For South Korea's youngest 'sea women', warming seas mean smaller catches | Life

Monday, 19 Apr 2021 02:41 PM MYT
Woo Jung-min, 35, a haenyeo, also known as a ‘sea woman’, poses for a photograph with sea cucumbers that she harvested in the sea off Geoje, South Korea, March 31, 2021. — Reuters pic
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GEOJE, April 19 — Clad in a black wet suit and pink face mask, Jin So-hee’s figure cleanly parts the green-blue water until she abruptly dives below the surface, her purple fins disappearing into the deep.
When she resurfaces a minute and a half later, her gloved hands grip six or seven sea cucumbers, their spiked backs glistening in the sun.

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