{"id":36699,"date":"2014-04-01T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36699"},"modified":"2014-04-01T05:16:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:16:43","slug":"pearl-divers-of-japan-my-best-diving-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36699","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Divers of Japan:  My Best Diving Experience!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>diving with the amasan&#8217;s was the best experience in my life.  it&#8217;s always been a huge dream and when people ask me how it was, i just say &#8220;amazing!&#8221;  i shot a lot of photos and i plan to hold on to it forever because i know there won&#8217;t be any more amasan&#8217;s remaining.  it&#8217;s a part of japan culture that is fading away and i&#8217;m hoping to get one more session with these grandma&#8217;s before they decide to retire.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5349-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5349-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5349 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36700\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nlook at their weight belt!!!  omg, if a normal person strapped that on and went diving, they would never make it back to the surface.  and these grandma&#8217;s don&#8217;t even use fins!!  omg!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5454-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5454-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5454 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36701\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthey walk underwater like they are walking in the vegetable store picking up tomatoes.  i would go down at the same time, hold my breath, take these photos, and as i run out of breath and go up to the surface, i look down and the grandma&#8217;s are still walking around.  it was amazing!  they&#8217;ve been doing this their whole life and are living mermaids.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5618-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5618 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36702\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2 full bags of abalone in 1 hour of diving.  my experience will live on forever.  and next time i go to wakayama, i&#8217;m going to take the 3 hour drive back up the coast, visit the grandma&#8217;s, and hopefully they will be doing what they love to do, free diving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>diving with the amasan&#8217;s was the best experience in my life. it&#8217;s always been a huge dream and when people ask me how it was, i just say &#8220;amazing!&#8221; i shot a lot of photos and i plan to hold on to it forever because i know there won&#8217;t be any more amasan&#8217;s remaining. it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1002,1003,1004,1005,1006,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-36699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-amasan","8":"tag-freediving-japan","9":"tag-japanese-pearl-divers","10":"tag-pearl-grandma","11":"tag-taiji","12":"tag-wakayama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}