[HN Gopher] Women of the sea: Korea's oldest free divers
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Women of the sea: Korea's oldest free divers
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 91 points
Date : 2021-11-21 13:58 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| eatonphil wrote:
| Random tip for New Yorkers here: there's a great restaurant in
| Park Slope Brooklyn named after them, Haenyeo, on 5th Ave and
| Carroll Street.
| tyre wrote:
| One of the best restaurants in the area. Actually, one of the
| best restaurants I've been to in NYC.
| rdtwo wrote:
| Seems like it's not needed now that scuba gear I is Cheap
| reliable and readily available. Why risk it.
| rp1 wrote:
| I have some extended family who alive along a rugged expanse of
| the pacific. The after there is amazing wild. There is all
| types of sea life living in the rocky outcrops and kelp forest.
| My family there free dives to get abalone with a dull metal
| knife. Watching them do it is crazy. You begin to worry after
| they've been down a long time. There is no economic incentive
| for them. They just like to do it.
| NikolaeVarius wrote:
| 1) Scuba Gear is expensive
|
| 2) Scuba Gear requires maintenance
|
| 3) Scuba Gear requires a compressor which is more expense and
| maintenance.
|
| 4) You can free dive all day and not have to a damn about
| decompression times (exceptions occur for very aggressive
| repeated deep drives, which is not happening here). This is
| untrue for Scuba
|
| 5) Clearly there is a cultural component to this.
| hashamali wrote:
| Unrelated to the article itself, but the design of this page on
| mobile is a beautiful experience.
| toufka wrote:
| Patagonia made a little short (13m) about Jeju. Definitely worth
| watching:
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| https://youtu.be/r4jLplyxXqI
| feels0ng wrote:
| I saw a TV program covering this professions and had a couple of
| few young ladies who jumped into this profession, but that was
| pretty much it. They were desperately recruiting. Their earnings
| are pretty good, but still there are potential dangers.
|
| My grand father escaped from Jeju when he was in early 20s. I
| wish he was still alive, so I could ask about the history. I have
| relatives, but always interesting to read these articles about
| people living in the area.
| getoj wrote:
| Unfortunately no mention of the equivalent Japanese tradition of
| _ama_ [1], identically named in Chinese characters (Hai Nu )
| though much older - the first records of female _ama_ are from
| the Heian period, whereas _haenyeo_ as female divers appear to be
| a more recent phenomenon.
|
| I am sure there are a number of interesting comparisons to be
| made and probably some historical connection between the two.
| However, these kinds of cultural similarities between Japan and
| Korea are rarely discussed, probably due to the nationalist
| animosity between the two countries.
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving)
| Borrible wrote:
| Tough old mermaids.
|
| They inherit the job from their mothers.
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| They used to dive while pregnant, often through the whole
| pregnancy.
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| For generations.
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| And up to a ripe old age
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| They may have inherited more physical characteristics.Could come
| in handy with rising sea levels
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| It is a bit sad that the profession is dying. And with it
| probably the physical characteristics.
| emodendroket wrote:
| Frankly it seems like a needlessly dangerous practice to
| continue.
| Borrible wrote:
| Yes, but those surviving maybe special.
| traeregan wrote:
| > It is a bit sad that the profession is dying. And with it
| probably the physical characteristics.
|
| Freediver here. As humans, and more importantly mammals, we're
| all surprisingly adaptable from a physiological perspective.
|
| Check this out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
| Borrible wrote:
| https://source.wustl.edu/2021/07/moon-to-engineer-
| microbes-t...
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