June 8 (UPI) --A swimmer known as the "eco mermaid" broke a Guinness World Record by taking a 26.22-mile swim in the ocean while wearing a monofin. Merle Liivand, a swimmer and conservationist known ...

(CNN) — When Merle Liivand first started swimming with a monofin to help with her breaststroke practice, she never could have imagined it would one day lead her to becoming a Guinness World record ...

The four-time world record holder is also a marine conservationist and aquapreneur A Florida woman known as the "Eco Mermaid" broke a Guinness World Record by swimming 42.2 kilometres in the ocean ...

"At the end of the day this isn't just about a record," swimmer Merle Liivand told Guinness World Records Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Swimmer Merle Liivand has set a ...

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LIVERMORE, California, June 24. RECENTLY, Swimming World's Tiffany Elias spent the day at FINIS headquarters to get an inside look at how the company manufactures some of the top swimming aides in the ...

In a new fitness fad, more people are taking up classes where they put on a ‘mermaid tail’ to swim gracefully and bust stress This summer, when you get into the pool, don a monofin or a mermaid’s tail ...

Merle Liivand swam in choppy waters off Miami coast to raise awareness about importance of clean oceans In the Little Mermaid, Ariel sings a whole song about wishing to be part of a world where people ...