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A group of Japanese skin divers or 'Amas' enter the water near the small fishing village of Onjuku in the Chiba prefecture of Japan, August 1959. They will fill their tubs with the seaweed they harvest. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A group of Japanese skin divers or 'Amas' enter the water near the small fishing village of Onjuku in the Chiba prefecture of Japan, August 1959. They will fill their tubs with the seaweed they harvest. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)