Back in the day, I mostly associated swimming pools with playing Marco Polo, doing handstands, and, most importantly, pretending to be a mermaid. Nowadays, I mostly associate them with lap swim, which ...

It is summertime and you're at the pool with your family. You can't be more than ten, maybe eleven years old. You've always felt most at home in the water, to a point where you wonder if it's normal.

Water safety is a big concern, especially during the summer months. Hundreds of Canadians die each year from drowning, many of whom would have likely described themselves as strong swimmers. So should ...

A woman has been banned from swimming in her community's pool because she wants to wear a mermaid tail. Jenna Conti, who lives in the FishHawk Ranch subdivision, had been in the Aquatic Club pool with ...

A Florida woman has been banned from swimming in her community's pool because she wants to wear a mermaid tail.Jenna Conti, who lives in the FishHawk Ranch subdivision, had been in the Aquatic Club ...

There is blood in the water at the Freedom Aquatic and Fitness Center in Manassas, Virginia. Angela Murray Pavlovsky, 40, emerges from the pool with knuckles raw and red, having scraped them during a ...

A human 'mermaid' says she is being forced into the sea as local swimming pools refuse to let her wear her tail in the water. Becky Allen likes to don her tail and go for a swim, but says that every ...

This Florida mermaid is determined to swim against the tide. Eden Sirene, a mermaid from Fishhawk Ranch, Fla., can no longer wear her sparkly blue tail in her town’s pools—thanks to a stringent ...

Sept. 27 (UPI) --A woman in England was banned from wearing her mermaid tail at a local pool after it was deemed a safety risk. Leia Trigger, who goes by the name Mermaid Aries, wore the 150 pound ...