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.

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 ...

On South Korea's largest island, Jeju Island, a group of women free-dive into frigid waters year-round to harvest food from the seafloor without using any special equipment. They dive down to depths ...