When we here at Infomaniac first heard there was a man swimming underwater in Florida using a LATEX TAIL, I immediately thought our
AyeM8y had toppled off his
inflatable pool mattress and into a world of fantasy.
Wrong! It's 22-year-old Eric Ducharme, a self-proclaimed MERMAN obsessed with
mermaiding.
“I do eat, breathe and sleep mermaids. It’s my lifestyle. It’s the path in life that I have chosen. When I put on a tail I feel transformed. I’m starting to enter a different world when I hit the water. It’s taken me a really long time to understand my place in life. Being underwater, I feel like I’m away from the world."
Eric drives more than an hour and a half outside of where he lives, three times a week, to swim as a merman.
His family and his boyfriend fully support his mermaiding ways.
And he's "making a splash" with his own business called
The Mertailor. The Mertailor manufactures custom-made mermaid/merman tails from silicone, urethanes, and latex rubbers...
Click here to read more about Eric's aquatic obsession or watch the video clip below...
How about you, Bitches?
Is the mermaiding lifestyle for
you?