SEASTEADING, THE OLD FASHIONED WAY: These Nomads Spend Nearly Their Entire Lives at Sea, But They Might Be The Last Group to Do So.

UK native James Morgan was studying photography in London when he read about a group of seafaring Southeast Asian nomads who had survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami with almost no casualties.

“They understood the ocean so well that they headed for protection before the tsunami hit,” Morgan told Business Insider.

An anthropologist by training, Morgan decided to document the Bajau Laut, who have begun to lose their culture in recent years because of government programs that force them ashore and the difficult reality of fishing for a living in overfished seas. . . .

The Bajau are a nomadic Malay people who have lived at sea for centuries, primarily in a tract of ocean by the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Cool pics.