How’s your eyesight? Good? Fair to middlin’? How’s your eyesight underwater with no diving mask on? How about if I told you there may be a way to gain a bit of improvement in both above-water and below water environments? An improvement that calls for a remarkably short time investment on your part? Stay with me as we learn a thing or two from the Moken. The Moken [literally “sea people” or “sea nomads” or “sea gypsies”] are an Austronesian people that inhabit the 800 some odd islands of the Mergui Archipelago that are claimed by both Burma and Thailand. The Moken garner almost their entire livelihood from the Andaman Sea. You may have read about them in the pages of National Geographic or seen them in videos making lengthy hunting dives free of breathing apparatus, diving fins, or diving masks. Images of them moving agilely about on the sea floor are beautiful and inspire wonder [and a bit of envy in this viewer.] The human eye has evolved to ...
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