Mermaiding, the artistic swimming activity in which people wear mermaid fins and tails, is growing in popularity around the world. The activity has led to the formation of mermaid swim schools ...

Becoming a mermaid is the stuff of fairy tales, but one group in Maine teaches people how to swim like one to make that fantasy a reality. "Just really leaving the land world behind because it's ...

PROVO — A lot of young girls pretend to be a mermaid while swimming in a pool or the ocean, but one Provo woman has made that dream come true and competed in the Merlympics. Mia Sim, 22 ...

The Merlympics started in 2015 as a celebration of and competition for the group of performers and athletes who wear grandiose and vibrant mermaid costumes. If you thought swimming 100 meters was ...

Can we please call time on it? Mayim Mermaid Academy in Bournemouth, UK, teaches "mermaiding students" how to swim and perform with mermaid tails, which consist of a plastic mono-fin covered in ...

Rescue a drowning victim the fastest? Swim at the speed of light? Walker, a Riverview-based mermaid performer and instructor known as MerMandy, is one of six members of Team USA. For her ...

Accompanied by a group of friends in canoes, Lindsey Cole will attempt to continuously swim in the river for 24 hours on 28 September for World River Day - all while dressed as a mermaid.

"The Chubby Mermaids" as they came to be known, embraced an idea that it's not a name that defines them, but rather what they do. And what they do is rather impressive: open body water swimming ...

It wasn’t long after her appearance among us that Rick Halsey, captain of the high school swim team, told a reporter standing near the display case that the mermaid was the best thing that had ever ...