Once upon a time a fisherman and his wife lived in the city of Hofn, in Iceland, and every day the fisherman paddled out into the huge lagoon to fish. Some days he was lucky, some days not so ...

A man who nearly drowned as a child overcame his fear of swimming by becoming a merman. After falling into his family's pool aged three, Daniel Hayward, 37, grew up feeling panicked by water. Then ...