Special effects company designs working mermaid tail for double-amputee. March 12, 2009— -- When a 4-year-old boy approached her at the beach to ask why she had no legs, Nadya Vessey ...

Miss Vessey said: "One day a little boy came up, he must have been ... with an undulating movement as if she was a mermaid. Every aspect of the tail has been custom made to her body and includes ...

The prosthetic tail allows Ms Vessey to propel ... Her dream of being a mermaid grew from a beach encounter with a four-year-old boy who saw her removing her prosthetic legs and started asking ...

To bring Disney’s iconic mermaid princess Ariel to life in “The Little Mermaid,” costume designer Colleen Atwood constructed a life-sized tail that went from star Halle Bailey’s chest all ...