Filipino divers disappear into water as opaque as chocolate milk as they blindly dig in search of gold trapped in muddy sediment. It's risky business: As miners go deeper, underwater tunnels could ...
SANTA MILAGROSA, Philippines – Brian Mullaton is 13 years old and makes his living by diving into deep, muddy holes. He works on a floating wooden platform in shallow Mambulao Bay in what is one of ...
In the Philippines, people desperate to make a living dive into muddy waters in makeshift mines in search of gold. The job is hazardous, the returns are paltry and they say their work is illegal. But ...