pearl diving

His body was twisted from the long years of pearl diving in the past.

Its economy depended on the pearl diving season, which took place during the long summer months.

The tribe used to be involved in the lucrative pearl diving industry.

He was also critical of attempts to finance pearl diving.

Instead, they depended on their fishing skills and pearl diving.

(The pearl diving season usually lasted 20 - 30 days, around March).

At the same time, the pearl diving industry developed at a rapid pace.

The backbone of the economy was palm cultivation, fishing and pearl diving.

Kuwait was a relatively poor country with an economy reliant on declining trade and pearl diving.

These included pearl diving (there are no pearls in Bermuda) and ambergris.

Pearl diving offered an additional source of income.

Kuwait was a centre for ship building and pearl diving and fishing were important commercial activities.

Other reforms include the abolition of slavery, while the pearl diving industry developed at a rapid pace.

Australia also has one of the world's last remaining fleets of pearl diving ships.

"That's known as pearling, or pearl diving," she said.

Q:Guts is quite extraordinary, to the extent that my wife suspected the last ("pearl diving") section might be a true story.

"I have some pearl diving to do."

Pearl diving was in open water, and initially without breathing apparatus; many divers were taken by sharks or got the bends.

Hal had read about pearl diving.

Pearl diving used to be a significant economic activity for Palawan until the advent of plastics.

Fishing, palm tree farming and pearl diving were the traditional economic activities of the Baharna.

The major harbour of Thoothukudi is well known as a pearl diving and fishing centre.

Despite the hardship, at its peak in 1929 better than one in five of the islands' 100,000 people worked in the pearl diving industry.

The adjoining Diving Village offers exhibits on pearl diving and fishing.

The boom of Pearl Diving helped mold the family's reputation in Bahrain.