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 ...

With summer on the horizon, I'm dreaming of pools, parties, and being a part of the fun. Just like Ariel was wishing to be a part of our world, I'm forever dreaming I could be where the mermaids are.

It seems like only yesterday that my sister and I tied our feet together, let our hair down and swam around the pool in our backyard, fully convinced that we were Ariel and that, if we put our minds ...

Darling, it's better down where it's wetter. But even with Sebastian's wisdom in mind, sometimes you want to stay above water. So how do you indulge your inner mermaid while keeping your head dry?

Mermaids are usually the stuff of legends, but at the Newport-Mesa Family YMCA, a popular water aerobics class transforming area residents into mermaids and mermen on a daily basis is always happy to ...

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 ...

These on-and-off warm weather days are pure torture (seriously, I can't stand it). One day I'm breaking out my sunglasses and talking about how all of my friends and I "totally need a beach weekend," ...

In the first snapshot, little Stormi floats on her back in the blue fin and matching frilly top with her arms extended outward. The second snapshot shows the tot swimming underwater in the bluest of ...

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 ...

Teenager Leia Trigger - aka 'Mermaid Ariel' - has been banned from swimming in her mermaid tail by her local pool in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. The mermaid-obsessed 18-year-old hopes to turn her ...

I know how to swim, but I have about as much grace as a toddler with those bright orange arm floaties, bobbing about ...

FeatureThe practice of mermaiding is more than just dressing up – it's physically demanding, has its own competitions, and has helped these women find a commnunity. Being a mermaid isn't always easy.