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There are sea gypsies
The Southeast Asian nation Baggio lives - they are called sea gypsies because they are nomadic marine life off the coast of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Although in recent years governments have moved to the land of nomads, until now, many of them live in the sea in houses on stilts, or simply boating. They visit the beach for the sale of fish caught and the pearls and the purchase of rice, water and other essentials. Some sea gypsies in childhood perforated eardrums. A child a week is bleeding from the nose and ears, but then could no pain to dive to a depth of 30 meters in search of pearls and sea cucumbers.
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