A diver in distress off the coast of California’s Catalina Island last week probably thought he was hallucinating when a group of mermaids came to his rescue. Pablo Avila lost consciousness during a scuba dive, but luckily a group of female dive students were nearby undertaking an advanced PADI mermaid...
A diver in distress off the coast of California’s Catalina Island last week probably thought he was hallucinating when a group of mermaids came to his rescue.
Pablo Avila lost consciousness during a scuba dive, but luckily a group of female dive students were nearby undertaking an advanced PADI mermaid rescue course – because apparently that’s a real thing.
Swimming with a mermaid tail has grown in popularity in recent years, and according to a report about the incident on news site Geartape, the activity “is about much more than just breathing heavily and wearing bras made of seashells”.
The mermaids swung into action to give Avila mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while pulling him back to the shore where he was rushed to a decompression chamber, making a full recovery.
