A trio of mermaids rescued a man from drowning after he lost consciousness towards the end of his scuba dive in California. Pablo Avila, his son and a friend had chosen to scuba dive during a trip to ...

Coming face-to-face with a mermaid was not on most people’s minds in 2026 – until now. Mermaids are making a splash at the ...

“He found it amazing he was rescued by mermaids,” says professional mermaid Elle Jimenez Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

On a normal day, the Ambassador Lagoon inside China’s Atlantis Sanya resort on the island of Hainan is home to about 86,000 marine creatures from over 280 animal species. But on April 28, this huge ...

When PADI-certified diver Elaina Garcia was in a mermaid certification course to further her water safety skills, little did she know that she would need to use her powerful fluke tail to rescue an ...

It may not be long before we cease to see Japan's traditional female free divers, known as Ama, in the flesh. In Toba city, Ama forage for seafood like abalone, sea urchin and lobster, but their ...

After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for harvesting seafood from the ocean floor without scuba gear, photographer Peter Ash Lee said one ...

The Ama are Japan’s last population of female shell divers. But with their way of life and culture increasingly under threat, could this be the end of an age-old tradition? Kimiyo Hayashi sat warming ...

In a coastal hut in Mie Prefecture, a charcoal fire burns at the center as ama — "sea woman" in Japanese, who make a living by free-diving for seafood — warm their hands, or grill fresh catch for ...

San Marcos is gearing up for its fifth annual SPLASH Festival — now dubbed the Mermaid Capital of Texas Fest. The festival, which began in 2016 as a way to celebrate the community and the San Marcos ...

Mermaids have been part of mariners' mythology for thousands of years, with debates over whether they existed or were imagined by sailors who'd been at sea too long. Ocean Rescue Alliance is working ...