Nearly 400 Britons break the world record for the most mermaids ever gathered in one place.

On Thursday, hundreds of people broke the world record for the largest-ever gathering of mermaids.

The 2022 Mermaid Challenge in Plymouth, Devon, attracted 388 “merfolk,” including men, women, and children.

It breaks the previous Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of mermaids and mermen, which stood at 300.

Participants may be shirtless, wear a swimming shirt, a bikini top, a swim costume top, or a clamshell bra.

Their lower half had to resemble a fish, with a flare of material covering their feet.

The Queen’s Jubilee celebrations were met with a “fabulous turn out,” according to organizer Pauline Barker.

Hundreds of merfolk can be seen sitting around the lido in brightly coloured wigs, neon tops, and glitzy tails.

According to a spokesman for the event, they have unofficially broken the record, but they need confirmation from Guinness next week.

Guinness defines a merperson as a “mythological creature with the top half of their body being that of a human and the bottom half a tail of a fish,” implying that the costumes must meet certain criteria. All participants were required to wear a fishtail costume skirt that was fitted from the waist to the ankles and had a flume or flare of material that extended over and covered the feet.