A delicate, iridescent pearl takes over two years to form. The nearly six-millimetre pearl in the above video did too. The UAE's only pearl farm in Ras Al Khaimah invites visitors to witness the ...

and matching pearls or whole sets of matching pearls were more valuable than one pearl alone. Today, Jassim uses scuba gear for recreational diving but still has his traditional tools on display.

These tools helped divers descend to the seafloor ... a testament to the difficulty of finding one of the gems through pearl diving. “You only find one pearl in every 10,000 oyster shells.

Of the ancient tradition of pearl diving dating back to the great port city of Korkai, the capital of early Pandya kings some 2,200 years ago, hardly 10 brave men survive. “There are only seven ...

Jassim, now 87, was among the last of the country’s professional pearl divers. “Our journey would take three to four months,” he said. “We [would] eat, drink, sleep only on the boat.” ...

150 young divers embark on the 33rd Pearl Diving Commemoration Trip aboard four ships. KUWAIT CITY, Aug 10: The 33rd Pearl Diving Commemoration Trip, organized by the Marine Heritage Committee of the ...