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In the Arabian Gulf - from Bahrain, and Japan amongst other places.

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The main reasons for people to have started diving at first would have been for food, pearl diving, sponges and shells. The desire to swim underwater for various reasons must have existed for as long as Mankind has swum. Pearl diving is still practised today in some locations in much the same way as they did in the beginnings of the history of Scuba in all its various forms.

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in the 1870s

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