The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the ...

The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

Visitors walk along a trail at Yongmeori Beach in the city of Seogwipo on South Korea's largest island of Jeju on April 25 ... to a dragon's head going underwater, is made of sandstone stacks ...

The findings of their investigation, published in the scientific journal Cell Reports on 2 May, uncovered unique genetic differences the Haenyeo have evolved to cope with the physiological stress of ...

Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju Island off South ... staying underwater up to three minutes.

These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, collecting sea urchin ... spending really an extraordinary percentage of their time underwater.” Ilardo, along with colleagues in South Korea ...

A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island ... said getting in the ocean, being underwater, that's diving.

On the island of Jeju, resourceful haenyeo 'sea-women' have braved riptides harvesting urchins and other shellfish to put food on the table. Born from volcanic fury, Jeju Island in the far south ...

Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional female marine-life harvesters on Jeju Island ... staying underwater up to three minutes.