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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lonely Bahrein Island, off the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, is a hot, humid desert, inhabited mostly by Arabian pearl divers and British and American oil drillers. Its airport on nearby Muharrak Island is a stopover for Air France planes on the Saigon-Paris run, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Tragic Coincidence? | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Bill Brooks, freshman swimming coach, will fly to Bermuda Thursday, where for the 15th summer he will be the official swimming coach. Partial duties include the direction of the International Swimming Week in which American swimmers, divers, and water polo teams will compete.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks to Bermuda | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

Duck & Work. It was a treasure to tempt any Scot, and in 1641 the Marquess of Argyll, head of the Clan Campbell, got King Charles to grant him the rights to fish for it. The MacLeans, however, were not giving up that easily. They built a stone fort on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasure in Tobermory | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Last week, with the assistance of the Royal Navy, which insisted that its only interest was in training divers and locating the exact site of the wreck, the Argylls were at it again in Tobermory Bay. The time had come, the eleventh Duke decided recently, to make "a really serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasure in Tobermory | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Clinkers & Scallops. Meanwhile, 65 feet down, his divers probed the bay floor with powerful hydraulic jet drills and huge vacuum-cleanerlike suction pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasure in Tobermory | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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