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Photographer Peter Ash Lee’s book “The Last Mermaid” documents a group of women living in South Korea renowned for their abilities to freedive and harvest seafood.
[4]: 100 Originally, diving was an exclusively male profession, with the exception of women who worked alongside their husbands. [4]: 101 The first mention of female divers in literature does not come until the 17th century, when a monograph of Jeju geography describes them as jamnyeo (literally "diving women"). [4]: 101
Professional mermaids will often swim in live, filmed, or photographed productions or shows and can be hired for special events. Nonprofessional enthusiasts swim in tails at their local pools if the pool allows it, lakes, rivers, and seashores, or take part in mermaid-themed photo shoots, birthday parties, or mermaid meetings with other Mers.
Despite being included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, today they hover around 3,200 today. Haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island in “The Last of the Sea Women.”
[citation needed] In Japan, women were considered to be superior divers due to the distribution of their fat and their ability to hold their breath. [6] The garments of the ama have changed throughout time, from the original loincloth to the white sheer garbs and eventually to the modern diving wetsuit. Pearl diver with headscarf, 1935
You could call her a professional mermaid of sorts. One woman risked her life to swim with some of the most dangerous sea creatures in the world. Dressed in only a tiny costume with no diving gear ...
100 Women (BBC) (2023) Zandile Ndhlovu is a South African ocean conservationist, social activist, and filmmaker who is the first black female freediving instructor from the country. She is the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation .
In 2015, she broke the Guinness World Record for females on March 14, 2015, diving for 50 metres under the ice in 2 °C cold water of Lake Päijänne, while only wearing a swimsuit and mask. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On the 18th of March 2021 Nordblad set a new under ice swimming record by diving 103 metres in Lake Ollori under 60cm thick ice without ...