For South Korea’s Iconic Female Free Divers, Aquatic Abilities Are in the DNA: Study
About 50 miles off the coast of South Korea, a group of women — some of them in their 80s — start many days by free diving into frigid waters to collect conch, sea urchin, abalone, octopus, and other ocean dwellers for their communities to eat. Jeju Island’s Haenyeo, or “women of the sea,” are […]