Katrin Gray aka Mermaid Kat is a full time professional mermaid, scuba and freediving instructor. In August 2012 Kat founded the Mermaid Kat Academy in Thailand, which was the world’s first public mermaid school. Since then she taught mermaid courses in over 10 different countries and opened branches of her mermaid school in Europe and Perth, Australia. Together with her qualified mermaid team, the Mermaid Kat Academy has trained over 4,000 new mermaid students so far. Kat is being filmed and photographed during her underwater stunts at up to 40 m under the surface. She dances through shipwrecks and sometimes she is surrounded by hammer head sharks, dolphins or even tiger sharks. The Perth based mermaid loves to teach others on how to become mermaids and mermen themselves. She loves to spread her mermaid magic and her goal is to create many new ocean ambassadors to protect our seas. Kat also developed her own range of highly functional mermaid tails.

Mermaid Emmy is part of our Perth mermaid team and works as a mermaid instructor. When she is not swimming with her tail she works on land teaching boys and girls how to swim and works as a fully qualified AUSTSwim teacher of Swimming and Water Safety. Nothing makes her happier then seeing children learning and enjoying swimming and the life saving safety skills she can pass on to them. Emmy teaches children from age 3+ and has worked at a number of leisure centres across Perth as well as the Education Department teaching their school age programmes and higher stages/life saving clubs. Emmy enjoys to see a child’s confidence grow in the water and she believes that learning to swim is one of the most important skills we can teach Australian children. Emmy loves to see other mermaids come to life by teaching them how to swim in their mermaid tails safely and efficiently using the training programme created by Mermaid Kat Academy.

Mermaid Madeleine loves the ocean and enjoys bringing magic to life. With a strong passion for marine life running in the family it’s only natural she wanted to be a real life mermaid since she was little. She’s been lucky to scuba dive and swim in many beautiful locations like Ningaloo (Western Australia) and Indonesia seeing many animals including whale sharks. Sharks are one of Madeleine’s favourite animals and she enjoys educating young children about them and all ocean life. Madeleine is a child at heart and gets so excited to see children happy, her goal is to always keep the magic alive. Madeleine loves engaging with children and listening to their stories. With a diploma in performing arts, Madeleine has studied children’s theatre which makes her a very enthusiastic performer. She is also a previous full time ballet dancer who strives to glide with grace through the water and move with an ethereal quality. The most rewarding thing for Madeleine is to see children’s faces light up with excitement to see a real life mermaid as she only wishes she could have as a child.

Fascinated by the ocean and its inhabitants, our Mermaid Sunny is happy to be part of our Townsville mermaid team. She is a true professional marine biologist with the aim to raise awareness for the protection of the marine environment and their coral reef ecosystems.

Since she was little, she became passionate about being immersed in the aquatic world. She learned how to swim before even knowing how to write. Since then, she cannot imagine her life without being in the water. Sunny became and worked as a swimming instructor and lifeguard for several years. She is also a qualified scuba rescue diver and learned how to surf.

Working as a mermaid instructor for Mermaid Kat Academy, Sunny hopes to make dreams come true and to bring a smile in children’s (and adults’) faces. She enjoys to teach others to become authentic mermaids and mermen. To Sunny it is especially important, to promote children’s abilities to swim and to ensure safe swimming with mermaid tails during and outside of our mermaid courses.