The Sama-Bajau is a collective name for several groups of people in Southeast Asia. But they've captivated outsiders with enormous claim to fame: they live in the sea.

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 ...

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 ...