Topless mermaid pics - Ama

As technology progressed, the Ama communities were faced with decisions — adopt new tools and equipment or retain traditions? Of those, 973 nearly half work in either Toba or Shima city, Mie prefecture.

Some of them more than 100 years ago discovered the Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest analog computer.

A little note though: In japan female divers were non existent as men were the only ones allowed to do that until the 19th century.

Since the Meiji era, divers wore goggles for clarity and from 1964, rubbery, black wetsuits were introduced.