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 ...

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

A deep diving culture by a group of women from a South Korean island may have let them evolve genetically. A study shows potential for medical discoveries.

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.

Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional female marine-life harvesters on Jeju Island. Considering themselves “guardians of 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 ...

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 ...

When you think "U.S. Navy," do you think "badass women"? Because you should. Some of the most badass female sailors include a courageous a deep sea diver, astronauts who made significant ...