Her passion for "real-life mermaid swimming" ramped ... exploded - you hear about people dressed as mermaids and swimming in mermaid's tails all the time. "So the comments I received were very ...

In 2010, with the help of her brother, Katzenell made her own mermaid tail from scratch and went ... only crazy person who wanted to swim like Ariel for real. And when she contacted me, I learned ...

but also the tail is designed and tailored to your body, so that way you don't just slide out of it. We have mermaids out in Hawaii who swim down to 60, 70 feet on one breath of air with our monofins.

A group of real-life ... and mermaid photographer Elaina Garcia heard the cries for help, "I took off," she tells PEOPLE. "I sprinted as fast as I could in the mermaid tail." ...

Kate Macleod, also known as The Hebridean Mermaid, will explore waters surrounding the Western Isles in a new-series.