On a hot weekday morning in late July, I arrived at Marcus Garvey Pool in Manhattan for a long-awaited meetup with a mermaid. Cookie DeJesus, also known as the Harlem Mermaid, has become a fixture in ...

"At the end of the day this isn't just about a record," swimmer Merle Liivand told Guinness World Records Swimmer Merle Liivand has set a new record for the farthest swim while wearing a monofin. Now, ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 29. INDUSTRY Insider's Tiffany Elias goes below the surface to cover a product that has not yet reached the market, the Finis Foil Monofin. Tim Elson, the Vice President of ...

While mermaid outfits and monofins for swimming are more popular than ever with little girls, cities are beginning to ban them for being dangerous. The tail fins, made to look like ones mermaids have ...

Besides being able to fly like a bird, many people fantasize about having the ability to swim like a dolphin. Divers already have the option of replacing their two regular swim fins with one ...

In a new fitness fad, more people are taking up classes where they put on a ‘mermaid tail’ to swim gracefully and bust stress This summer, when you get into the pool, don a monofin or a mermaid’s tail ...

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 ...

The four-time world record holder is also a marine conservationist and aquapreneur A Florida woman known as the "Eco Mermaid" broke a Guinness World Record by swimming 42.2 kilometres in the ocean ...

Campaigner Lindsey Cole is aiming to beat the current world record of 50km (31 miles), swum in 15 hours A woman who campaigns for cleaner waterways is attempting to set a new world record for the ...

WATCH ABOVE: What would it be like to be a mermaid? One Edmonton woman is aspiring to do just that. But as Lisa Wolansky tells us, a recent ban at city recreation centres is putting a stop to her ...