Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, gathering abalone, ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

Trained and genetic differences could help the women survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...

She learnt to freedive into the sea to harvest seafood like the 'sea women' of Jeju Island. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could ...