The Bajau Laut (also known as Sea Gypsies) are nomadic seafaring people who traditionally live on boats and stilt houses in the waters around giant island Malaysian Borneo, Sabah, the Philippines ...

Known as 'sea nomads', the Bajau Laut tribe have lived at sea for more than 1,000 years. Their lifestyle has given them the ability to stay underwater for very long periods of time. Travel reporter ...

The Bajau tribe, dubbed real-life Aquamen, dive 230 feet without oxygen. With enlarged spleens and superhuman breath-holding, ...

T he Bajau, an Indonesian tribe living on floating homes off the coast, have developed exceptional diving abilities that allow them to plunge into the depths of the ocean. These extraordinary ...

First published in 2018 in the research journal Cell, a group of scientists highlighted the indigenous Bajau people (“Sea ...

They sent me to school and tried to give the best time of exposure and experiences outside of school as well. Now as an adult, I don’t think I could have asked for a better educational experience ...

From a pufferfish feast with Asia's "super divers" to a secret hangover cure reveal, BBC's Discovering the World's Table sees Nick Kwek journey to his ancestral homeland in Malaysia.

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.

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 ...

Réhahn says that although they're not recognized as part of any neighboring countries, the sea gypsies choose to live in "their own little paradise." ...

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.

BBC's Discovering the World's Table sees food writer Nick Kwek journey to his ancestral homeland of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, where he eats pufferfish with the Bajau Laut sea nomads, learns the ...