On South Korea's largest island, Jeju Island, a group of women free-dive into frigid waters year-round to harvest food from the seafloor without using any special equipment. They dive down to ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large spleens. Even Bajau people who don’t dive seem to share this trait, ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.

These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, collecting sea urchin, abalone and other seafood from the ocean floor, descending as much as 60 feet (18 meters) beneath the surface multiple times ...

The haenyeo (“sea women”) dive and swim in the depths of the ocean without any breathing gear, harvesting seafood like conch, urchin and octopus, which they sell to support their families.

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 ...