Mr. Rashid was one of the guides for an annual pearl-diving expedition, a trip the organizers call a simple attempt to connect young Kuwaiti men with their largely forgotten past. Every year since ...

Young men used to an easy life and air conditioning returned to Kuwait City after a pearl-diving expedition. Moises Saman for The New York Times KUWAIT CITY - Every year since 1986, in the ...

Think again. Why not venture to the northernmost region of the United Arab Emirates, to the capital city of Ras Al Khaimah, and go diving for pearls in the Persian Gulf? Impossible, you say?

And though the pearl will never lose its luster, even more romantic is a pearl-diving trip to Tahiti, where the moon-like gems populate the island's surrounding ocean floors. The French Polynesian ...