Mellinger swimming through the tank. David Mellinger "I found where they drop their towels and I grabbed one to dry off real quick afterwards, and so I jumped into the tank. I stripped down to my ...

A woman swimming in a mermaid costume had a narrow escape from drowning after her tail became stuck at the bottom of a massive aquarium tank in a shopping mall, with the terrifying moment captured ...

A professional mermaid overcame a 'huge fear' of water to perform with sharks and stingrays in a 25-foot tank ...

A woman in a 'mermaid contest' was mauled by a shark in an aquarium in Jiangsu as she started swimming for the surface. The beast suddenly lurches towards the performer and chomps down on her arm.

Some swim around at aquariums, some take their tails to parties, and around a dozen are employed at Dive Bar, an aquatic-themed club with nightly mermaid shows in Sacramento, California.

Mermaid meetups are organized into geographic “pods.” The MerNetwork forum hosts pages for the Pod of Cali, the Rocky Mountain Pod, the Chesapeake Pod and the Union of the Pods of the North ...

Mermaid Odette makes a new human friend at Return of the Mermaids in August 2016. The mermaid-themed event on Fourth Avenue and Downtown is one of the aquatic performer’s most popular gigs.

To mark the occasion, the aquarium put on special mermaid performances for visitors, which involved swimmers diving into the fish tank.