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A community of women on Jeju Island, sometimes in their eighties, earn their living by diving into the sea up to 10 m, without oxygen masks, to fish for seafood such as abalone or sea urchins. With their knowledge of the sea and marine life, Jeju’s haenyeo (divers) fish for up to seven hours a day, 90 days a year, holding their breath for one minute on each dive and producing a unique sound as they return to the surface. You can see them fishing and you can then eat the fish fresh out of the sea!
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