Japanese Pearls & Gulf Pearl Diving

[@pollyeet]

Growing up in the UAE, we learnt about the pearl diving industry and the death of it in social studies. It's something that also moulded the UAE's outlook on oil as well.

[@jonasghafur4940]

yup, i can only imagine the paranoia that ensues when you’re going through a period of wealth on the basis of a finite commodity the second time around. Serves them well though i think, they are making a genuine effort to reframe Dubai as a new age media city and thus a tourist destination, much moreso than the saudis. The Emirate has a genuine stab at prosperity beyond fossile fuels, they’ll just have to invest their money wisely,

[@pollyeet]

@@jonasghafur4940 Thing is it also depends on the emirate. Each emirate has a different strategy to meet the issue. For example, Dubai has a strong focus on tourism, logistics and trade and media, and recently also manufacturing. Especially with the new emiratisation policy its trying to achieve something closer to Singapore or better yet Germany. Even investing heavily in education and artificial intelligence. Idk how effective the latter is though. Abu Dhabi has gone full on in the manufacturing, artificial intelligence and education sectors with policies to ensure security with energy away from fossil fuels especially with the masdar initiatives. Ras Al khaimah has always had the strategy of slow steady growth. Being also the first place in the gcc to have open bottle shops and implementing thought out policies for social and industrial growth. It's one of the few places in the middle-east with a high concentration of glass manufacturing plants. Sharjah has the policy of become a centre of Islamic and education. Being the more conservative emirate and choosing to approach the problem much like Oman has. Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain are the relatively poorer emirates but have strategies to develop in supporting the logistics and access for the other bigger emirates. Finally, Ajman, being the smallest emirate focuses on commerce and corporate growth. Slow and steady is the name of the game for them as well.

[@khalidalali186]

أيام حصة الاجتماعيات والتربية الوطنية ههههه صحيح

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@leonjeremiahjoanes5997]

Same here in kuwait. We also studied the pearl industry.

[@islammohamed1441]

I had no idea the pearling industry had been so central to livelihoods in the Gulf. An interesting episode in history.

[@JTA1961]

Me either

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

I first heard of this on the Wonderful World of Disney TV Series and the specific program Hamad and the Pirates. It started on a Bahrain pearl diving boat. This was in the early 1970s.

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

I first heard about Gulf pearls from a documentary film for British Imperial Airway's London to Sydney route from the 1930's.

[@Peter2k84]

Same

[@khalidalali186]

Oh dude, I’m from Abu Dhabi, and let me tell you. My great-grandfather went from a guy owning 6 dhows, to dhow-sharing one with 40 other men, to just make ends meet, during the pearling season, between May-September, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, which coincided with the commercial success of cultural pearls by 1928. He passed-away in June of 1999, and he saw it all. I’ll never forget how much he appreciated things like AC, water bottles, and cold showers. He was born in the empty quarter during winter, spent his life diving for pearls, was tough as nails, and would join merchants on trips to India, Yemen, and East Africa. He witnessed WWI in Iraq and Syria, lived through the Great Depression and WWII impacts on Arabia, saw the end of slavery, when the British forces the local Sheikhs to abolish it, was there on March 28th, 1958, during the first gush of oil, helped transport the first barrels for export in 1966, saw the British leave, and lived through the unification by December of 1971, the Gulf War, and lived through the oil boom. He was a Pearl diver, merchant, camel rider, horse whisperer, mechanic, driver, oil-rig worker, and finally, a maintenance worker. He started working at the age of 9, believe it or not, which was very common throughout the world, not just our neck of the woods. He sure saw it all. We still have video tapes of his conversations of the old days. We probably have 680-minutes worth of footage. I think it would be worth digitalizing one day, and uploading them over KZbin with subtitles for all to see. What do you guys think?

[@tdb7992]

There was a big Japanese population in the North West of Australia who were mostly employed in pearl diving too. Towns in that part of the country often have Japanese cemeteries.

[@bobgroves5777]

Yes. It was at Broome, Western Australia. See here: www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/japanese-divers-broome

[@johnstirling6597]

The industry and divers still exist in WA but they are all farmed, the biggest companies are Paspaley and papasley, ( same family, different companies).

[@RIZFERD]

Funnily Australia was ours Indonesia before British came and stole it just with Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, then The Philippines stolen by Spaniards

[@afujimoto3843]

"It's a gem, haha" This is why I watch Asianometry, for the bad puns.

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

Can’t wait to see what the video about rubys will be like. Top notch I’m sure.

[@RIZFERD]

Lol, that's why Japanese wanted Southeast Asia and Australia so bad. Australia was part of Indonesia before British came so is with Singapore, Malaysia/Brunei, and The Philippines by Spaniards. Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@dndboy13]

Dogs and Chickens, the natural antagonist of the oyster

[@pauloconci4196]

Dont forget the women

[@RIZFERD]

Lol, that's why Japanese wanted Southeast Asia and Australia so bad. Australia was part of Indonesia before British came so is with Singapore, Malaysia/Brunei, and The Philippines by Spaniards. Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

Never had any interest in oysters or pearls and yet this was an interesting video. I bet you could make a video about paint drying interesting.

[@vivenna]

Fascinating! I have often wondered why Japanese pearls are so affordable comparatively to their quality. Akoya pearls also have a beautiful luster which makes it very easy to distinguish from plastic pearls. Hearing about their history makes me appreciate my pieces even more, especially the one Mikimoto that I own

[@raul_jocson_]

The requirement for "women not approaching the pearl mussels" was probably established by some guy whose wife kept throwing out his weird shellfish experiments in their backyard. He's was like "just trust me on this."

[@Dirtnap90]

I honestly figured they just meant keep the oysters in a quiet area lmao

[@BRUXXUS]

🤣

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@UnconsciousCompetence]

Thank you for this look into the cultured pearl industry. For a fascinating first hand account of the last of the pearl divers in the late 1930s, I highly recommend the book The Sons of Sinbad by Alan Villars. Last few chapters of this book are spent with the pearl divers, and gave a great first-hand account of their work. Without a doubt, one of the most entertaining books ever written.

[@GeneralThargor]

That was absolutely fascinating, I have no idea how or why you choose this topic but I'm very glad you did, I was only going to watch the first 5 minutes and I couldn't look away.

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@eliavrad2845]

12:20 "François Xavier d'Entrecolles" is the most French name I've ever heard.

[@westrim]

It's really sad how many historical wars are ultimately about resources (not just "want their stuff/land/labor/revenge/they took our bucket) that are at best irrelevant and at worst simply got replaced by a different supply today. Silkworms are so abundant I bought a jar of them for 10 bucks at a bug fair, the Haber process produces abundant nitrogen fertilizer, and so on. Say what you will about modern/ predicted resource conflicts, at least water and oil are versatile

[@ryanward10]

Maybe there's something dark inside people that wants to conquer, enslave, oppress other humans. Maybe pearls, revenge, or having the wrong opinion are just excuses concocted to do what they wanted to do anyway.

[@darnit1944]

Isn't land basically a resource too?

[@armamentarmedarm1699]

yes. It is part of the motivation for Ukraine on the NATO side.

[@ihmpall]

Humans are territorial violent animals with a large brain.

[@idrathernot_2]

​@@armamentarmedarm1699Black Rock and other companies bought land and rights at a fraction of their real values, and now the Western governments have to bail them out through war.

[@shaider1982]

Intresting how the Japanese dominated the pearl industry decades before the electronics industry.

[@RIZFERD]

That's why they wanted Southeast Asia so badly... Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@TV-Inkorgen]

Superbly done and structured. Very good reader's voice and well-chosen images.

[@Runningr0se]

I was not interested in this video at all but gave it a shot and I’m glad I did. Asianometry is good at that.

[@connorballentine]

I love how much effort you put in your videos!

[@okman9684]

Soon the Gulf's oil industry will end after the ethanol and ev industry. This time also east Asia is the reason

[@ahmednadim5859]

Can't fucking wait.

[@kaiskid5849]

You still need oil to make plastic

[@saxplayingcompnerd]

No it wont. This level of pure ignorance is unreal.

[@saxplayingcompnerd]

​@@ahmednadim5859ignorant

[@BRUXXUS]

@@kaiskid5849 From a quick search, only 4% of the entire oil supply goes towards plastics. That percent could keep going down with the rise in bioplastic r&d and production.

[@dewinmoonl]

great timing! I just bought a mikimoto pearl the other day and this is very insightful

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@terubokmasin3247]

A pearlescent insight! Thanks, Asianometry!

[@honumoorea873]

They also Killed it in Polynesia

[@Punisher9419]

I am surprised manmade diamonds haven't done the same, I guess there is just too much money there in real diamonds for that industry to collapse. Although it wouldn't be surprised if manmade diamonds where being sold as natural grown without anyone knowing. You can't really tell the difference unless in a lab.

[@mateobravo9212]

It's early days for synthetic decorative diamonds, isn't it? Give it a bit of time. I like the idea of making diamonds by using sequestered CO²

[@CRneu]

Manmade diamonds kind of already have. you can buy cheap diamonds already, the issue is that there's a massive conspiracy to keep diamond prices high, so a lot of folks wind up paying a lot. There's also the really silly idea that you must pay a lot for jewelry, otherwise it isn't something to wear. But you can absolutely find diamond jewelry that's 1/10th the cost of natural diamonds or less. In industry, synthetic diamonds have already changed the market significantly.

[@freddy4603]

@@CRneu I'd assume its also significantly influenced by the sunk cost fallacy. People who already invested in jewelry as a way to show-off their social status probably want to keep their investment worth it, and thus would _really_ not want cheap industrial diamonds to be seen as the same as the thing they paid thousands of dollars for.

[@AaronOfMpls]

@@CRneu Oh yah, industrial diamonds for abrasives and such got _way_ more common once they could be synthesized cheaply enough.

[@volbla]

From what i've heard the natural diamond mining industry is dominated by one big company, and they have lobbied to forbid synthetic diamonds calling themselves "diamonds", or something along those lines. I guess jewelers are too chicken to take the risk with a "different" product? Or maybe they can keep higher profit margins with the more expensive stock. It all seems very stupid.

[@GermanMythbuster]

*Please make a video about Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy. It's basically magic!* You can Identify chemicals through packaging like Paper, Glass, Plastic... And there are handheld units from Agilent! We life in the future man :D

[@RIZFERD]

You must be stuck inside your little world your entire life Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@mikestewart4752]

7:00 100 years later, in 1980, pearl necklaces had such a different image…

[@fajaradi1223]

It requires a totally different kinds of "mollusks". The shell less kind.

[@causewaykayak]

And so might the French Revolution be seen to have been betrayed. The triumph of the drawing room class. YUK.

[@errolneal9789]

Subbed! This is fascinating stuff. Human ingenuity and perseverance when it comes to making scientific discovery and progress, regardless of motivation never ceases to amaze me. I often wonder if the rate of this progress has slowed considerably because of current conveniences and the modern society in general (If that makes sense?).

[@shreyvaghela3963]

the reality is that after you hit a certain mile, the mileage started declining. as in rapid progress was possible because there was a lot of room to develop. after most things are discovered. you get slow rate of progress.

[@AaronOfMpls]

Depends where you look. Some areas of science and technology are pretty mature, and progress is relatively slow and incremental. Some have stalled out, because further progress is too difficult and/or expensive with current knowledge and tech. Meanwhile, still other areas are newly-discovered and progressing rapidly.

[@HaHaBIah]

Ahh yes, I vaguely remember about this when looking at the past of the gulf. Nice to see your take on it.

[@woolfel]

learned something interesting today. Not into pearls, but my Taiwanese grandmother and mom love pearls.

[@RIZFERD]

Lol, that's why Japanese wanted Southeast Asia and Australia so bad. Australia was part of Indonesia before British came so is with Singapore, Malaysia/Brunei, and The Philippines by Spaniards. Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@sg5184]

There's a few old lady's in Japan that still free dive for pearls

[@find2hard]

High quality content even when it isn't about semiconductors!

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@randompotato26]

thanks for the great content as always!

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

Intresting, the 75% covered starter is the key.

[@KatheHanna]

I appreciate you have empathy for the oysters themselves

[@archieames1968]

which is strange because they are practically mounds of tissue with no centralized nervous system. There is no reason to believe they feel even to the extent of a cockroach. You might be better off using that empathy for something more productive.

[@Napoleonic_S]

@@archieames1968 have you heard of that "controversial" paper that said that plants have death screams when plucked?

[@KatheHanna]

oh hush@@archieames1968

[@ChefHeisca]

Cant life be enough?

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@sagetmaster4]

Awesome video. Almost as good as the swimming fish robots

[@ntabile]

Mikimoto Pearls!

[@MrSongib]

Classic patent problem. We dont need that in the future. Stagnation and monopoly are what it's creates from it.

[@carlosbah4623]

3:06 whaaat? "The British seeing them as pirates"???? The pirate empire by definition seeing anyone as a pirate??? Wow world record hypocrisy...

[@mohd8218]

You missed out to mention the sharks in the water. Thanks for such a great video. Wished you dived more into a qassimi clan the british and how they have setup favourable rulers, who were sometimes pirates

[@hugocheng6243]

There were also a huge pearl industry in Taiwan when I was young, now only pearl tea industry left

[@williams.7314]

This is so cool. Thank you for doing all this research. How do you find out about these moments in human history? Are you an academic? Perhaps you simply hit random page in wikipedia?

[@judeffr]

IIRC he studied engineering

[@goodroach9984]

I think he would hit wikipedia for some inspiration, but I don't think he's directly reading off of it like other youtubers. This is because he often references papers and articles. Though this is just my guess and it's better to hear from the horse's mouth.

[@CRneu]

Patreon discussions guide a handful of his videos.

[@JTA1961]

If only they'd stayed away from... Pearl Harbor...🇯🇵

[@mumblesbadly7708]

Uhhh… A “father-in-law” is not a “step-father”.

[@saaaaaaaaaaaaaa121]

would have been interesting to have heard a little more depth on the (mostly japanese dominated) pearling industry in northern australia.

[@RIZFERD]

Lol, that's why Japanese wanted Southeast Asia and Australia so bad. Australia was part of Indonesia before British came so is with Singapore, Malaysia/Brunei, and The Philippines by Spaniards. Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@manofcultura]

So it wasn’t just the end of ottoman hegemony that fucked over the region.

[@stevengill1736]

Reminds me of the fates of sponge divers and red coral divers....

[@uncleelias]

A gem of a story. Hopefully, we all aren't swine.

[@heinzaballoo3278]

Excellent and fascinating video as always

[@bold810]

I was eating a peanut butter sandwich when you said "pearl necklace". It's okay I heimlich'd myself and feel much better now. 🎉

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

One of ZZ Top's best songs.

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

18:00 mr. Bean's nightmare 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sparqqling]

Natural grown diamonds are next, in a decade or two nobody even thinks about it anymore.

[@WalterBurton]

I appreciate the romance of pearl diving, but how come they never developed some sort of dredging technology? I'm thinking about the tongs that oyster fishermen still use today.

[@nagasako7]

Of course an Japanese udon shop figure out centuries old question how pearls are made

[@jannegrey593]

Some people can't accept that while Brit might have had a good insight and achievements of his own - it doesn't make it impossible for Japanese to invent something. And yes, spherical pearls using this method was a bit lucky, but that also happens in inventions.

[@jwadaow]

They wrote his contribution out of the story which he claims implies deception. It's not implausible that he did make the discovery as it was his area of interest.

[@jannegrey593]

@@jwadaow Of course it is not implausible. It's just annoying that so many people claim that he HAD to invent it. Because either racism or something different (politics, trying to overturn patent etc.) makes them to say that those Japanese guys couldn't have made it on their own. And this doesn't lessen his contribution - he was crucial to this invention - we know that and this is undisputed. But we don't know if he did invent it or not. We can't know - unless he did and Japanese keep record of that somewhere for some reason ;) If we can't prove or disprove it, it shouldn't be written as certain that he was the person behind the invention. Apologies for my atrocious English. Not only it isn't my first language, but it's also quite late here.

[@causewaykayak]

​ Sounds fair

[@SunnyIlha]

You just reestablished the worth of Arabic Sea pearls as the highest grade since your research has reset those as the Original Grade, and as such, qualifies those as those worth the most, since those are also the endemic origin species in-situ.

[@belcanto07]

Let's face it, you do not want to know how the Japanese dived for pearls before and even during Mikimoto's days.

[@mumblesbadly7708]

Those Persian Gulf states got their economic revenge on Japan by becoming major oil exporters, which much of their oil imported by Japan. 🤗😊

[@johnjohnson-ko7tg]

Blue yellow pink, whatever man just keep bringing me that

[@5anjuro]

This reminds me of the sci fi story i read as a kid where the Earth is visited by the aliens who have an inexplicable desire (and fine appreciation of) cow poop. Immediately a major industry grows out of nowhere catering to this sophisticated market.

[@ihl0700677525]

To the outrage of the climate activists who have to endure more cow farts.

[@4evertrue830]

I have seen videos online showing the natural way of getting pearls from sea clams. I think this means producing pearls from sea clams is still ongoing in Asia. Perhaps it has been revived when people got dissatisfied with using artificial pearls in jewelry, which reduces the value of the jewelry 🤔.

[@ihl0700677525]

I think the demand for the natural ones never really gone. Just like some people still buying natural gem/diamond even tho most of the diamonds in the jewelry are man-made now. People often get sentimental over something like this. We still desire the inferior thing even when the superior alternative could be bought at cheaper cost, for sentimental reason.

[@bearpham565]

Hey what about the USA Pearl necklace industry popular in the 80 😂 there even a hit song about it 😮

[@fredo1070]

Fascinating documentary.

[@fons_ssb3351]

Great video!

[@arifahmedkhan9999]

They teach this in the Khaleej gulf nations. They don't say the Japanese connection but rather only their own perling experience

[@gregw1076]

This video is making my subwoofer rumble like microphone wind noise, sounds like a high pass filter on the audio might be a good idea (up to 120Hz, or 80Hz?)

[@alpaykasal2902]

Hey, your arabic pronunciations aren't bad!!! Pretty good, in fact!

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

One can still obtain Natural Persian Gulf pearls.

[@tuqe]

You gotta work on reducing mic sounds

[@swell07_]

i prefer the imperfections over AI creepiness 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@gus473]

First time I listened on something other than my phone, and it was noticeable....

[@tuqe]

@@swell07_ dont get me wrong, im happy to have a real human talking to me, but it sounds like someone is tickling my eardrum with a feather

[@amandahugankiss4110]

Those three things are known to be noisy. Dogs, chickens, and women. They all too loud. :)

[@nouffahad4692]

Saudi Arabia are trying to recover their heritage of pearling

[@agrantharrison472]

"The British saw them as mere pirates...." [said with contempt]. So, what you're suggesting those pirating pirates, in an area known for being infested with pirates, weren't' in fact pirates? Or were they 'mostly peaceful' pirates? Sorry mate, either the Brits did a good thing clearing that hell-hole of pirates, or they didn't.

[@randomhuman5525]

Brits was pirates.

[@PlutoPlanetPower]

Amazing content as always, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention that it's cultured pearls and not cultural pearls.

[@anasevi9456]

Persian gulf is a tropical sea and has many coral reefs; have corals that are the most resistant to heat bleaching on the planet. Waters in the summer will go up to 32c or even higher, and 'cold' SST in winter is around 25-26c even over 3 metres deep. Cold to the locals used to it being like a bathtub most of the year, but downright balmy to any of us whom ever went the beach in summer at higher latitudes. Great video, the great pearling industry might be done... but am sure real Persian Gulf pearls likely command a premium over farm raised.

[@britzman9905]

It’s Bah-RAIN. Like summer rain. I had a cat named purrs from Bahrain. She was the color of a pearl and she liked to purr a lot.

[@R32R38]

Is it true that the first Japanese pearl divers were women, who dove topless?

[@nexusyang4832]

Damn. Learned something new today. 😮😮😮😮

[@PeterT-i1w]

The Japanese? Those sandal-wearing goldfish-tenders?

[@syedmaricar9946]

😮 Bahrain, Qatar, UAE,were kept nations going for the day. Also gulf on the other side near Yemen , Red sea people lived simple Life exploited by portugal other's.

[@herp_derpingson]

Who is here after being shamed in the latest video?

[@amandeepjohal2587]

Arabian Sea and Persian gulf are two different bodies of watef

[@keymot1491]

He’s talking about the Arabian gulf not The Arab sea

[@jandoubal5476]

What river creatures in China's rivers can kill the diver?

[@Aeyo]

Awesome 👌

[@mumblesbadly7708]

Uhhh… Those artificially pearls are “cultured” pearls, not “cultural” pearls.

[@MithunOnTheNet]

It's pronounced Bah-RAIN (reYn). I grew up there, so it pains me to hear you pronounce it as "Bah-RAAAN".

[@martinmacdonald5773]

Try getting the name of the body of water correct. Historically and internationally its name is the Persian Gulf.

[@keymot1491]

Man it’s the Arabian Gulf, Arabs live on its both coasts, weather its Al-Ahwaz and Arabistan in the East coast or Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the west coast

[@keymot1491]

The biggest coast on the Arabian Gulf is Saudi Arabia😅 Yet this rhetoric makes it seem irrelevant to the Gulf while Al-Ahsa a Saudi city, is known as the Gulf Capital

[@TheGreatAtario]

"Bah-hron"?

[@SafeAndEffectiveTheySaid]

If Wikipedia tell us one thing then the truth is totally the opposite to me

[@keymot1491]

I know you are trying to be respectful, but it’s the Arabian Gulf

[@gryff8400]

how many watching in 2024 because of the Abu Dhabi fab video? 😉😅

[@shnam13]

Me 🙋

[@jakedill1304]

Chinese Pearl creation... Or... No bitches allowed... For... Reasons...

[@the-quintessenz]

Correction at 3:25 It's "What the British allowed them to do." #NotAllEuropeans...

[@jwadaow]

Not the only or primary empire in the region.

[@mateobravo9212]

Quite right, old boy. Smashing.

[@keymot1491]

Just cuz the Portuguese were weak enough to get cooked by the native tribes in Arabia doesn’t mean they weren’t as bad as Britain

[@monsieurlemon]

"colonizers"

[@RIZFERD]

Here in Indonesia we just throw them away 😅😂 Stop talking about exhausted UAE oil 😅😂 No one interested to come there along with ghost city concrete jungle Dubai yet world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569 by west + middle east belittling Indonesia since, while in reality Indonesia The Emerald of The Equator is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world, our oil and gas only are much more than whole middle east. Complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood I speak fluent formal Arabic too, aside Dutch and so many other languages. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.

[@ReevansElectro]

4:27 "The journey would be christened with ceremonies." Are you sure??? These were Muslims. It is almost implausible that they "christened".

[@David-eq8wf]

It is Persian Gulf not Arabian Gulf. This is the historic name of the Persian Gulf. There is no such thing as an Arabian Gulf

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

its called persian gulf for a reason