Anyone with an otterbay mermaid wetsuit?

[Echidna]

Found out about them in the Scuba subforum.

While I would never do a scuba dive in one of those (dolphin kick and tank= big no-no),
I thought they could be good for longer swims and deeper freedives, keeping you warm and basically replacing a "normal" tail.

Would love to hear if anyone here owns one-
how well the suit insulates, how fast/strong the swimming is compared to a conventional tail, etc.

(the gold and silver coloured ones also look stunning!)

[AniaR]

Mermaid Linden of Mermaids in Motion has used several of her suits and says many good things about them. There's some footage of her online swimming in them

[Echidna]

I've seen the footage, really pretty.

I was thinking of getting a suit since all non-pool waters I do have access to are ice cold, year round,
thus a suit would come in handy, even if it's only 3mm thick and thus not really made for truly cold waters.

I was considering a wetsuit too, but there seem to be none that would fit me.
They are all cut to fit men.
The only business I found selling wetsuits for women will only fit if you are around 5ft
(as if there were no women taller than that), so yea.

I don't like those black ninja-like wetsuit look anyway.

[johnleeex]

A new video documentary (1 hour long) with mermaids scuba diving in the ocean using Otterbay suits. Here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jiFYmxmk10

and some stills from the video.
Edit: the black mermaid is not from the video, error when posting. But same idea.

[theMerFanc]

Ive wanted one for years but I don't think they are made anymore :( at least I can watch other people live theirs.

[johnleeex]

Oh yes, www.otterbaysuits.com is very much in business!

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