Sue Kim first encountered the inspiration for her new film “The Last of the Sea ... of Korea: It’s very tropical, it’s beautiful, it’s coastal.” There, she saw the women divers known ...

They dance in wet suits to Korean pop hits or dive ... women and men dived together. There are various theories about how haenyeo became a woman's profession. Some stories say that the men's haul ...

Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers, called ama, are employed in daily foraging for food on the bottom of the sea. Their performance is of particular interest to the physiologist ...