Pearl Diver - Pearl Diving Action

Play Pearl Diver for free at GreatWebGames.com. Grab your mask and head for the sea bed. Collect as much treasure and pearls as you can and get back to the boat before your air runs out. This is free diving so first you must fill your lungs with aire before making your dive. Watch out for the sharks! Pear Diver is an action packed pearl diving game from Miniclip.

The Dangers of Pearl Diving

Before the beginning of the 20th century, the only means of obtaining pearls was by manually gathering very large numbers of pearl oysters (or pearl mussels) from the ocean floor (or lake, or river bottom). The bivalves were then brought to the surface, opened, and the tissues searched. More than a ton were searched in order to find at least 3-4 quality pearls. In order to find enough pearl oysters, free-divers were often forced to descend to depths of over 100 feet on a single breath, exposing them to the dangers of hostile creatures, waves, and drowning, often as a result of shallow water blackout on resurfacing. Because of the difficulty of diving and the unpredictable nature of natural pearl growth in pearl oysters, pearls of the time were extremely rare and of varying quality.