Dr. Melissa Ilardo

It is. Yeah. I'm trying to remember what the current world record is, but it's also, I mean, you have to think about if you see them diving, like it's incredibly active. So a lot of the breath hold records that we think of are people floating in a pool. They're not moving. They're not expending any energy. They're not using up that oxygen as quickly.

Yeah.

I'm trying to remember what the current world record is, but it's also, I mean, you have to think about if you see them diving, like it's incredibly active.

So a lot of the breath hold records that we think of are people floating in a pool.

They're not moving.

They're not expending any energy.

They're not using up that oxygen as quickly.

And these sea nomads are, when they're underwater, they look like hunters on land. They go deep enough that they're not floating anymore. And so they're walking on the surface of, you know, the bottom of the ocean with their spear guns and they look like hunters. It's incredible to see.

And these sea nomads are, when they're underwater, they look like hunters on land. They go deep enough that they're not floating anymore. And so they're walking on the surface of, you know, the bottom of the ocean with their spear guns and they look like hunters. It's incredible to see.

And these sea nomads are, when they're underwater, they look like hunters on land.

And these sea nomads are, when they're underwater, they look like hunters on land. They go deep enough that they're not floating anymore. And so they're walking on the surface of, you know, the bottom of the ocean with their spear guns and they look like hunters. It's incredible to see.

They go deep enough that they're not floating anymore.

And so they're walking on the surface of, you know, the bottom of the ocean with their spear guns and they look like hunters.

It's incredible to see.

It's very impressive. Yeah.

It's very impressive. Yeah.

It's very impressive.

It's very impressive. Yeah.

Yeah.

They do, yeah. And in fact, they spend so much time traditionally on these houseboats and so little time on land that a lot of the children actually learn to swim before they learn how to walk. So one of the divers, when I was out there, one of my colleagues noticed that one of the diver's feet was very soft. And we realized that it's because he's never really walking.