Nature and nurture give Korea’s women divers, known as Haenyeo, an edge in deep-sea diving with high cold tolerance and low blood pressure. Laura is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She has a ...

Few aspects of nonfiction film are more enthralling, or even cinematic, than watching experts doing something expertly. When the performance is something you would never do yourself, it’s daunting.

‘The Last of the Sea Women’ Review: A Deep Dive Into an Underwater Korean Tradition Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional ...

Few aspects of nonfiction film are more enthralling, or even cinematic, than watching experts doing something expertly. When the performance is something you would never do yourself, it’s ...

In 1950, there were as many as 30,000 Haenyo on the island, in 2003 there were only 5,650 sea women registered as divers, of whom 85 percent were over 50 years old. This might be the last ...

Amal is not just an athlete or a diver, she is a voice-over artist, a social media personality, a teacher, a model, a motivational speaker, a driver, a padel player, a tennis player – an ...

Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, ... The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, ...

The haenyeo (“sea women”) dive and swim in the depths of the ocean ... And there’s a limit to how deep a human body can dive A substantial section of the film deals with Japan’s release ...

A Navy officer became South Korea's first female deep sea diver in the Navy's 78-year history, officials said, amid an ongoing push to broaden women's role in various areas of the military.

Director Sue Kim and producer Malala Yousafzai team for 'The Last of the Sea Women,' a documentary on South Korea's "bad ass" free divers.

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women ... A deep sea diver who ...

A vanishing way of life is captured in “The Last of the Sea Women.” Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju Island ...