A group of "haenyeo" -- female divers who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without using breathing equipment -- collects shells and marine life in waters off South ...

Translated to English, haenyeo means «mermaid.» The divers are on average 70 years old. They spend several hours a day collecting mussels, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and snails on the seabed ...

For the past 1000 years, on the remote South Korean island of Jeju, the sisterhood of Haenyeo divers have sustained themselves by hand-harvesting a variety of sea life. In a changing world where ...

Sue Kim’s documentary dives deep into the culture of the haenyeo, the South Korean deep sea divers who have been harvesting seafood for their communities for centuries. It can be seen on Sept.