Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.

The Bajau tribe of Indonesia have become the first ... but also a unique genetic mutation - known as the 'sea nomad gene' - that also aids in their diving ability. They have extra large spleens.

UK-native James Morgan was studying photography in London when he read about a group of sea-faring Southeast Asian nomads who had survived ... Morgan decided to document the Bajau Laut, who ...

Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.

For over 1,000 years, the Bajau people have lived almost entirely at sea, floating in houseboats and hunting beneath the waves like real-life aquatic hunters. Bajau free divers plunge 230 feet ...

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 ...