The Little Mermaid famously sang "flipping your fins, you don't get too far." Apparently, she's never seen Merle Liivand swim. Liivand, also known as "Eco Mermaid," broke a Guinness World Record 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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

An estimated 1,000 people in the United States are “professional mermaids” — that is, they don fishtails and fins and get paid to swim in tanks, pools and open water. These mermaids swim even in ...

Aug. 4 (UPI) --An Estonian swimmer celebrated her 30th birthday by swimming 18.6 miles with a monofin and breaking a Guinness World Record. Merle Liivand donned the monofin -- a swimming fin ...

Kids now have a new way of living out their mermaid dreams. The MerFin, a rubber monofin shaped like a mermaid's tail, is going down a treat with children, especially among those in primary and ...