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Akumal, Mexico
I saw three mermaids doing loops and swimming to the sandy bottom. I wasn't sure if I had drowned, or was suffering from narcosis, or if I had perhaps swallowed the worm from a mezcal bottle by mistake. I just had to keep breathing and following Paulo's fins, our guide, because I'd never been scuba diving before and was getting seriously freaked out just for a minute. This was some dive for a first one though, and I really was thrown in at the deep end amongst th...