Rhiannan Iffland of Australia won the women’s high diving gold medal on Saturday at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Bronze went to American Maya Kelly, the first American female ...
From the Maldives to Indonesia, more women are scuba diving than ever before—and expanding access for others to experience ...
A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island, which sits some 50 or 60 miles off the coast of South Korea. Before the vessel had even ...
(CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...
A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...