participants are taught traditional pearling and diving methods to harvest real oyster shells from pearl beds (hiraat) in the depths of the Arabian Gulf. On the scenic return journey, the newly ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

On the new Pearling Path, learn about Bahrain's pearl history, and even take a diving tour. It was a blazing November afternoon ... mounted on posts made from oyster-shell-flecked terrazzo. These ...