Dr. Melissa Ilardo

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Yeah, absolutely. And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist. Noted. Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo. They are a group of what's called sea nomads.

Yeah, absolutely. And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist. Noted. Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo. They are a group of what's called sea nomads.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely. And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist. Noted. Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo. They are a group of what's called sea nomads.

And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist.

Noted.

Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo.

They are a group of what's called sea nomads.

So sea nomads are these people who spend their whole lives essentially at sea traditionally. They live on houseboats and everything they need they get from the sea. And they do this through fishing, of course, and other things like that, but also through an incredible amount of breath hold diving. So they're extremely good at this. They can hold their breath for many minutes at a time.

So sea nomads are these people who spend their whole lives essentially at sea traditionally. They live on houseboats and everything they need they get from the sea. And they do this through fishing, of course, and other things like that, but also through an incredible amount of breath hold diving. So they're extremely good at this. They can hold their breath for many minutes at a time.

So sea nomads are these people who spend their whole lives essentially at sea traditionally.

So sea nomads are these people who spend their whole lives essentially at sea traditionally. They live on houseboats and everything they need they get from the sea. And they do this through fishing, of course, and other things like that, but also through an incredible amount of breath hold diving. So they're extremely good at this. They can hold their breath for many minutes at a time.

They live on houseboats and everything they need they get from the sea.

And they do this through fishing, of course, and other things like that, but also through an incredible amount of breath hold diving.

So they're extremely good at this.

They can hold their breath for many minutes at a time.

They dive to incredible depths. A lot of them wear these jewelry made of black coral. Black coral only starts growing at about 100 feet deep, so that tells you how deep they're diving.