Female divers, known as haenyeo, take part in a campaign on the southern resort island of Jeju on May 18, 2025, to encourage ...

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold water diving involving their blood pressure and cold ...

Photograph by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images A ... in 2003 there were only 5,650 sea women registered as divers, of whom 85 percent were over 50 years old.

One year after appearing in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, Houston diver Alexa Massari is chasing a new career outside ...

A Haenyeo diver swims to catch turban shells and abalones on Nov. 6, 2015. There was one problem: "You can't take 70-year-old women who have never been diving and throw them in the open ocean ...

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 ...