Australian cliff diver Rhiannan Iffland sparked online controversy after heading down a waterslide which was unsuitable for ...

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

ElliReese Niday, 13, became one of the youngest divers in history to earn a senior U.S. title, winning the women’s platform ...

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

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.

Nature and nurture give Korea’s women divers, known as Haenyeo, an edge in deep-sea diving with high cold tolerance and low blood pressure.

It’s unclear at what point it became a women-only activity, but theories include a tax on male divers or a shortage of men, Ilardo said. Still, diving is so integral to Jeju’s population that ...

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 ...