=86 (1134 words)

	Manihi Pearl Beach Resort - Manihi Blue Nui Diving Center
		Diving: This living liquid highway connecting the ocean to the lagoon offers different itineraries which are the fabulous "drift dives" through the in-coming current accompanied by the boat which follows above.
		Diving: A large break in the reef on the ocean side where, in an amphitheatre of coral, you can quite safely be the spectator of an exciting shark feeding, which attracts a multitude of reef sharks including fltip, whitetip, grey, and occasionally the larger deep water whitetip.
		Diving: Situated just between the pass and the lagoon, populated by large Napoleon wrasse and fl-tip sharks, it is the favorite meeting place of eagle rays and manta rays.
	www.pearlresorts.com /manihi/diving.php (728 words)

	Player Bio: Bruce Pearl :: Men's Basketball
		Pearl's outgoing nature has attracted the attention of citizens and media across the state and Pearl has become a regular on local talk shows, including filling in as a host on WTMJ, the city's top station.
		Pearl then proceeded to lead UWM to 16 wins that season, which at the time marked the most wins for the program since the 1992-93 season.
		Pearl, who also served as Coordinator of Athletic Development at USI, annually raised over $500,000 for the university, and spurred unparalleled growth in the Varsity Club and other booster organizations.
	uwmpanthers.cstv.com /sports/m-baskbl/mtt/pearl_bruce00.html (1170 words)

	Where Have All The Pearls Gone?
		Pearls were incidental and were usually the property of the diver who found them.
		In the 1855 pearling season in the La Paz-Loreto-Mulege beds, there were 25 armadas of pearling vessels (I translate this as fleets); 368 divers and 49 canoes, plus 20 smaller launches and other boats.
		One of the richest early pearling areas frequented by modern recreational divers was in the southern part of the Sea of Cortez, from Mulege in the North to Cabo San Lucas; particularly off La Paz.
	www.skin-diver.com /departments/crosstalk/WhereHaveAllThePearlsGone.asp?theID=138 (1417 words)

	Brief History of the Pearl Islands and Panama, Aracari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pearls were then used as ornament and to trade with.
		The Pearl Islands arose the greed of the Spaniards.
		Later on, the Pearl Island sheltered famous pirates of different nationalities that for several centuries looted the wealthy Spanish settlements and fleet.
	www.aracari.com /beach/brief_history.shtml (575 words)

	Diving, Underwater
		Probably the first large-scale diving efforts, beginning at least 6500 years ago, were directed to acquiring pearls and mother-of-pearl and involved divers trained from childhood for lung capacity and endurance.
		The first underwater mechanical devices, eg, wooden diving bells, may have been constructed as early as 332 BC and underwent significant modification even before the 19th century.
		The first workable diving suit was developed by Augustus Siebe of England about 1839.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002323 (155 words)

	Historical diving profiles for pearl oyster divers in Western Australia - Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, ...
		Drift diving practices in the Western Australian pearling industry over the last eighteen years are described and related to the number of medical incidents.
		Up to 36,561 dives and 24,127 hours of dive time in depths of up to 35 metres were performed each year with the greatest number of dives occurring in 1990.
		Since the introduction of the Pearl Diving Industry Code of Practice in 1991, mean dive times and the total daily dive time increased and the mean interval between dives decreased for all depths.
	www.fish.wa.gov.au /docs/frr/frr138/summary.php?0401 (478 words)

	OCEANS ENTERPRISES - PEARL DIVING - UNDERWATER BOOKS, DIVING BOOKS.
		Tells of diving for pearl in Torres Strait and the Solomon Islands - and a fight to the death with a Japanese diver.
		The Ama women do not dive for pearls, as is commonly believed but for edible seaweed and shell-fish.
		There was an appalling death rate among the early divers where ignorance of the hazards of deep and prolonged diving resulted in a painful death or at best, incapacitation, through what became known as decompression sickness.
	www.oceans.com.au /oe-pearldiving.html (946 words)

	Pearl Divers of Mesopotamia and Other Free Divers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mother of pearl is a smooth, iridescent substance, formed on the inner shell of many molluscs.
		To gather mother of pearl and pearls in the quantities described by the archaeologists that uncovered these artifacts, Beebe reasons that people had to be diving.
		As scuba diving proliferates and the lure of greater monetary awards entice divers deeper for longer, the fatalities associated with scuba diving have risen dramatically.
	www.oceansonline.com /pearl_divers.htm (2714 words)

	Pearl Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is not exactly known when pearls were first discovered or who discovered them, but it is thought that they were first used as jewelry by freshwater fishermen.
		Pearls were once the most valuable material on earth.
		Pearl diving, also known as pearling, began in the 1850s in northern Western Australia.
	www.dcs.edu /opnet/langarts/thepearl/Pearl/page1.htm (267 words)

	I'm back, but no doubt you didn't even know I'd gone. - Travel - Non-Gaming - Discussion Forum /// Eurogamer
		Last time I went was a training dive late October to Stoney Cove, a flooded quarry, and it was freezing with visibility less than a metre.
		I qualified to dive in Grand Turk a couple of years ago and it was awesome.
		A mate has dived in the Thames where visibility is about a foot in front of you and thats it.
	www.eurogamer.net /forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=48536&forum_id=1 (985 words)

	Pearl Diving
		Some of the fishermen probably found the occasional pearl when wading in the shallows, and kept it until there was an opportunity to barter it.
		Pearling offered the possibility of comparative riches if one was lucky enough to be on a boat that discovered a top quality pearl or two.
		Each diver wears a clip like a clothes-peg to close his nostrils, leather sheaths protect his fingers and enable him to (wrench) the shells from the rocks underneath the sea, and each of his big toes is guarded by a similar sheath.
	www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae /english/history/history_pearl.asp (1108 words)

	Discover Local Diving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pearl Lake is located 10 minutes south of the Wisconsin-Illinois border just outside of South Beloit, Illinois.
		Because of these attractions and the numerous underwater training platforms, Pearl Lake is considered one of the best dive training facilities in the Midwest.
		Pearl Lake allows night diving, but all divers must be checked out by 10:00 p.m.
	www.dive-aai.com /local.asp (852 words)

	Bay Area Scuba Dive Center,Blue Water Aquatics,Sunnyvale,Santa Clara,Padi & Andi scuba instruction for Diving Monterey
		The Historical Diving Society (HDS) USA is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to "preserve, study, compile, archive and disseminate information relating to the history of man's underwater activities." The society also promotes public awareness of and participation in underwater activities.
		The Historical Diving Society (the HDS) was formed in 1990 in the UK by a group of enthusiasts whose aim is to preserve and protect diving heritage.
		After the show and the record dive she becomes a hero to women around the world and many new female divers join the sport.
	www.bluewater-aquatics.com /divehistory.htm (2158 words)

	"Pearl Diving"
		Pearl diving is the age old way to harvest these luminescent gems from the sea.
		Pearl diving goes back over 5000 years and probably originated with the Chinese who valued the gem quite highly.
		Pearls are formed when a foreign substance (either sand or a piece of shell or other small object) makes it's way inside a mollusk like an oyster or mussel.
	www.artisan-jewelry-online.com /pearl-diving.html (463 words)

	Black Pearl Jewelry at Manea Black Pearls
		Pearls have been known and valued in both the orient and the Western world from earliest times.
		In the early days one had only to stand waist-deep in the water to pick up pearl oysters, but by 1850 the oysters were becoming scarce.
		From the time the first navigators arrived until about 1860, the harvesting and trading of oysters and pearls were entirely in the hands of the captains of the trading vessels, who operated essentially according to a barter system.
	www.maneapearls.com /pub/info-discovery.php (209 words)

	Pearls \| Mikimoto Pearls \| Mikimotomoto Prices\| Pearl Strands \| Pearl Necklaces
		When Kokichi Mikimoto first developed his technique for making cultured pearls in 1893, he changed forever the way in which pearls were obtained and the prices that people were willing to pay for them.
		No longer dependent on the risks of pearl diving, Mikimoto was able to make virtually perfect pearls every time.
		Pearl jewelry from us and Mikimoto and Co. is manufactured using akoya cultured pearls from Japan.
	www.sndgems.com /mikimotoprices.html (392 words)

	San Diego Restaurants , Cafes and Eateries - Guide to Dining in San Diego. Restaurants from casual to fine dining. ...
		RANCHO BERNARDO – According to gemologists, the perfect pearl is large, blemish-free and pure white, with a luster that shimmers and glows.
		Open just a couple of weeks, Pearl is the sister restaurant of Emerald Seafood on Convoy Street.
		Pearl's oversized, glossy menu has full-color photos allowing us a peek before we plunge.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/86674 (809 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Pearl Harbor officials also said yesterday that key Navy leaders are expected to travel to Uwajima on Saturday to explain to relatives of the Ehime Maru's crew the planned salvage operations.
		Rob Fink, commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, said the umbilical cord gives the diver "an unlimited supply of air" and the ability to communicate constantly with the surface.
		They will only be allowed 90 minutes on the bottom and in the Ehime Maru before they must mount the stage and slowly be brought back to the surface, stopping at 40 feet to rest and decompress for three minutes and then rising another 30 feet to decompress for an additional seven minutes.
	www.starbulletin.com /2001/08/16/news/story4.html (1050 words)

	Pearl Diving:
		While working conditions for pearl divers have improved dramatically in the last 50 years, this rugged coastline and the whims of mother nature serve as a constant reminder of the dangers of life at sea.
		My first pearl shell." Thinking, "I wonder if this is the one that's going to grow a pearl that will go on Lady Di's little pinkie," or something like that.
		We...we...that was the first human hand that touched that pearl shell which was then going to go on to be handled hundreds and hundreds of times before, eventually...to produce pearls, you know, which is what is the end result.
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s860133.htm (1140 words)

	Kuwait Culture Heritage, Diwaniya, Bedouin, Al Sadu, Pearl Diving, Ship Building, Falconry.
		Pearling, an ancient occupation, was vital to Kuwait's economy at the end of the 19th century.
		The general term for pearl fishery is ghaus (literally diving) and everyone connected with it is known as ghawawis.
		Every pearling season, in June, Kuwaiti youth learn about their heritage by participating in the Pearl Diving Festival, thus keeping a part of the country's history alive.
	www.kuwait-info.com /sidepages/culture_heritage.asp (871 words)

	Best scuba diving places for scuba divers underwater explorers
		On the western side of the continent, the Ningaloo Reef is less known and less crowded, home to whale sharks, the world's largest fish, who come close to shore to feed on the sperm and eggs of the coral polyps.
		The best scuba diving spots in Asia are in Thailand in some of the islands off the west coast of the Thai peninsula.
		Phuket is known as the "Pearl of the South." The waters off its coast are full of life and diver can explore coral fields, shipwrecks and caves.
	www.ezilon.com /information/article_15481.shtml (721 words)

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