How Many Japanese Pearl Divers Come To Australia
. Seventy-five years ago hundreds of Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War II after being interned as enemy aliens. Japanese immigration to Australia under the white Australia policy.
The Asian divers leave. In Australia the harvesting of pearl shell began millennia ago with the Aboriginal peoples of north-western Australia. Their diving ritual would often begin by downing a bottle of port before donning their cumbersome vulcanised canvas suits and massive bronze helmets after which they would be lowered over the luggers side.
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Japanese people in Broome were interned during the Second World War. Their diving ritual would often begin by downing a bottle of port before donning their cumbersome vulcanised canvas suits and massive bronze helmets after which they would be lowered over the luggers side. About a third were divers working in the pearling ports of Broome Darwin and Thursday Island. During the 70s a more efficient method for pearling was developed doing away with the heavy diving equipment used up to then.
