IN QUEST OF PEARL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3999, 4 August 1915, Page 5

IN QUEST OF PEARL.

Diving for shell, and incidentally for the . little treasure of peon it *'• ,|,een estimated that one shell m a thousand contains « came on in deeper water oil 1 hursda.N Ishii d than anywhere else, (fc P*} he.ds lie comparatively sli.il ow 1 Persian 'Gulf, the Hulu Seas, the Gnl of Ala invar'. The greatest depth at which a diver in helmet am dress eau perform any sort of usefu h>b< mid to he 182 feet. At that depth I! Spanish diver raised £9OOO m sdvej liars from a wreck oft Junisteue. A,rm f eo t an English diver salved £50.(100 from a wreck off }>oef off the'Chinese coast. 1 lie max - „ ,lentils of ISO fret, where the operar t on is a distvessfut ami pei'ileiis one fsavs Harper’s- Magazine). A P atl 1 iml' law prohibits diving Uiyond J specified depth of safety ; hut as ■ courts hrve held that f diver must act ualT’ he seen at that denth. d anybody is to he held amenable, and as 1- he reefs, are remote Horn arn .PV ... tical scheme of, supervision it .s a hvw of small consequence,_ aflci. alI, a the perilously deep diving goes mi. no - doubt, liiuli as before, with its occasional issue of sudden death.