Pearl DIng of Today: The Diving Suit Pearl Trade
A long overview of modern pearl diving in Australian waters contrasts naked divers with climatic safety advances. It notes diving gear, hours underwater, key pearls like the Southern Cross, labor composition, and economics including licenses, duties, and monthly pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Pines
Indian Ocean
Persian Gulf
Ceylon
Australian
Torres Straits
Pearing
Bexmouths Gulf
King Sound
Western Australia
Manila
Barb
Australia
Lac- Spéde
Clark
Master Key and Sea Lore In Journal Excerpts
A collection of anecdotes and notes recounts the master key device used by builders, a Civil War era Merrimac memory, and various curiosities from Egypt to automobiled water travel. Pieces cover a locksmith’s master key, the ironclad Virginia and the Cumberland fight, and a man’s Bible from the Cumberland’s fo’c’sle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrimac
U. S
Congress
Cumberland
Newport News
Aidle
Norfolk Navy Yard
Dean
Thomas Kanam
Albany
N. Y
Insect Gestures and Animal Communication
An exploration of how insects use body language to convey vigilance and intention, including a sentinel ant’s movements near a trail to aphids. The piece notes humans may understand such signals as a form of nonverbal messaging, while suggesting ants themselves may not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sentinel
Harper’s Magazine
Nous of Commons
Pittsburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hubert
Quante’s
Ben Grewe
Broome
Treasury
Praing
Howard Dorchester
Graham
William B. Daley
H.C. Hemmenway
Hemmenway
Berlin
England
Egypt
Charles F. Sautter
Bay Ridge
New York
Sautter
Mother
St. Nicholas
Paris
Gold Coast
Lagos
S. H. Tweedell
Northport
Wash
Tweedell
Walter
International
North
Pole
Bae
Chicago News
Emperor Wujon
J. A. Sondermann
Her Ladyship Kitchen
Pewee
Ecar
Ferdinand Electric Light Co
Raross
Indianapolis, Indiana
The
United States
S. L. Goode
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