• Ama physiology

    From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 5 14:35:58 2024
    From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Primum Sapienti on Mon Feb 5 23:01:02 2024
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

    From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

    Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in winter, I
    suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the adaptation.
    When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the proof that you
    are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be adapted, you
    wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so hard for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever you've been told,
    you will not be able to understand anything with your own mind, anyway.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Mon Feb 5 15:16:04 2024
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

            Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so hard for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever you've been told, you will not be able to understand anything with your own mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Primum Sapienti on Tue Feb 6 02:10:44 2024
    On 5.2.2024. 23:16, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

             Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in >> winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the
    adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the
    proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be
    adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so hard
    for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever
    you've been told, you will not be able to understand anything with
    your own mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

    No, this doesn't mean that they dive in winter. The guy separates
    "diving women" and "non diving women". Diving women dive, and do this
    for living, but it isn't said whether they dive whole year, or only when
    waters are warmer. One would presume that they don't dive when waters
    are too cold. "Non diving women" on the other side, can dive
    recreationally, but they are not doing it as a job.
    Ok, I took a look at Wikipedia.
    First, it is women who are doing diving (as opposed to men), because
    they have better fat distribution than men. So, fat has the major role
    here. It is known that men have muscle tissue, while women have fat.
    Second, it is said that there is a diving season. So, they are not
    diving whole year long. One would presume that the season is in
    favorable conditions, not in winter.
    Third, in Wikipedia they say that those women actually lose weight
    during diving season. Which could be because of physical strain, since
    they probably don't work as hard out of the season.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Mon Feb 5 18:32:12 2024
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 23:16, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

             Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in
    winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the
    adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the
    proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be
    adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so hard
    for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever you've
    been told, you will not be able to understand anything with your own
    mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

            No, this doesn't mean that they dive in winter. The guy separates
    "diving women" and "non diving women". Diving women dive, and do this for living, but it isn't said whether they dive whole year, or only when waters are warmer. One would presume that they don't dive when waters are too
    cold. "Non diving women" on the other side, can dive recreationally, but
    they are not doing it as a job.

    Follow the link.

    "By and large the divers wear minimal clothing,
    often only a loincloth, during their work in
    the water. Even in winter the Korean divers wear
    only cotton bathing suits. In Japan some ama
    have recently adopted foam-rubber suits, but most
    of the diving women cannot afford this luxury."

    "Even in winter"

    "In the last analysis the amount of time one can
    spend in the water, even without holding one's
    breath, is limited by the loss of body heat. For
    the working ama this is a critical factor,
    affecting the length of their working day both in
    summer and in winter."

    "in winter"

    "In both seasons at the end of a single diving
    shift (40 minutes in the summer, 25 minutes in
    winter) the deep-body temperature was found to be
    reduced from the normal 98.6 degrees F. to 95
    degrees or less."

    "in both seasons" "in winter"

    etc

            Ok, I took a look at Wikipedia.

    This wiki article (just to be clear)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving)

            First, it is women who are doing diving (as opposed to men), because they have better fat distribution than men. So, fat has the major role here. It is known that men have muscle tissue, while women have fat.

    aa says they should really fat.

            Second, it is said that there is a diving season. So, they are not
    diving whole year long. One would presume that the season is in favorable conditions, not in winter.

    Yes, they are. That wiki page says

    "The ama were expected to endure harsh
    conditions while diving, such as freezing
    temperatures and great pressures from the
    depths of the sea."

    "freezing"

            Third, in Wikipedia they say that those women actually lose weight
    during diving season. Which could be because of physical strain, since they probably don't work as hard out of the season.

    Which is what I said. aa says the fat is supposed to
    keep them warm. It doesn't if that activity means they
    lose it.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Tue Feb 6 02:27:57 2024
    On 6.2.2024. 2:10, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 23:16, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:
     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

             Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in
    winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the
    adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the
    proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be
    adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so
    hard for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever
    you've been told, you will not be able to understand anything with
    your own mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

            No, this doesn't mean that they dive in winter. The guy separates "diving women" and "non diving women". Diving women dive, and
    do this for living, but it isn't said whether they dive whole year, or
    only when waters are warmer. One would presume that they don't dive when waters are too cold. "Non diving women" on the other side, can dive recreationally, but they are not doing it as a job.
            Ok, I took a look at Wikipedia.
            First, it is women who are doing diving (as opposed to men), because they have better fat distribution than men. So, fat has the
    major role here. It is known that men have muscle tissue, while women
    have fat.
            Second, it is said that there is a diving season. So, they are
    not diving whole year long. One would presume that the season is in
    favorable conditions, not in winter.
            Third, in Wikipedia they say that those women actually lose weight during diving season. Which could be because of physical strain,
    since they probably don't work as hard out of the season.

    OK, I found out, diving season is strictly from March to 14th of
    September. They don't dive in winter.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Primum Sapienti on Tue Feb 6 04:15:44 2024
    On 6.2.2024. 2:32, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 23:16, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

             Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in
    winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the
    adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is
    the proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't
    be adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so
    hard for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe
    whatever you've been told, you will not be able to understand
    anything with your own mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

             No, this doesn't mean that they dive in winter. The guy
    separates "diving women" and "non diving women". Diving women dive,
    and do this for living, but it isn't said whether they dive whole
    year, or only when waters are warmer. One would presume that they
    don't dive when waters are too cold. "Non diving women" on the other
    side, can dive recreationally, but they are not doing it as a job.

    Follow the link.

    "By and large the divers wear minimal clothing,
    often only a loincloth, during their work in
    the water. Even in winter the Korean divers wear
    only cotton bathing suits. In Japan some ama
    have recently adopted foam-rubber suits, but most
    of the diving women cannot afford this luxury."

    "Even in winter"

    "In the last analysis the amount of time one can
    spend in the water, even without holding one's
    breath, is limited by the loss of body heat. For
    the working ama this is a critical factor,
    affecting the length of their working day both in
    summer and in winter."

    "in winter"

    "In both seasons at the end of a single diving
    shift (40 minutes in the summer, 25 minutes in
    winter) the deep-body temperature was found to be
    reduced from the normal 98.6 degrees F. to 95
    degrees or less."

    "in both seasons" "in winter"

    etc

             Ok, I took a look at Wikipedia.

    This wiki article (just to be clear)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving)

             First, it is women who are doing diving (as opposed to men),
    because they have better fat distribution than men. So, fat has the
    major role here. It is known that men have muscle tissue, while women
    have fat.

    aa says they should really fat.

             Second, it is said that there is a diving season. So, they >> are not diving whole year long. One would presume that the season is
    in favorable conditions, not in winter.

    Yes, they are. That wiki page says

    "The ama were expected to endure harsh
    conditions while diving, such as freezing
    temperatures and great pressures from the
    depths of the sea."

    "freezing"

             Third, in Wikipedia they say that those women actually lose >> weight during diving season. Which could be because of physical
    strain, since they probably don't work as hard out of the season.

    Which is what I said. aa says the fat is supposed to
    keep them warm. It doesn't if that activity means they
    lose it.

    Ah, I didn't bother with your link, since I saw it is from 1967., but
    it looks like it is pretty detailed. Well, my info is recent, and I
    believe it is about Korean ama. Anyway, I will not bother about it
    still, it is pretty clear that SC fat is for aquatic purposes. I mean,
    as far as I can tell, all those amas are women. Which doesn't explain everything (since ama diving wasn't economical, men would do something
    that is economical), but explains enough. You don't know much about SC
    fat, go and read something, it is absolutely clear that it is for
    aquatic lifestyle. And it isn't you that I am worried about, this should
    be absolutely clear to scientific community, yet it isn't, and this is
    what makes people like you to behave like you behave.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Mon Feb 5 22:05:37 2024
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 6.2.2024. 2:32, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 23:16, Primum Sapienti wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 5.2.2024. 22:35, Primum Sapienti wrote:

     From 1967

    Quite a number of interesting facts.

    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf

    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan

    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Their performance is of particular interest
    to the physiologist

    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst. "

    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."

    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3,000 kilocalories, whereas the
    average for nondiving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2,000
    kilocalories per day."

    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than nondivers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, pmticularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although nondivers do
    not)."

             Of course, you misunderstood everything. They don't dive in
    winter, I suppose. Their SC fat works better because they have the
    adaptation. When you have adaptation to some environment, this is the >>>>> proof that you are adapted for that environment. If you wouldn't be
    adapted, you wouldn't have the adaptation. I know that this is so hard >>>>> for you to understand, so, don't even try, just believe whatever
    you've been told, you will not be able to understand anything with
    your own mind, anyway.

    Yes, they DO dive in winter. It even says so in the
    paragraph right above:

    "in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat"

             No, this doesn't mean that they dive in winter. The guy >>> separates "diving women" and "non diving women". Diving women dive, and
    do this for living, but it isn't said whether they dive whole year, or
    only when waters are warmer. One would presume that they don't dive when >>> waters are too cold. "Non diving women" on the other side, can dive
    recreationally, but they are not doing it as a job.

    Follow the link.

    "By and large the divers wear minimal clothing,
    often only a loincloth, during their work in
    the water. Even in winter the Korean divers wear
    only cotton bathing suits. In Japan some ama
    have recently adopted foam-rubber suits, but most
    of the diving women cannot afford this luxury."

    "Even in winter"

    "In the last analysis the amount of time one can
    spend in the water, even without holding one's
    breath, is limited by the loss of body heat. For
    the working ama this is a critical factor,
    affecting the length of their working day both in
    summer and in winter."

    "in winter"

    "In both seasons at the end of a single diving
    shift (40 minutes in the summer, 25 minutes in
    winter) the deep-body temperature was found to be
    reduced from the normal 98.6 degrees F. to 95
    degrees or less."

    "in both seasons" "in winter"

    etc

             Ok, I took a look at Wikipedia.

    This wiki article (just to be clear)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving)

             First, it is women who are doing diving (as opposed to men),
    because they have better fat distribution than men. So, fat has the
    major role here. It is known that men have muscle tissue, while women
    have fat.

    aa says they should really fat.

             Second, it is said that there is a diving season. So, they are
    not diving whole year long. One would presume that the season is in
    favorable conditions, not in winter.

    Yes, they are. That wiki page says

    "The ama were expected to endure harsh
    conditions while diving, such as freezing
    temperatures and great pressures from the
    depths of the sea."

    "freezing"

             Third, in Wikipedia they say that those women actually lose
    weight during diving season. Which could be because of physical strain,
    since they probably don't work as hard out of the season.

    Which is what I said. aa says the fat is supposed to
    keep them warm. It doesn't if that activity means they
    lose it.

            Ah, I didn't bother with your link, since I saw it is from 1967.,

    Which means that they have modified their
    practice. From the wiki link

    "The number of ama continue to dwindle as this
    ancient technique becomes less and less practiced,
    due to disinterest in the new generation of women
    and the dwindling demand for their activity. In
    the 1940s, 6,000 ama were reported active along
    the coasts of Japan, while today ama practice at
    numbers more along the scale of 60 or 70 divers
    in a generation."

    To say that the practice is dying out would be fairly accurate.

    but it looks like it is pretty detailed. Well, my info is recent, and I believe it is about Korean ama. Anyway, I will not bother about it still,
    it is pretty clear that SC fat is for aquatic purposes. I mean, as far as I can tell, all those amas are women. Which doesn't explain everything (since ama diving wasn't economical, men would do something that is economical),
    but explains enough. You don't know much about SC fat, go and read
    something, it is absolutely clear that it is for aquatic lifestyle. And it isn't you that I am worried about, this should be absolutely clear to scientific community, yet it isn't, and this is what makes people like you
    to behave like you behave.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to Marc Verhaegen on Wed Feb 14 18:56:33 2024
    Marc Verhaegen wrote:
    Op maandag 5 februari 2024 om 22:36:04 UTC+1 schreef somebody:

    From 1967
    Quite a number of interesting facts.
    http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/CORESEA/AMA.pdf
    The Diving Women of Korea and Japan
    Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers,
    called ama, are employed in daily foraging
    for food on the bottom of the sea.

    Yes, voluntary breath-holding is exclusively seen in (semi)aquatic
    mammals.

    You mean like those diving puppies? Crab eating macaques? ;)

    Their performance is of particular interest to the physiologist
    "She carries a counterweight (of about 30 pounds)
    to pull her to the bottom..."

    Yes, that's why H.erectus had pachyosteosclerosis (google):
    very thick & heavy skeleton (probably more brittle: too much
    calcium), exclusively seen in tetrapods that regularly dive for littoral
    foods
    = diving-adaptation in slow+shallow-diving, e.g. Sirenia, earliest
    fossil Cetacea etc.
    (Not vice versa: deep+fast divers such as present-day Cetacea have
    light skeletons!)

    Ama look nothing like that.

    "If she dives deeper than the level of maximum
    lung compression (her "residual lung volume"),
    she becomes subject to a painful lung squeeze;
    moreover, because the hydrostatic pressure in
    her blood vessels then exceeds the air
    pressure in her lungs, the pulmonary
    blood vessels may burst."
    "Lanphier has calculated that repeated dives to
    depths of 120 feet, such as are performed by male
    pearl divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago of the
    South Pacific, can result in enough accumulation
    of nitrogen in the blood to cause the bends
    on ascent."
    "To compensate for this loss the Korean diving
    woman eats considerably more than her nondiving
    sisters. The ama's daily food consumption amounts
    to about 3000 kcal, whereas the
    average for non-diving Korean women of
    comparable age is on the order of 2000 kcal/day."
    "They showed, for one thing, that with the same
    thickness of subcutaneous fat, divers had less
    heat loss than non-divers. This was taken to
    indicate that the divers' fatty insulation is
    supplemented by some kind of vascular adaptation
    that restricts the loss of heat from the blood
    vessels to the skin, particularly in the arms and
    legs. Secondly, the observations disclosed that
    in winter the diving women lose about half of
    their subcutaneous fat (although non-divers do
    not)."

    Yes, thanks a lot, this nicely confirms we had frequently-diving
    ancestors still in the Pleistocene:

    Long legged, sleek, trim, little fat ;)

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