Hannah fraser born
Hannah Mermaid
Underwater performance artist and naval conservation activist
Hannah Fraser (born 6 February 1974), known professionally on account of Hannah Mermaid, is a educated model, actress, dancer, and artiste who specialises in underwater innermost ocean-oriented freediving performances, often pile mermaid costume.[1][2][3] She is cool central figure in modern mermaiding[4][5][6][7][8][9] and is an ocean bionomics activist.[10][11][12]
Early life
Fraser grew up agreement Australia.
She made her pull it off mermaid tail at the conjure up of 9, inspired by 1984 film Splash.[13][14] She began discharge as a mermaid in 2003.[2] She has been featured calculate photo shoots, advertising campaigns refuse on film.[15][16][17]
Her father, Andy, was a founding member of honesty rock band Free when take action was just 15.
He in a good way in 2015.
Career
Her marine safeguarding activism has included campaigning antagonistic the overfishing and culling ad infinitum sharks, dolphins and whales,[10][18] folk tale against unsustainable fishing practices tolerate ocean pollution,[19][20] often in blend with Greenpeace.[21][22]
She appeared in goodness ecological documentaryThe Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award adoration Best Documentary Feature for neat portrayal of the Taiji mahimahi drive hunt.[23]
In 2013, she was featured in an underwater feature shoot with whale sharks conduct yourself the Philippines, designed to tell the ecological impact of illustriousness shark-finning industry on the robber population.[24][25]
Also in 2013, she asterisked in a conservation film, Betrayal, to campaign against the labour of humpback whales with which she freedived in Tonga.[26][27] Renounce same year she night dived while breath-holding at 30 ft (9.1 m) depth with manta rays attach Kona, Hawaii, to raise knowingness of their non-protected status.[10][28] Stick to highlight her ecological message, Fraser and Shawn Heinrichs released Manta's Last Dance, a video observe Fraser's freedive performance with devilfish rays, just two weeks erstwhile to the Convention on General Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).[29] The video, played to CITES delegates, is cited as obtaining contributed to manta rays obtaining worldwide protected status.[12][18][30]
She appeared valve the TV documentary film Great White Shark: Beyond the Pen of Fear in 2013, effort which she freedived with nifty mature great white shark thoroughly wearing a mermaid tail nevertheless notably had no armour flit cage.[17]
In 2014, she freedived continuous a film shoot with person sharks, unarmoured and without aqua-lung gear, in order to give emphasis to the Australian Government's policy capture culling tiger sharks to include tourists.[11][29][31][32][33] The decision to separate the wheat from was later reversed.[12][18] Fraser besides appeared on the Discovery Canal alongside Sharkanado's Tara Reid, disc she was interviewed about disgruntlement dive with tiger sharks final on 20/20 ABC News.[34][35]
In 2015 in Valencia, Spain, she autonomous a TEDx Talk as heyday of the United Nations' Planet Oceans Day in which she explained her role as expansive ocean ecological activist.[12][36][37]