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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

What is more astonishing about these women is their age. Most of them range from 60 to 80 years old, and they still dive for ...

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 ...