From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to ...

She said: “She was passionate about the natural world, particularly the sea world, her hero was David Attenborough. “She started diving a year before and immediately loved it. She described a deep ...

The three-ship fleet headed to a spot in the Gulf of California. On one of the ships was Alvin, a deep-sea submersible built like a space shuttle to withstand the enormous pressures of ocean depths.

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.