Atlas Lost Some Shells

[jshepherd]

This story is unfortunate. Atlas farms primarily white South Sea pearls in Indonesia. The company was run by Joseph Taylor, one of the top pearl culture experts in the world.

http://www.ragtrader.com.au/news/extraordinary-mishap-at-atlas

 

[Ramona]

I am not sure what the definition of "lost" is. Lost as in "they died during transport"?

 

[GemGeek]

Dead. How sad.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

That is a lot of oysters. Very unfortunate!

 

[pearlescence]

As a profits warning from a listed company to a stock exchange, as reported, it is extraordinary. The problem was not mechanical or human the chairman says. Some passing vengeful pearl god..or perhaps spite by the oysters themselves?

 

[lisa c]

On the Sincere side - This reminds me of the interview Josh Bazar did with Justin Hunter, the portion where Justin is looking over the tangle of nets and dead critters, just gut wrenching.

The problem was not mechanical or human That leaves biological agents or liars. I'm so glad I'm not the owner - of the oysters, the ship, the insurance company and the guilty conscience.

On the SmartAlek side perhaps spite by the oysters themselves? Well, the ship had been operating "stressfully" for years ... maybe the ship had a rep in the oyster-world.

 

[Josh]

$400,000 loss? They'll shake it off like it was nothing I'm guessing. Atlas is one of the (possibly THE) most successful pearling operations of today. They operate in Indo where costs are a fraction of what they are in Australia or Tahiti.
And 32,000 oyster gone missing? Really? We lost probably three times that amount the year the oysters started to get eaten in French Polynesia. We have a neighbor who had an entire 200m line (about 30,000) get eaten in one night.
But yes absolutely, like Blaire says above, how sad. That's a lot of mollusc misery.