In the coral triangle of South East Asia lives one of the most unique and highly adapted indigenous groups on earth - the Bajau Laut. For the last few hundred years the Bajau, sometimes referred to as ‘sea-nomads’, have lived almost entirely at sea, deriving most of their daily needs from the ocean and only stopping by land occasionally to trade.The Bajau are famous for their skill as marine hunters, and especially for their ability to dive to great depths, holding their breath for minutes at a time while they search for fish to shoot with their homemade spearguns. Both culturally and economically their bond with the ocean is deep.But in recent decades, faced with declining fish stocks and lured by the comforts of the modern world, almost all the Bajau have given up their nomadic ways, settling in coastal stilt villages across a vast swathe of South East Asia encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.