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June 28, 2009: Mermaid
Hey look, a mermaid...
not one of those ugly Sea Cows drunken sailors fell for, or an animated Disney character, but a living, breathing, mermaid.
Would I lie to you, my oldest and dearest friends?
if it didn't involve sex or money, anyway.
| Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness. At one point, reports Stuff, a child asked her what happened to her legs and she told him she was a mermaid. The idea stuck with her, so she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, two years ago asking for a mermaid tail. To her surprise, they said they'd do it. |
| Nadya Vessey's prosthetic tail is mostly constructed from wetsuit fabric and plastic molds, and covered in a digitally printed sock. |
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zippyt Sunday Jun 28 03:11 AM
its a Dolphen !!!!
xoxoxoBruce Sunday Jun 28 03:16 AM
SHE's a "Dolphen". :p
TheMercenary Sunday Jun 28 05:50 AM
Eat it? Wouldn't that be like having a peel and eat shrimp and opening it up only to find the meat missing? No thanks.
SPUCK Sunday Jun 28 06:08 AM
Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?
Frenger Sunday Jun 28 06:37 AM
I wonder how well she can swim in that.
monster Sunday Jun 28 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by SPUCK
Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?
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I bet she can swim really well -think about how fast butterfly kick is, and here she doesn't have to work to keep her legs together.
Happy Monkey Sunday Jun 28 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
SHE's a "Dolphen". :p
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Rendrago Sunday Jun 28 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Frenger
I wonder how well she can swim in that.
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http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=d...bd9b1a5fa5c8a8
Trilby Sunday Jun 28 05:05 PM
That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.
Mayor of Shekou Sunday Jun 28 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.
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lumberjim Sunday Jun 28 08:45 PM
its June!
delete this after you fix the title
lumberjim Sunday Jun 28 08:55 PM
Doesn't seem all that fluid ....
I wonder it it's a rigid construct. It seems like they should have gone with a stiff plastic/rubber compound so it has some spring to it.
I bet they could sell them
Medic63 Sunday Jun 28 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
its June!
delete this after you fix the title |
xoxoxoBruce Sunday Jun 28 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
its June!
delete this after you fix the title |
Congratulations, you passed.
smee Sunday Jun 28 11:29 PM
Apparently she had a condition that meant her lower legs did not develop and so had her right leg amputated at 7 years of age and the other one 'to match' when she was 15.
SPUCK Monday Jun 29 06:14 AM
Ah! OK thanks smee.
ZenGum Monday Jun 29 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.
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Coign Monday Jun 29 10:22 AM
It reminds me of this article I saw some time ago.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...d-man-made-fin
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Lunocet users have already hit about eight miles (13 kilometers) per hour, nearly twice as fast as Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps at his speediest. Using the Lunocet, some swimmers are close to being able to breach completely out of the water, like whales. Ciamillo envisions a new high-speed, free-diving community of swimmers united around "hydrotouring": long-distance swimming expeditions using Lunocets to cover dozens of miles a day, with participants carrying streamlined, waterproof packs containing only a global positioning system (GPS), satellite phone, and enough food and water for a few nights on shore. |
And even cooler in my fight to stick to the man over copyright laws and freedom of knowledge is this attitude held by the inventor.
| Ciamillo ... notes that he won't be patenting the Lunocet's design. "If you're taking ideas from nature," he says, "how can you then go to the patent office and say these are mine?" |
spudcon Monday Jun 29 01:53 PM
From the link "says Frank Fish, a marine biologist at West Chester University of Pennsylvania."
Something sounds fishy here.
Sundae Tuesday Jun 30 01:11 PM
The trade made by the Little Mermaid was that she lost her voice and every step she walked on land was like knives piercing her.
I suspect we live in more altruistic times now.
Otherwise we might have read about this case in a somewhat different manner.
chrisinhouston Tuesday Jun 30 02:49 PM
It would be interesting if she wanted to compete in swimming competitions. Wasn't there an amputee runner with special spring loaded lower legs who was not allowed to run in the olympics or someother race event? And what about the guy in the Masters golf tournaments who had trouble walking and they didn't want him to ride in his golf cart.
Coign Wednesday Jul 1 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by chrisinhouston
It would be interesting if she wanted to compete in swimming competitions. Wasn't there an amputee runner with special spring loaded lower legs who was not allowed to run in the olympics or someother race event? And what about the guy in the Masters golf tournaments who had trouble walking and they didn't want him to ride in his golf cart.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008...008.athletics2
treehugger Thursday Oct 8 03:40 PM
That is so fake looking. I bet they did it cheep.
xoxoxoBruce Friday Oct 9 01:55 AM
Fake? As opposed to a REAL mermaid? 
They weren't building a movie prop, it's a prosthesis.
treehugger Wednesday Nov 25 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Fake? As opposed to a REAL mermaid?
They weren't building a movie prop, it's a prosthesis. |
xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Nov 25 10:38 PM
Looks fake as compared to WHAT?
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