Boys Diving Honolulu (1901)

In the background is a row of threemasted sailing ships at anchor their sales furled In the foreground a simple pier thats more like a yardarm juts out above the water about 15 boys of six or seven years of age are on the jutting wood and they jump off into the water below The water looks to be about three feet deep They swim back toward the pier A small motorized boat passes Its a stationary camera one take