A professional mermaid has shared how not even terrifying encounters with sharks and a heart-breaking swim with dolphins have dampened her lung-busting passion for exploring the ocean with a tail Hannah Fraser already knew she had to be a mermaid when she was nine (Image: David Warth/Cover Images)

Professional mermaid Hannah Fraser felt her calling as a child - and it's stuck with her despite all the ocean has thrown at her, from menacing great white sharks to tragically doomed dolphins.

“As a kid, I naturally swam with my legs together and felt totally comfortable underwater," she said. "Even my first stick figure drawings had tails."

At the age of nine, though, she saw the movie Splash and found her dreams could become reality. “I realised being a mermaid didn’t have to be

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