Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Laflin likes to recall the time he wriggled into a 9-foot-long, 30-pound blue mermaid tail. He’d spotted similar pieces ...

A trio of mermaids rescued a man from drowning after he lost consciousness towards the end of his scuba dive in California. Pablo Avila, his son and a friend had chosen to scuba dive during a trip to ...

So a few weeks later, when asked if I was interested in learning about PADI mermaid certification – at the Four Seasons Bora ...

Mermaid Elle — a.k.a. Elle Jimenez — opens up to PEOPLE about what it really takes to be a real-life mermaid Jimenez says that working as a mermaid for 10 years has been physically draining on her ...

Over eight years, Brandee Anthony has built an aquatic empire around mermaiding Brandee Anthony Media; Vero Beach Mermaid/TikTok Brandee Anthony decided to try mermaiding for content on her Periscope, ...

The "Merlympics" are, of course, the Mermaid Olympics, in which swimmers wearing mermaid tails compete in order to bring attention to water and marine conservation issues. A desert mermaid from Utah ...

On a hot weekday morning in late July, I arrived at Marcus Garvey Pool in Manhattan for a long-awaited meetup with a mermaid. Cookie DeJesus, also known as the Harlem Mermaid, has become a fixture in ...

Find out how colorful tails and professional training combine on Catalina Island, where certified mermaids don't just enchant—they save lives.

She’s living a life of porpoise. Nikky Wegloop, 19, loves the water — and has turned her passion into a profession as a mermaid and qualified scuba diver. Wegloop, who lives in Mijas Costa, Spain, ...

On a normal day, the Ambassador Lagoon inside China’s Atlantis Sanya resort on the island of Hainan is home to about 86,000 marine creatures from over 280 animal species. But on April 28, this huge ...