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World Service,5 mins

My life as a male mermaid

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Around the world there are people who have a very particular hobby: an interest in everything mermaids. They dress up, wearing custom-made fish tails, and often perform underwater. Some are professional entertainers. But many are just doing it for the exercise of swimming in tails and to celebrate the mythology of the half-fish-half-person. Hundreds of them have gathered in the south east of the US and Jessica Coates went along. (Photo: Daniel Craig has dressed as a merman for five years. Credit: Sean Norman)

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