(CNN) — 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 ...

From fantasy photoshoots in the Maldives, to kelp forest "strolls" along California's Catalina Island and Taiwan's luxe hotel ...

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 ...

Mermaid tails aren't just for kids' birthday parties anymore—they're fueling a global travel trend. At the BBC, Laura Studarus dives into the growing world of "mermaiding," where travelers strap on ...

Fans celebrated their first national convention this summer. They claim that swimming with a mermaid tail is a very demanding sport (and art): it involves apnea, synchronization, diving, acrobatics ...

Elle Jimenez is a professional mermaid performer who swims alongside sharks and stingrays. Jimenez started her career as a dancer and starred in a music video with Kanye West. Jimenez goes by Mermaid ...

Brittany Sparkles of Sherwood makes performing as a mermaid look like an elegant, colorful underwater dance. But there is nothing at all easy about swimming this way -- or being a mermaid in the ...