Underwater tourist attraction featuring 'Mermaids' at Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 1967
Weeki Wachee Springs on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA, is a basin with natural deep freshwater springs below. Ex Navy frogman Newton Perry created a performance venue here with Mermaids and Mermen performing a synchronised underwater ballet without using breathing apparatus by taking in air from free-flowing hoses hidden in the scenery. Watched by the audience below the surface behind glass first show was Quickly became one of the country's most popular tourist attractions. Now much expanded to include Buccaneer Bay Water Park, a vintage nineteen sixties photograph
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Location: Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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