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, ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. Twenty-five years ago, avid diver Margo Peyton had a dream: To ...

Sue Kim first encountered the inspiration for her new film “The Last of the Sea Women,” which arrives Friday on Apple TV+, when she was an 8-year-old from a Detroit suburb vacationing with her family ...

Ever seen someone dive for lobster with just their lungs? Meet Japan’s Ama divers—iconic free-diving women who harvest abalone, clams, and lobster straight from the ocean floor. Today, we learn their ...

Dr. Nevada Winrow, CEO and Founder of the Black Girls Dive Foundation, says she was destined to love water. Her mom was taking her to swim classes at the YWCA before she was even a year old. “That's ...

By Captain Bobbie Scolley, U.S. Navy (ret.) and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.) For more than six decades, spanning from 1905 to the late 1970s, the U.S. Navy’s diving apparatus for deep ...