A link to the past

In the 20^th century, the Arabian Gulf was one of the largest diving economies in the world where it had more than 1,000 pearling boats and employees majored in pearl diving reaching 20,000; in 1950 it nearly faded away when less expensive pearls became available to the public.

Gold stays gold as the old ones say; now two companies reconnect the past to the present by mixing them with tourism by forming Marine Environment Group (EMEG) by giving the people of the UAE and the tourist a taste of the past by diving to shallow ocean floors in search of their own pearls.

The creation of artificial pearls that was created in the Far East was a process that would finish overnight the local pearl industry; it became cheaper than the Arabian pearl which was elusive and very expensive once but now cheaper and that crashed the pearling economy in the Gulf Region.

Venturing for pearls can take up to a week in sea and the dhow held up to 300 divers; there are still pearls that are rare like the elusive pink pearl and the infamous black pearl.

 

 

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