As the remote tribe of the Bajau people can swim underwater for five hours a day with incredible footage showing their ...

The Bajau are capable of diving as deep as 70 meters without sophisticated equipment, armed only with stone weights and wooden goggles. Their ability to dive so deeply and for such long periods ...

So it makes sense that by having a larger spleen, Bajau people have a genetic advantage when swimming underwater. Dr. Ilardo said: "There's not a lot of information out there about human spleens ...

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.

Scattered through Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Bajau are a semi-nomadic tribe of fishers with extraordinary freediving skills. Research has shown that their anatomy has evolved to ...