Recently posted a link to a long video, made about 15 years ago but the video - to my knowledge - was never posted before. It shows two mermaids scuba diving in clear warm oceans, going to great depths with standard Scuba gear except buoyancy compensators. (In a future post, I’ll have something to say about that…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jiFYmxmk10
What struck me was the elegance of the ladies diving with Scuba gear while wearing mermaid suits. The traditional view was always that tanks and tails don’t mix because tanks impede dolphin swimming and look silly. Well, to me these ladies don’t look silly at all, rather moving gracefully and very relaxed in the deep. They can afford to be relaxed - they don’t have to rush back to the surface every few minutes :-)
So I’m going to collect links showing mermaids scuba diving - not that there are many - and post them here as I find them. And I also hope to re-start a discussion about the topic of tanks and tails.
I think the mermaid community misses something interesting here.
Conversely, the general scuba diving community totally - and I mean totally!! - ignores merfolk. I looked at a big scuba board and searched for 'mermaid' . Found 168 links - but all referred to a live-aboard vessel with this name or mermaid statues etc. Not one to what the merfolk community is doing.
Too bad, the two communities share a common love for water and the ocean…
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