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(vi) Changed weather conditions.

During the Inst five years wind conditions
have altered. The "Bara" forty days wind,
used to blow before the diving began, gradually
it has started later and it now blows during
the diving season with the result that for many

days the sea is too rough for diving. The
main season cannot be altered as it is settled
to coincide with the time that the sea becomes

warm and therefore it starts ten days later
every year.
These are the reasons to which the depres­
sion is attributed to locally.
Cultured pearl case.

12. Khalil Bakr, a Qattar pearl merchant
trading in Bahrain, was found guilty of contra­
vening the cultured pearl regulations. The

case caused widespread interest not only in
Bahrain but in all the diving communities
throughout the Gulf. The last case of a

similar kind wa3 in 1348 when Abdullah AlZaid
was sentenced by the Bahrain Court on a similar
charge.