Female divers, known as haenyeo, take part in a campaign on the southern resort island of Jeju on May 18, 2025, to encourage voter participation in the June 3 presidential election in this photo ...

These women, whose plunge Ilardo captured on video, belong to a long line of female free divers on Jeju Island called the Haenyeo. They swam off, each with a net bag in tow, to collect seafood to ...

"Every day, they head out and get in the water, and that's where they work all day. I saw women over 80 diving off a boat before it even stopped moving." She and her colleagues wanted to know if ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may be genetically adapting to environmental extremes. Many women who grow ...

The Haenyeo, a group of all-female divers from the Korean island of Jeju, are renowned for their ability to dive in frigid waters without the aid of breathing equipment — even while pregnant.

A tradition of female diving on a South Korean island might have shaped the genomes of the island’s population, as well as the physiology of the divers 1. The Haenyeo — which means ‘women of ...

These women, whose plunge Ilardo captured on video, belong to a long line of female free divers on Jeju Island called the Haenyeo. They swam off, each with a net bag in tow, to collect seafood to ...

Two others followed her. These women, whose plunge Ilardo captured on video, belong to a long line of female free divers on Jeju Island called the Haenyeo. They swam off, each with a net bag in tow, ...