"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 ...

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 ...

Not all of the professional mermaids on hand will be in water like Una. Instead, they’ll give visitors a chance to interact with them on land. There are roughly about 1,000 professional mermaids ...

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 ...

Each claim was immediately and scrupulously investigated. A second-grade math teacher, Martha Lloyd, was sitting on a blanket on the beach at dusk when she saw a mermaid rise from the water not far ...

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.

“Mermaid waves are all about that soft, fluid texture—as if your hair just naturally dried that way after a swim in salty water,” says Tatiana Ramos, a hairstylist based in Long ...