Mermaids may not be real, but that hasn’t stopped people from turning it into a career. Mermaiding isn’t just about fantasy.

California mermaid enthusiasts inhabit personas that express everything from a yearning for ... they spotted a boy using a monofin — which resembles a pair of swimming fins merged together ...

Swimming in Lake Michigan or at Three Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake, you might spot an iridescent fin of a mermaid in the water. These “mermaids” and “mermen” can be found across ...

Hattiesburg mermaid Emily Shaw, also known as Storm Siren, was team captain for Team USA, who brought home the gold in the 2025 Merylmpics in Germany.

When Merle Liivand first started swimming with a monofin to help with her breaststroke practice, she never could have imagined it would one day lead her to becoming a Guinness World record holder ...

Wearing a flipper modeled after a tail fin, swimmers enjoy mermaid swimming. (Video provided by the Mermaid Academy Japan) Shoko Goto, above, and Chinatsu Matsunaga swim in a pool dressed up as ...

With more than 500 PADI Mermaid Instructors and Mermaid Centers around the world today, you can flip a fin in such far-flung locations as the Maldives, Switzerland, Wisconsin, Australia, Mexico ...

Advocate columnist Jan Risher lived out her mermaid dreams at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas Monday, November 19, 2024. Her tiara affixed, Jan prepares to dip her fins in the water.

If you thought swimming 100 meters was hard, try doing it with one leg (or rather, one fin). The competition, held in Geneva, Switzerland, invites these fantastical athletes to compete in five events: ...

The swimmers, according to Bailey, would take the actress through the steps of learning how to swim like a mermaid. With the help of a model fin, Bailey learned the gracefulness and ease of ...

When Merle Liivand first started swimming with a monofin to help with her breaststroke practice, she never could have imagined it would one day lead her to becoming a Guinness World record holder ...