It began, in a way, with a monogram. "I'm a Southern girl," Nadine Ford says. "We've got to get everything monogrammed." The monogram was for her swim bag, which Ford toted while training for her ...

Is it cannibalism to consider eating sardines for lunch on the day one becomes a fish? That’s the question I pondered as I fueled up for my first-ever mermaid swimming lesson. Yes, mermaid swimming.

Outside the main entrance to the Duluth Area Family YMCA, Felicia Vega, 5, and Veronica Vega, 8, jumped up and down with glee as their mother, Lisa Vega, explained that they would be taking part in ...

From fantasy photoshoots in the Maldives, to kelp forest "strolls" along California's Catalina Island and Taiwan's luxe hotel swims, swimming in a tail is different wherever you do it.

A group of children is on a field trip to Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville. They wander along the shore line, taking in the sights when a young man approaches. “I think I saw a mermaid over ...

At the Durango Community Recreation Center pool Wednesday, three young mermaids frolicked, laughed and executed underwater back flips under the careful supervision of the chief mermaid, Catherine ...

When I was a little girl, one of my very favorite movies was Splash, a love story about a mermaid, played by Darryl Hannah, and a man, played by Tom Hanks. Splash inspired my California summers, which ...

Danica Minard teaches the class. She shows the girls different tricks and skills underwater. She said it’s kind of like acrobatics in the pool. All you need is a mermaid tail and your imagination. The ...

Calling all mermaids: these inflatable pool toys are sea-queen-approved and will totally speak to your ocean-loving soul. Get your merbabes together for a pool party, or bring these along on your next ...

While it would make a great fairytale ending for the spike in interest in swimming and pool-related products to be solely the result of the popularity of Disney’s aquatic princess, many think the ...

The Mermaid Pool has been an attraction at Duke Farms for more than a century. Part of J. B. Duke's interconnected lake system, water flows down from the Duke Reservoir and under West Way to fill the ...