Malala: How South Korea's 'real-life mermaids' made her want to learn to swim

Apple What if someone told you mermaids were real?Forget the fish tails, we mean women capable of holding their breath for minutes on end as they dive under the sea several hundred times a day.These are the haenyeo divers of South Korea, a community of women from Jeju Island who have been free-diving (without oxygen) to harvest seafood for centuries.Now, with most of them in their 60s, 70s and 80s, their…