The Weeki Wachee Springs State Park is holding auditions on Jan. 13 for people with the will, desire and lungs to work as professional mermaids. The park, about an hour north of Tampa, bills itself as “The Only City of Live Mermaids!” thanks to daily shows with women dressed as mermaids performing underwater. Park spokesman John Athanason expects at least 50 women will show up for the first part of the audition. “It’s not easy what they do, and a lot of girls find that out” at the audition, Athanason told the Tampa Bay Times. “It’s an inherently dangerous job, and you need to be able to not only save yourself, but save a colleague,” Athanason told the Tampa Bay Times.

Source: Huffington Post December 29, 2017 00:33 UTC