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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 3

Though sharks generally are regarded as constituting the greatest menace to pearl divers of the South Sea Islands such is not always true. There is another monster of the sea which makes its home in oyster beds that causes more fatalities to divers than do sharks. Thiß animal is the giant clam, those huge shell-fish that frequently measure 14ft x Sft, and weigh half a ton. The serrated edges of these shells are sharp as razons. The clam reses on the bed of the reef, almost invisible, but for the dark, irregular line which marks the cruel, gaping lips poised ready to snap on the incautious foot that treads upon them. One can battle with other monsters of the sea, but this terror is merciless. There is no escape from its death-grip. There is a severed leg, but sharks smelling tho blood, soon would swarm in hundreds.