A group of women around 70 years old laugh and sing on a beach in Jeju, an island off South Korea, preparing to spend the day diving for shellfish. Moments later, they’ll plunge into frigid waters as ...
An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...
On Jeju Island, 50 miles south of the Korean peninsula, senior women regularly dive up to 60 feet beneath the ocean’s surface. They collect sea urchins, sea snails called abalone and other food—and ...
A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman who spent her teenage years at Memphis city pools is making a big splash in the scuba diving world. Corhonda Dawson has been scuba diving for over a decade, and her underwater ...
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