Scuba diver saved by ‘mermaids’ off Catalina Island

• A group of mermaids rescued a diver near Catalina Island, near San Diego, California.
• Pablo Avila lost consciousness and may not have lived if it weren’t for the rescue team.
• The rescue team were taking an advanced PADI mermaid rescue course.

A scuba diver named Pablo Avila got into trouble near Catalina Island, which is near San Diego, California. Luckily, a group of mermaids came to his aid and saved him.

Pablo was having trouble with his breathing equipment, but he wasn’t seeing things. His rescuers were a group of local female students taking an advanced PADI mermaid rescue course.

Pablo’s dive buddy, Javier Claramunt, said, “Being saved by a mermaid was like something out of a fairy tale.”

Elaina Marie Garcia, who was in charge of the rescue team, says that they were practising how to save lives when they saw Pablo.

The diver had lost consciousness, and if the group of mermaids hadn’t been there to help, he might not have lived.

Javier told FOX 11 that he and another diver were having trouble getting this injured friend back to shore. “We’re pulling him, and we’re getting a little winded and tired, and then, out of nowhere, a bunch of mermaids show up,” he said.

Elaina says that the group was practising how to save another mermaid when they saw Pablo struggling and coughing up foam. This is a sign of an air embolism, so the mermaids worked together to save him.

The mermaids took Pablo’s gear off and gave him mouth-to-mouth before dragging him back to Casino Point, which was not far away.

Pablo was put in a decompression chamber at Casino Point, where he was slowly but safely brought back to health.

More and more people are swimming in the ocean while wearing a “mermaid tail.” A world championship tournament brings together the best swimmers from the US and China.

“Mermaiding” started out as a special effect in movies, but it really took off when eco-activist Hannah Fraser started doing it.

Hannah’s first mermaid tail was inspired by the 1984 movie Splash. Her father, Andy Fraser, was one of the first rock bassists.

Since then, Hannah has used her fame as a mermaid to help ocean ecology causes.

She made a big splash in 2013 when she went free diving with a great white shark without a cage or armour for the TV show Beyond the Cage of Fear.

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