The Bajau Laut are a Southeast Asian people that have lived for centuries in the seas around Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Bajau make their living spearfishing and selling to Hong ...

But a group of people called the Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes at depths of around 200 feet. These nomadic people live in waters winding ...

The Bajau subsist by gathering shellfish on the sea floor In a striking example of natural selection, the Bajau people of South-East Asia have developed bigger spleens for diving, a study shows.

More than 500 people from the Bajau Laut, a mostly stateless sea-faring community who live on rickety houseboats or coastal huts built on stilts, saw their homes demolished or burned by ...

A tribe of nomadic fisher people in Indonesia have adapted to dive deeper and longer than any other humans thanks to a specially-evolved “sea nomad gene”, experts say. The Bajau tribe have ...

The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known to many as “sea nomads,” are renowned for their amazing diving abilities. Some can hold their breath for minutes at a time, plunging dozens of meters ...

A genetic abnormality known as the "sea nomad gene" allows an amazing tribe of fish people known as Bajau to hold their breath underwater for 10 minutes in order to spear meals. Larger spleens ...