S Korean ‘haenyeo’ fear sea warming
Reuters, GEOJE, South Korea
Clad in a wet suit and diving mask, Jin So-hee’s figure parts the green-blue water until she abruptly dives below the surface, her fins disappearing into the deep.
When she resurfaces one-and-a-half minutes later, her gloved hands grip six or seven sea cucumbers, their spiked backs glistening.
“This is the biggest one. What do we do?” she asks her partner, Woo Jung-min. “The boss is going to be mad. He told us to bring in the really big ones today.”
Senior haenyeo, also known as “sea women,” sell seafood they harvested at the port in Busan, South Korea, on April 6.