The Haenyeo community’s remarkable traditions have endured throughout generations, specifically their skill in diving without equipment such as oxygen tanks.
Mandatory Credit: Peter Ash Lee
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Spellbinding photos capture the ‘mermaid’ divers of South Korea
After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for harvesting seafood from the ocean floor without scuba gear, photographer Peter Ash Lee said one conversation — with one of the youngest of the island’s “freedivers” — stood out from the rest.
