SPONGE DIVERS
Most of the diving for sponge* j, done by men who wear no dirinr clothes at all, and whose star unde the water is very short at each visit When they dive they take with then a heavy stone and this serves two pun poses. Being attached to a rope trhkt passes through a ring on the ini's wrist it enables him, after waiklir about and gathering sponges for son. distance all round, to return to the stone, and thus reach the spot beimtl the boat from which he is workbg. But in addition to this useful purpose the stone also enables a diver to direr his course through the water to thr spot where the sponges he is titer sn growing. When he holds the stone * a tilt to the right he goes through the water in that direction; when to the left in that direction, and when the stone is held straight above him he goes down in a direct line with hit boat. The sponges are gathered by hand. This method is the best, fori: enables a man to work on an irreguhr sea bed. which a mechanical diver cannot do. and the sponges are we damaged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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202SPONGE DIVERS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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