Mermaid's Pool is a legend linked to a pool located in the mountainous ridges of The Roaches near Staffordshire, England. According to legend, it is said to share something of a mysterious link with the Atlantic ocean, yet be poisonous to animals and fish. Legend has it that the mermaid appears but once a year on Easter Eve at midnight, and anyone who sees her is either given the gift of immortality, or drawn into the depths of the pool to face their doom.
It has been said that the legend is best associated with another Mermaid's Pool on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, and not that in Staffordshire.
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“Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It’s grueling. There’s nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you’re doing a hard workout, you’re throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.”
—Diana Nyad (b. 1949)