Environmental Graffiti

The Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea

They may look like regular folks frolicking in the water on a hot summer's day, but they're really much more remarkable than that. They're the Moken, a people who are born, live and die traveling the Andaman Sea around Southern Thailand and Burma. They can dive up to an incredible depth of 75 feet with only a pair of goggles, and they know how to read the signs of the mighty ocean, enabling them to find higher ground before anyone else knew that the 2004 Tsunami would hit.

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