The Big Blue - Mermaid scene

I came across a very touching dialogue in the movie - "The Big Blue". This dialogue comes at a  very romantically charged-up time in the movie when both the lead characters have discovered that they have fallen in love and are trying to convey their feelings. They keep in touch constantly thru phone and in one of their light-hearted conversations the female lead asks her lover to tell her a story. He is a deep-diving passionate and he tells her his ambitions as a story -

Do you know what you're supposed to do to meet a mermaid?
You go down to the bottom of the sea,
where the water isn't even blue anymore,
where the sky is only a memory,
and you float there, in the silence.
And you stay there, and you decide,
that you'll die for them.
Only then do they start coming out.
They come, and they greet you,
and they judge the love you have for them.
If it's sincere, if it's pure,
they'll be with you,
and take you away forever.

This is one of the finest scenes in the movie. Available on youtube.

Mermaid Scene from movie The Big Blue