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 ...

40 years have passed swimmingly by, but Daryl Hannah still remembers her Splash mermaid tail. “It weighed so much and it put pressure on spots where it shouldn't have pressure,” the actress, 63, tells ...

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 ...

When Pat Sanders invited classmates from the Newport-Mesa Family YMCA to lunch about 10 years ago, she had no idea she was laying the groundwork for a support network that would carry dozens of ...