Mermaids: The first swimmers certified in their technique.

•Mermaiding is a style of swimming that utilizes a monofin and a dolphin kick stroke. 

•Mermaids take on personas (mersonas) and engage in elegant, aquatic swimming underwater that is often appreciated as a performance for an enthralled audience.

•A safety buddy in mask, snorkel, and bi-fins accompanies every mermaid swimmer, prepared to respond, as needed. Yes, even performing mermaids have a dedicated safety swimmer.

•The decorative “skin” over the monofin is not required but adds an element of sophistication and style, not unlike traditional swim suits. Mermaids master not only swimming in but also removing the tailskin and monofin, while swimming, in emergency practice in the PADI Mermaid course.

•Mermaid swimming attracts more families than ever, with many parents unaware that courses and certification exists that can teach their children critical safety skills in the aquatic environment. By opening your pool to the PADI Mermaid™ program, your facility will engage with and educate greater numbers of swimmers in aquatic safety.

•Mermaiding has many positive benefits in developing healthy lifestyle and self esteem in mermaid swimmers of all ages. Just like other aquatic sports, mermaid swimming improves health and wellbeing among an expanding community. 

•Mermaids often engage in volunteering and support for the marine environment and local waterways that benefit the local community and creates civically engaged citizens from an early age.

•Access to swim facilities transforms mermaiding as a casual and risky hobby to a practiced, aquatic sport where lifetime swimmers are born. Imagine the benefits  of opening your facility to engage with, educate, and empower more local children with solid swim skills.

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•As of June, 2024, hundreds of Ohio residents engage in Ohio Mermaid Community groups on Facebook without any access to proper training. Imagine the opportunity to embrace these families as certified swimmers in their chosen aquatic technique. Schedule a course for your community today.

•Municipal and community swimming pool facilities have an exciting opportunity to be among the first in their entire region to offer mermaid courses and to accept certified mermaid swimmers. As more swimmers certify as PADI mermaids, excitement will surround facilities that open their doors first to certified mermaid swimmers.

•Expanding pool facility usage to include certified mermaid swimmers empowers greater numbers of children and families with opportunities for mermaid instruction, certification, and results in a safer community of swimmers.  

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•PADI, Professional Association of Dive Instructors, recently developed instruction and certifications to legitimize mermaiding as an aquatic sport.

•PADI Mermaid™ instructors come prepared to relieve pool management concerns. 

PADI Mermaid™ instructors carry:

• Professional Liability Insurance 
• Emergency Action Plan
• First Aid / CPR certifications
• Emergency O2 kit

•Regardless of the playfulness that surrounds mermaiding, the PADI Mermaid™ program signifies safety and responsibility:

• PADI Mermaid™ courses governed by PADI standards & procedures
• digital certification cards issued to trained mermaid swimmers

•In the past, the monofin and decorative skin or breathhold swimming caused concern.  Now, with proper instruction, certified mermaid conduct is suddenly exemplary, as no other swimmers hold actual certifications in their technique.

•PADI has done the work to provide a legitimate and safe entryway for mermaiding at your facility with digital certification cards to demonstrate their competence in mermaiding upon arrival. 

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•Demonstrated proof of certification by adult mermaid swimmers (in buddy pairs) upon entry or instructor supervision of students or minors. 

•Certified PADI Mermaids swimming in their technique with a safety buddy monitoring to maximum depths of 15 feet deep, or instructor supervision of PADI courses within these limits. 

•PADI Advanced Mermaids hold emergency first response and CPR certifications. They master further safety buddy techniques in support of mermaid swimmers, qualifying them to assist instructors on PADI Mermaid courses.

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