The Bajau subsist by gathering shellfish on the ... "For possibly thousands of years, [they] have been living on house boats, travelling from place to place in the waters of South-East Asia ...
including the West Coast Bajau and East Coast Bajau, and are renowned for their traditional boat-building skills, particularly with their lepa-lepa and bogoo boats. While many Bajau have ...
Living on boats and fishing as a means of living is typical in Salih’s community. Bajau Laut are not just reliant on the ocean, they are biologically adapted to it. They have larger spleens than ...
KOTA KINABALU: A palau (Bajau Laut) recalled a harrowing fishing experience in the waters off Semporna years ago when a blast at sea left his boat sinking and resulted in the loss of his arm due ...
To most people, Salih’s free diving skills are highly unusual; but not to his community. Salih is Bajau Laut, an indigenous seafaring group in Southeast Asia that has lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle on ...