On Jeju Island, 50 miles south of the Korean peninsula, senior women regularly dive up to 60 feet beneath the ocean’s surface. They collect sea urchins, sea snails called abalone and other food—and ...

A group of women around 70 years old laugh and sing on a beach in Jeju, an island off South Korea, preparing to spend the day diving for shellfish. Moments later, they’ll plunge into frigid waters as ...

Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the day underwater, diving without scuba gear to collect abalone, octopus, kelp ...

The Haenyeo, or "women of the sea," are a group of all-women extreme divers who work off the coast of Korea. They have spent their entire lives free-diving as much as 60 feet under the surface in the ...

(CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...

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