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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fish-shaped woman propelled herself from end to end of the swimming pool with the help of a purple-tinted monofin. She paused mid-pool to flip head over tail. By land she's Jessica Benson, a ...