This Southeast Asian Tribe is Full of Actual Superhumans

Diving into It

The reason that the Bajau Laut tribe has houses on the water is so they can rest and eat in between sessions of diving. Strong members of the tribe will take boats, called “lepa-lepa” in their common tongue, out on the water and dive to enormous depths to collect fish and mollusks to resell when they return to shore. That is the existence of a member of the Bajau Laut tribe, they wake up early, dive deep into the ocean, head to shore to sell their extremely rare goods, and return back again the next day. But how do they do this?

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