"I wanted to go live underwater because I'm a complete water child," she tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I thought I'll go live underwater as a mermaid — that way, the viewers have something ...

"To put it frankly, not only is mermaiding not as easy as PADI-certified mermaids make it look, the discipline requires a considerable amount of grace, water skills and most importantly ...

In the same state where a Republican governor wants to whitewash history, a Black mermaid is reclaiming the water as an ancestral healing ground for African Americans. That’s not a plotline out ...

Underwater smiles, colorful tails and a “shell-iberation” of everything mermaid are in store when the California Mermaid Convention returns to the Sacramento area. Advertised as the l ongest-running ...

Rescue: The mermaid has to do a 25-meter submerged swim and rescue a dummy. Speed: The athletes race along the top of the water for 50 meters. Of course, all of the events are completed while ...

As the kids helped Mermaid Echo find the trash that was polluting the water, Echo also interacted with the children by playing "rock, paper, scissors" or waving and giving high-fives ...

Professional mermaid performer Melanie Melendez has swum in aquarium tanks, open water and pools across the country. She has been a part of the Illinois Mer-Pod since it was first created.

As a young girl, watching their water ballet through a wall of glass, I studied the mermaids’ every move in astonishment. Their talents and allure were otherworldly—the soft billowing of their ...