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 ...

Living off the coasts of Indonesia for more than 1,000 years, the Bajau people live in houseboats, spending a high quantity of their lives in the sea. As expected, they're highly skilled when it ...

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 average person can hold their breath for 30 seconds. But Bajau people in Southeast Asia can hold it up to 12 minutes! Which comes in handy when they freedive over 230 feet for food.

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 ...

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.

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Bilkuin Jimmysali, Enidah Mulsid and Shima Manan are barely out of their teens but they have been vested with the responsibility to provide basic education to the children of their Bajau Laut ...

KOTA KINABALU: Police are on the lookout for three Bajau Laut in connection with the murder of their neighbour who was alleged to have been forcibly snatched from his boat in Semporna district waters.