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Real Life Mermaids Swimming With Sharks!

31/10/2014

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Mermaid Ondine reports:
You might remember that waaay back at the start of October, mermaid Melusine and myself swam all the way across the UK and up to Edinburgh to perform at Deep Sea World aquarium, where we appeared swimming alongside their seven huge sand tiger sharks! We've put together a video showing our real life mermaids swimming with sharks, which you can see below - or visit our YouTube channel where you can see even more amazing underwater footage of real mermaids.
We were at the aquarium for three days during the Magical Mermaids weekend in October, and our mermaids appeared in the tropical rock pools so that children and adults alike could come to have their photo taken with a real life mermaid. Plus there was the opportunity to watch from the aquarium's observation tunnel as the Merlesque mermaids swam alongside the UK's largest collection of sharks, and an amazing selection of fish and other sea creatures - including Stella the stingray, who's definitely the friendliest stingray we've ever met.
real mermaid at deep sea world aquarium merlesque
Mermaid Melusine can't wait to get in the water!
real mermaid swimming at deep sea world quarium edinburgh merlesque
Mermaid Ondine preparing for a dive!
The staff at Deep Sea World were so lovely and incredibly helpful with carrying us around everywhere and keeping us supplied with hot drinks and big buckets of hot water - we're tropical mermaids, so the icy water in the shark tank (which is piped in straight from the Forth!) felt extremely chilly to us. We came up with a whole variety of ways to warm up after our swims, including warm showers, borrowing the staff hairdryers, and even just sitting in a sink of hot water - check out Mermaid Melusine demonstrating this particular technique below!
We also had the opportunity to meet an incredible array of different creatures who live in the aquarium, including two adorable seals, an alligator snapping turtle named Godzilla, and a whole shoal of piranha (we decided against joining them in their tank...). Mermaid Melusine made a particularly strong impression on one little batfish in the tropical rock pools, and every time she was in there, he would swim right up and kiss her hand. After a while we decided to call him Eric, after the prince in Disney's The Little Mermaid - although unlike Eric in the film, he was much less shy about kissing the girl!

Over the course of the Magical Mermaids weekend we met so many little mermaid fans, and it was lovely to chat to them all and answer their questions about life under the sea.
Real mermaid in a sink at Deep Sea World aquarium Merlesque
Mermaid Melusine warms up in a sink
The whole weekend was made even more special by the fact that the aquarium had created a lovely storybook complete with pictures of us and a story explaining to the children how we came to be mermaids. Mermaid Melusine and I both got copies of the storybook to take home! Hopefully we'll be back at Deep Sea World sometime in the new year, so if you love mermaids and you're based in the Edinburgh area, watch this space.

Best fishes,

Mermaid Ondine x
1 Comment
Sapphire
4/7/2015 06:56:39 am

hello,

Have you ever recruited people before?, If so I'd love to become a member of your team, Being a lover of swimming and all things mermaid

Kind regards sapphire

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