Tag: sea
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Russian man rescued after 67 days adrift in stormy Sea of Okhotsk
A Russian man has been rescued in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew were dead, officials said on Tuesday. The prosecutor’s office in the far east of Russia said the man was rescued by a…
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…