Auckland Council leisure manager, Rob McGee, acknowledged the popularity of the mermaid tails and suits over the Christmas period. Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device. Watching out for children swimming in mermaid suits distracted lifeguards from their main roles. Rachel McDonald's seven-year-old daughter loves playing in the pool in her mermaid tail. However, mermaid tails have been criticised worldwide for endangering children, and have been banned from public pools in cities around the world.
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Mermaids are not a myth, according to this author. party, " surprise!" And they do it all with their feet pushed into a monofin. The spokeswoman, who asked not to be named, said she had sold up to 20 full mermaid suits -- which includes a monofin attached to the feet.

The "mermaids in training" will be students of the newly established Mount The adult tails would be made with existing monofins, commonly.
They had been particularly popular with parents shortly before Christmas that year, she said. But a North Shore mum says that like many toys, the tails are only dangerous if used irresponsibly.
There is a website associated with the sale of these products which issues both swimming tests before being allowed to use them -- followed by swimming tests in the fin before you are allowed to let them swim. Peters is suing two ex-National ministers after his pension overpayment was made public. Latest from NZ. Auckland Council leisure manager, Rob McGee, acknowledged the popularity of the mermaid tails and suits over the Christmas period. Watching out for children swimming in mermaid suits distracted lifeguards from their main roles.
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The tails - available in different colours and designs - give the illusion of a mermaid swimming in the water; with a swimmer's legs bound inside.
Nonetheless, Farmers sold the tails with a safety warning that advised the device should only be used by swimmers aged 6 and up, and under the supervision of a competent adult swimmer. ![]() But other members of the public were upset for a different reason -- saying having a blanket ban on the devices was unfair to those who used them safely. What I'd like to see is a few sessions for mermaiding and having an adult in the pool as well -- I think that would be a great success. A Facebook page called Mermaiding NZ provides a place for "mermaids" around the country to come together and share their love for swimming with the tails on. |

Equipped with a huge mermaid-like fin on my feet and a snorkel attached to the a Siberian winter to train in finswimming and in the art of making the monofins. having swum m in the pool on one breath in dynamic wearing a monofin, which is a fin resembling a mermaid's tail, then remaining under.
We wish to advise our customers that ALL mermaid tails and fins are no longer permitted in any Auckland Council Leisure It also warned the tail was not a flotation device and should only be used "where you would confidently swim as a human".
They had been particularly popular with parents shortly before Christmas that year, she said.
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The spokeswoman had been a lifeguard herself and understood the council's concerns, but she said she had seen many other swimming toys used unsafely too.
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What I'd like to see is a few sessions for mermaiding and having an adult in the pool as well -- I think that would be a great success.