Anyone interested in Mermaids as ancient freedivers?

[wabond]

Hi Everyone

I feel a bit of a fraud coming onto this Message Board because it is clearly a Forum for athletes and I cannot claim to be that. Yet in spite of that, I have written a book/blog that may interest freedivers.

My book called, “Mermaids, Witches and Amazons” claims that mermaids were not mythical creatures or sea-cows but female freedivers, similar to the Ama and Haenyo divers in Japan and Korea. I believe we once had similar divers in Europe and from these divers came the mermaid myths and legends.

My book also discusses the controversial Aquatic Ape Theory which suggests that freediving is nothing new, but goes back millions of years in human history. Anyway if anyone is interested in this my book/blog is available at.-

Mermaids are real!

[FONT=&quot]William Bond[/FONT]

 

[trux]

Welcome to DeeperBlue, William! And thank you for your quite informative text on the history of mermaids and female native divers. It is a quite long text, and I did not have the time yet for reading it, but after quickly scanning through it, it seems to be pretty thorough and bringing a lot of information, and facts about the history, and also incredible amount of photos of amas, and old mermaid paintings!

This topic definitely belongs here on DB - it is very closely related to freediving, and also the aquatic ape theory is often being discussed here. And although there are many freediving competitors here on DB, I think that the majority of DB members are simply underwater addicts, and your text would interest many of us.

Thank you for sharing!

 

[wabond]

Thank You Trux for the welcome. I'm glad to hear the aquatic ape theory has been discussion on this forum. This theory does show that freediving is nothing unusual for human beings but is a important aspect of our evolution from apes to humans.

William Bond

 

[trux]

Yes, some threads about the aquatic ape theory may be found here: DeeperBlue Forums - Threads Tagged with aquatic ape and many others in the forum search. Also mermaids were discussed here frequently, and there is another author of a book about mermaids (fiction though) who posted here recently. You can find it here:
http://forums.deeperblue.com/guerns...nfo-about-guernsey-other-channel-islands.html
http://forums.deeperblue.com/guerns...er-about-mermaids-not-mermaid-who-writes.html
There are also many other threads about mermaids, and also some professional mermaids (models, actresses, or mermaids in aquatic parks) are members of this forum. Just enter the word mermaid into the search function above in the menu and you'll get plenty of links to past discussions about that topic.

 

[toni_d]

I have to say your book is interesting , impressive and extremely enlightning, could not stop reading, you make a logical arguement, and the information makes sense as opposed to other accepted(enforced) ideas. well done.

 

[wabond]

Hi Toni D

Thank you Toni D for the feedback, I'm glad you liked it.

Also thank you Trux for the links.

William Bond

 

[efattah]

Examining the evidence I think it is quite possible that mermaids did exist. I would imagine that if the aquatic ape theory is true, then it is possible that one branch of our species never came out of the water but stayed in the whole time. This subspecies would be ultra aquatic. Until the 1800's mermaids were widely understood as accepted, it was not even debated. Several were caught, and they could not speak or talk.

In fact the most famous recent sighting is right in my area, at Active Pass on a common ferry route to Vancouver Island, in 1967, where hundreds of people saw a mermaid sitting on rocks eating a salmon, even a passing airplane pilot saw it.

Sadly they are probably extinct by now, so we may never know.

 

[wabond]

Hi Eric

I did think about this as well, but the evidence for it as very slender. Yes, some people have claimed to have seen mermaids with fish tails but that is all. Where as the evidence that mermaids are simply woman divers is far stronger.

William Bond

 

[kmo]

I hope mullins doesn't get a hold of this thread!! (tongue firmly in cheek )