'Sea nomads' in Southeast Asia have evolved ability to dive deeper ...

Scientists think Bajau people of Indonesia's enlarged spleens give them the ability to hunt for longer underwater.

"Sea Nomads" May Have Evolved to Be the World's Elite Divers

New genetic evidence suggests these indigenous Southeast Asians are singularly suited for underwater hunting.

The Bajau are a seafaring population in Southeast Asia who have this adaptation. They can hold their breath for over 5 minutes, while highly trained divers from ...

How Asia's Super Divers Evolved for a Life At Sea - The Atlantic

She remembers diving with Pai Bayubu, who had already gone fairly deep when he saw a giant clam, 30 to 50 feet below him. “He just dropped down, ...

Diving Adaptations in Sea Nomads - HHMI BioInteractive

They are known to dive as deep as 230 feet without an oxygen tank. In this study, scientists investigated whether the Bajau's freediving ...

Seafaring people of Southeast Asia have evolved to dive deeper

They often live in flotillas of house-boats – earning them the nickname "Sea Nomads" – and their diet is mostly made up of fish and shellfish ...

The surprising trait of the deep-diving 'sea nomads' of southeast Asia

Ultrasounds conducted on members of the Bajau people — an ethnic group known for its skilled free divers — suggest the ability to hold your ...

A Tribe In Southeast Asia Have Evolved The Ability To Stay ...

The Bajau Laut, a sea-faring hunter-gatherer tribe with a 1,000-plus year history in the Southeast Asian islands, are known for their ...

Deep Diving Aquatic Nomads - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

A recent study [1] found that, a nomadic people [the Bajau], living in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, in Southeast Asia, may have ...

Larger Spleens Help Bajau “Sea Nomads” Dive - National Geographic

For hundreds of years, the Bajau have lived at sea, and natural selection may have made them genetically stronger divers.

Sea Nomads - An Example of Freediving Evolution

The statistics back this up: in August 2013 during a diving competition held for the Bajau people, one diver reached a massive seventy-nine ...

Mystery of sea nomads' amazing ability to freedive is solved | Science

Scientists have uncovered the secrets of the Bajau people, long-famed for their ability to hold their breath for extraordinary lengths of ...

News: Mystery of sea nomads' amazing ability... (The Guardian) - NLM

The free-diving Bajau people of Southeast Asia, or “sea nomads,” can hold their breath for minutes at a time – thanks to genetics and their unusually large ...

Physiological and Genetic Adaptations to Diving in Sea Nomads

The Bajau people, often referred to as Sea Nomads, have lived an entirely marine-dependent existence, traveling the Southeast Asian seas on ...

Diving deep on one breath could be in a 'sea nomad's' DNA - CNN

The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known to many as “sea nomads,” are renowned for their amazing diving abilities. Some can hold their ...

The tribe that evolved to stay underwater longer – BBC REEL

Scattered through Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Bajau are a semi-nomadic tribe of fishers with extraordinary freediving ...

Deep-diving 'sea nomads' have evolved an internal scuba tank - CBC

Researchers have found that a community of people known as "sea-nomads" in Southeast Asia have enhanced diving abilities thanks to natural selection working to ...

Enlarged spleen key to diving endurance of 'sea nomads'

Over hundreds if not thousands of years, however, a group of Southeast Asian “sea nomads” known for their deep-diving prowess has evolved a ...

The Secret To Deep Diving May Lie In The Spleen

Researchers investigate how the Bajau people of southeast Asia — aka "sea nomads" — can spend so much time under water without scuba gear as ...

Physiological and Genetic Adaptations to Diving in Sea Nomads: Cell

Another system, yet to be explored, is humans who engage in breath-hold diving. The indigenous Bajau people (“Sea Nomads”) of Southeast Asia ...