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For centuries, women on South Korea's Jeju Island have dived deep into the sea to harvest seafood to provide for their families. Called "haenyeo," which literally means “sea women,” they rely ...

South Korea’s Female Free Divers May Have Evolved to Thrive Underwater, Study Finds The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any ...

The Haenyeo women live their entire lives diving off Jeju Island, 50 miles south of mainland South Korea, spending hours each day harvesting seaweed, abalone, and other food items from the seafloor.

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 ...

Testing a diving superpower . Ilardo and her team compared 30 Haenyeo divers' genomes to the genomes of 30 non-Haenyeo people from the island of Jeju, as well as 31 people from mainland Korea.

For centuries, a community of women on South Korea's Jeju Island have been diving without oxygen, holding their breath for several minutes as they harvest seafood from deep under water.

A group of Haenyeo (women divers) walk on the beach after diving on Jeju Island, South Korea, November 19, 2023. Xinhua/Shutterstock Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Ilardo said it is not clear why the Jeju Island divers are all women, “but at some point, we think, it switched from men and women diving, which we see in many places in the world, to all women.” ...

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For pregnant women with sleep apnea, Ilardo said it's as if they unintentionally "dive in their sleep." But it appears the Haenyeo resist this phenomenon thanks to genetic mutations. Ilardo's group ...