J ust off South Korea’s southern coast lies Jeju Island, home to a community of women divers known as Haenyeo, or “women of the sea.” These women are trained at a young age in free diving into the ...

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.

‘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 ...

“The Last of the Sea Women,” produced and directed by Sue Kim, takes a deep dive into the lives of the haenyeos, the women of Jeju Island off the southern coast of South Korea who continue a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...