Zandile Ndhlovu calls herself the 'Black Mermaid,' and she's helping South Africans fall in love...

(CNN) If the blue hair wasn't already a giveaway, Zandile Ndhlovu is channeling her inner mermaid.

A South African nine-to-fiver turned free diver, Ndhlovu says the ocean is the only place she's felt a sense of belonging.

Yet the 33-year-old only discovered that feeling five years ago during an impulsive snorkel trip in Bali. "It was just the most incredible moment when I stopped panicking from thinking that I was drowning and just realizing the incredible world that was under there," Ndhlovu tells CNN.

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