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.

Sure, a pink mother-of-pearl dial and rows of useless diamonds ... And Doxa still makes the big, heavy, dive tools anyways, if you want them. To learn more, visit Doxa.

Apart from these, a few interesting tools are also taken along. Al Suwaidi and his pearl farm definitely takes one back to the days of pearl diving, giving each visitor a story to remember.

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.

Traditional and ancient means and tools were used in fishing and pearl diving, which gives the children participating in the competition an opportunity to discover their maritime heritage and the ...

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 ...