By Captain Bobbie Scolley, U.S. Navy (ret.) and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.) For more than six decades, spanning from 1905 to the late 1970s, the U.S. Navy’s diving apparatus for deep ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Committee announced today the participants in the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Diving Championships. The women's ...

First, the team assessed physiological traits related to diving in women from three populations: Haenyeo in Jeju, non-Haenyeo in Jeju, and non-Haenyeo from mainland South Korea. The researchers ...

The Haenyeo, a group of all-female divers from the Korean island of Jeju, are renowned for their ability to dive in frigid waters without the aid of breathing equipment — even while pregnant. A study ...

Last Saturday, the women’s swim and dive team hosted the annual Colby-Bates-Bowdoin (CBB) Championship at LeRoy Greason Pool.

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 ...

On Jeju Island, 50 miles south of the Korean peninsula, senior women regularly dive up to 60 feet beneath the ocean’s surface. They collect sea urchins, sea snails called abalone and other food—and ...