Arizona Daily Star

Mermaid school: Learning to swim with a tail

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — There's just something about mermaids — little girls love them, like they love princesses. Playing mermaid can get so realistic that girls can buy a tail. But — water being ...
New York Post

I’m a real-life mermaid — I spend hours every day in my 11-pound tail

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, ...
Women's Health

'I learnt how to swim like a mermaid wearing a monofin... and it's harder than it looks'

As I sink to the bottom of the kidney bean-shaped hotel pool, scabbling to grab the end of my yellow monofin while Moves Like Jagger fades into the bubbly background, I realise that ‘becoming a ...
NOLA.com

For a moment, I became a mermaid at New Orleans' Audubon Aquarium: Here's what it was like.

When the Audubon Aquarium asked if I would like to try my hand at mermaiding, there was only one answer: Absolutely. I clearly had no idea what would be involved. Perhaps there were elements of ...
AOL

With 'The Little Mermaid,' young Black kids are more interested in the water than ever. What to know about swimming racial disparities.

Ariel Tucker was named after Ariel from The Little Mermaid, but the 26-year-old has spent most of her life scared of water, avoiding recreational interactions ever since a near-drowning incident at a ...