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Stephanie Areli’s Mermaids

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One of many beautiful mermaid carved wood panels by Greek artist Stephanie Areli (Flickr, Blog, Facebook).  Thanks to Fred Eagle for the find!

The Mermaid of Isleton

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NSL friend (and editor at Yacht Pals) Fred Eagle writes via Facebook

Hey David….Have you seen her? I snapped this pic for you at the Hotel Del Rio in Isleton. An awesome mermaid painted on glass behind the bar. The bar is curved and so is the glass…cool funky joint. Been the same since 1949. I didn’t have any gear with me so I will go back and get you better pics. ’til then…enjoy mate!

Thanks!  We  are prepping for a cruise up to the North Bay and as far into the Delta as we can manage, we’ll see if time and water depth hold out that far…

Today’s mermaid t-shirt

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New Medusirena Marina t-shirt, now available at Zazzle.

Marina the Mermaid & Los Straightjackets


Medusirena Marina performing her bed-of-nails and fire-eating act last week at Hukilau 2009, to the throbbing jungle drums and wailing guitars of Los Straightjackets.   Your Correspondent can be clearly seen as the white blob in a hat on the other side of the pool at the 3:20 point.

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Goth mermaid avatar art by NSL reader Pebble Garden.

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Marvelous mermaid tattoo applied just two days ago on NSL sweetheart Peggy.  After artwork found on a kayak here

Mermaid suits from Otter Bay

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Cricket, owner of Otter Bay wetsuits, makes fantastic and functional mermaid suits for sport divers.

We at Otterbay – a nickname for our beautiful Monterey Bay in California, USA - are proud to be the pioneer of a wonderful new version of sport diving. We call it Mermaid Diving.

It is a beautiful new kind of diving, where the diver wears a sleek, sexy mermaid-type wetsuit and a special mono-fin. It can be done with or without SCUBA equipment.

We quietly developed this equipment over the last few years. Hundreds of mermaid dives have been done by the first ladies using this equipment. As we found a surprising interest in mermaid diving among scuba diving women - “where can I buy such a suit?” - we decided to make this equipment available to a wider audience of experienced divers.

We encourage you to take a closer look at this new equipment, read the stories, enjoy the photos and contemplate whether this is something you may want to try out yourself.

You will find that diving as a mermaid is not scary – rather it is a delight. This equipment will transform you into a streamlined creature of the sea, the star of the show, fast as a dophin (well, not quite,but you get the idea) However, do not do it if you cannot stand in the limelight of all these underwater cameras you’ll face as a mermaid.

Otter Bay

Mermaid de Barcelona

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from Barcelona Photoblog.

Happy Birthday, Never Sea Land

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Never Sea Land is two years old today.  Who, least of all me, would have thought it would run for so long.  At one point I thought I might run out of mermaids.  Ain’t gonna happen.

Thanks all for reading, the comments, and submissions!

  –   David

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