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.

A diver from Jeju Island: a Haenyeo (woman of the sea) photographed circa 1954 ... They sometimes work as deep as 65 feet below the surface, pushing the limits of human endurance.

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 ...

The Haenyeo -- literally "sea women" -- divers live on Jeju Island, 53 miles (85 km) south of the South Korean mainland. From adolescence, they train to deep dive to harvest food from the seabed.

Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around ... You may like The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, and they all have the ...

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 ...

SEOUL, 2 September (BelTA - Yonhap) - 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 ...

Despite glimpses of undated archival footage, history doesn’t get much attention in “Sea Women.” There is no mention of how such diving hereabouts dates back as far as the 5th century A.D ...

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 ...