EThey have been diving, coming up and diving again for centuries. Freediving, in search of precious abalones. or from Japan, like their Korean sisters, the haenyo, embody a kind of real legend, that of daughters of the ocean living in harmony with each other and with it, piercing the surface of the water day after day towards the abyss. They have been painted on prints (Hokusai), celebrated in poems (since the 8th century)e century), told in novels (The tumult of the waves, Mishima, for example) and captured by the lenses of many directors and photographers sometimes too exotically fascinated by these fisherwomen once almost naked and armed with a steel blade to tear shells from the depths. The patient, deep, complicit work that they have given them…
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