As the remote tribe of the Bajau people can swim underwater for five hours a day with incredible footage showing their ...

SEMPORNA, MALAYSIA, Jan 8 (KUNA) -- In the water of Malaysia's Sabah state, the Bajau people, known as "Sea Nomads" embody a life of harmony with nature, with wooden boats and stilt houses built over ...

Known as 'sea nomads', the Bajau Laut tribe have lived at sea for more than 1,000 years. Their lifestyle has given them the ...

Melissa Ilardo, formerly of the University of Copenhagen and now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah, explains how her study of the extraordinary divers, the Bajau people of Indonesia ...

Living off the coasts of Indonesia for more than 1,000 years, the Bajau people live in houseboats, spending a high quantity of their lives in the sea. As expected, they're highly skilled when it ...

A recent study found that a nomadic people in Southeast Asia may have genetically evolved to be better divers. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the ...

The average person can hold their breath for 30 seconds. But Bajau people in Southeast Asia can hold it up to 12 minutes! Which comes in handy when they freedive over 230 feet for food.

The adaptation gives better endurance to the Bajau people, known as sea nomads, by increasing spleen size and, in turn, boosting the number of oxygenated red blood cells when diving. “This is a ...

A cornucopia of readily available ocean creatures that the Sampelan Bajau people can rely on when the weather is too bad to take to the seas. This isn’t going to settle down anytime soon.

Most Malaysians are not familiar with the traditional food of the Bajau people, an indigenous group inhabiting Semporna, Sabah, and parts of the Philippines. Known for their nomadic, seafaring way of ...

The Bajau can dive as deep as 70 meters without equipment, holding their breath for up to 13 minutes, a feat few can replicate. Similar to marine animals like seals, the Bajau’s adaptation ...