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We’re here in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, to meet Arenthia Baker, one of few Black women freedivers and mermaids (with a heavy emphasis on the latter; she’s a certified mermaid through the ...

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.

The Ama are female freedivers who have gathered pearls, lobsters and shellfish in Japan's coastal waters for millennia, and who feature heavily in local folklore. There were some 6,000 of these "women ...