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 ...

Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, gathering abalone, sea urchins and octopuses. According to UNESCO, members of the group ...

SEOUL – For centuries, women on South Korea’s Jeju Island have dived deep into the sea to harvest seafood to provide for ...

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 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their 60s from South Korea, a watermelon vendor in Indonesia ...

Tang became China's first woman scientist to accumulate both deep-sea-diving and polar-expedition experiences. She descended to a depth of 2,774 meters, in the western Pacific Ocean, while aboard the ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...