Despite being a "dream" job there's is a lot of work when it comes to being a professional mermaid ... is not just posing as a mermaid. "If you have to wear a silicon tail you get paid 15 pounds ...

Matthew: So, I have been making mermaid tails for over 10 years. One of the major questions I get is, "Who's buying these tails?" It's mainly models, hobbyists, performers. I do a lot of music ...

"And I saw this video of a professional mermaid. I was like, 'Whoa, that's a thing?'" "There were no mermen," he recalled. "There were a couple pictures of guys in a tail and everything ...

Finding a mermaid tail, however, was not as easy ... "I was part of a group that included professional surfer David Rastovich and actress Hayden Panettiere, that paddled out into the bay of ...