There are people who are specialized in an art such as apnea. An exercise that consists of holding most of the time underwater while holding one's breath. The average time a person ...

Known as the “sea gypsies,” the Bajau Laut are among the last true marine nomads. For centuries, they have lived almost ...

A deep diving culture by a group of women from a South Korean island may have let them evolve genetically. A study shows ...

The Bajau tribe off the coast of Indonesia was the first known humans to develop a genetic mutation that helped them adapt to free diving at depths.

Known as 'sea nomads', the Bajau Laut tribe have lived at sea for more than 1,000 years. Their lifestyle has given them the ability to stay underwater for very long periods of time. Travel ...

The average person can hold their breath for 30 seconds. But Bajau people in Southeast Asia can hold it up to 12 minutes! Which comes in handy when they freedive over 230 feet for food.

For over 1,000 years, the Bajau people have lived almost entirely at sea, floating in houseboats and hunting beneath the waves like real-life aquatic hunters. Bajau free divers plunge 230 feet ...

A cornucopia of readily available ocean creatures that the Sampelan Bajau people can rely on when the weather is too bad to take to the seas. This isn’t going to settle down anytime soon.

Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.