The next day we were taken by bus to see Paspaley’s engineering operations back in Darwin.
This place is big.
Here is one of their special working boats being built. Look at those welds! They carry the washing and x-ray equipment.
We are shown the automatic oyster washing machine. You can see the orange basket being drawn across the top. The cover is closed and jets of pressurized water clean the oysters as they pass through the machine.
They use a specially made x-ray setup to check the pearl nacre growth, again, by drawing the baskets across the table.
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