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Trapped Under the Antarctic Ice (i.imgur.com)

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[–]loki010[S] 450 points451 points ago

Photograph by Ruslan Eliseev.

[–]DoubleRainb0w 229 points230 points ago

That ice looks a lot like water.

[–]johnny_deep 232 points233 points ago

Liquid ice. The most dangerous kind.

[–]Siphis 107 points108 points ago

Especially when it's wet.

[–]mastersprinkles 44 points45 points ago

I once choked on some wet liquid ice. Never again will I tangle with that deadly solution.

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points ago

The ice must flow.

[–]jw48335 12 points13 points ago

He who controls the Ice controls the universe!

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      [–]ChimpanAToChimpanzee 3 points4 points ago

      I think it is ice, but with about an inch or so of water on top of it.

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        [–]alexanderlmg 227 points228 points ago

        OP linking to source? That's something you don't see every day.

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          [–]lizzasaur 812 points813 points ago

          does anyone else find this to be a really scary image?

          [–]thingsomething 688 points689 points ago

          Anytime I see something like this all I can think of is "What if I was swimming in there, and my foot touched it."

          [–]FusRoDahMa 166 points167 points ago

          Ahahahahaha! I'm not alone, this is why I won't swim in bodies of water where I cannot see the bottom.

          [–]feeteater2 81 points82 points ago

          this is why I won't swim in bodies of water where I cannot see the bottom.

          just made me cringe

          [–][deleted] 71 points72 points ago

          I always imagine what it would be like to swim out of that while it's sinking, then to turn around and look at it, feeling like I am no longer in the right universe.

          [–]yuki1986 23 points24 points ago

          I'm not alone! Up votes for all of you!

          [–]snarkyaardvark 36 points37 points ago

          Afraid one of these might be lurking:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

          [–]lolabuster 36 points37 points ago

          what in the fuck is that

          [–]Jisaw 34 points35 points ago

          A big ol' roly poly.

          [–]ConciousCanadian 16 points17 points ago

          I seriously thought I was the only one that called those things that

          [–]aerynjbson 9 points10 points ago

          I call them potato bugs

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              [–]WitnShit 17 points18 points ago

              kabuto, don't worry he's generally low tier until he evolves a bit more

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                [–][deleted] 25 points26 points ago

                I find this picture more frightening since you can see the sheer size of that ... thing.

                [–]juicius 17 points18 points ago

                Fuck, Mass Effect is real. That's a Collector General.

                [–]UndeadLunatic 8 points9 points ago

                It lives underwater how are you supposed to kill it with fire!?

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                    [–]nixonrichard 121 points122 points ago

                    I had a cabin at a lake for a while, and one time I was swimming in the lake and felt something touch my foot. I stuck my head under the water only to see that my foot had touched the branch of a MASSIVE dead tree that was probably 100' long and its skeleton of branches reached from the bottom (probably 30 feet down) almost all the way to the surface.

                    Noped HARD and got the fuck out of the water.

                    [–]fargosucks 57 points58 points ago

                    I've done the exact same thing! It's such an irrational fear. It's just a dead tree, but for some reason it freaks me the fuck out to think that there's stuff under that water. Too much time spent in public pools instead of swimming in rivers and lakes, I suppose.

                    [–]juicius 78 points79 points ago

                    Alright, just because I can, I'm going to scar your mind... (at least it did mine when I was told...)

                    Folklore in Korea holds that when a person drowns, he cannot go to heaven or hell and must haunt that spot in the water where he died, until another one drowns in the same spot, then that unfortunate soul takes over and the first one can move on.

                    So whenever you're swimming and you feel something brush your feet, it's the ghost of the person trying to drown you.

                    You're welcome.

                    [–]shiftdnb 80 points81 points ago

                    Shit that's nothing compared to what happens to you with a fan on and the door closed.

                    [–]robcap 27 points28 points ago

                    Fan death is serious shit, bro.

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                      [–]JollyOldBogan 11 points12 points ago

                      Well that's my quota of NOPE filled for a while now.

                      I'll see you guys next week.

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                        [–]NoStrangertolove 15 points16 points ago

                        "Yes, you should go swimming in more rivers." - Jeremy Wade

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                            [–]seeBurtrun 27 points28 points ago

                            I used to be like this and then I learned to scuba dive. For some reason scuba diving takes it from scary to interesting.

                            [–]faleboat 39 points40 points ago

                            I have a HUGE fear of stuff under the water, but when I am under the water too, it's no big deal at all. Amusingly, once I am back on deck, it starts creeping my shit out again. Maybe it has something to do with being in control of your exposure.

                            [–]jeeebus 15 points16 points ago

                            I think its more of a fear of the unknown. When you're swimming on the surface you don't know whats underneath you and that's just straight up scary. Sure there probably isn't anything there but just maybe there might be some never-before-seen species of man eating sharkseals that have been stalking you for the past hour. If they decide to attack you and pull you under you're basically defenseless. You can't see, your movements and swimming are limited and you have less than a minutes worth of air before you black out.

                            At least if you're scuba diving you have a pretty good idea what's around you and god forbid if that sharkseal does decide to attack you have air in your lungs, flippers on your feet for better mobility, and a good ol diver's knife. Come at me bro.

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                                [–]deathsmaash 9 points10 points ago

                                I remember a post a few months ago with a picture of this place. Everyone was talking about how they would love to jump or have jumped into it after hiking. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

                                [–]cranched 14 points15 points ago

                                What's wrong with that place? You can see the bottom easily.

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                                    [–]your_penis 63 points64 points ago

                                    Down in the Florida Keys there was a cove where they submerged a row of washing machines for a lobster habitat. You could dive down and look into the algae covered washing machines, stick your hand into the darkness and hope it doesn't get pinched.

                                    [–]z4ni 187 points188 points ago

                                    Or not.

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                                      [–]slay_belle 575 points576 points ago

                                      I went swimming off the coast of Manitou island in Lake Michigan with some friends one summer. We had only been swimming for, maybe, 5 minutes when my friends stopped & told me to look down. I looked down & there was a GIANT freight ship about 10 feet below me. I screamed, freaked out & had to be dragged back to shore. It was one of the most traumatizing experiences of my life.

                                      [–]Britt_Solo 52 points53 points ago

                                      As a Michigander, I grew up on the Great Lakes. I was driving boats at a young age and jumping out of the boat in the middle of Lake Huron was no big deal to me.

                                      But now I wouldn't do that. It freaks me out. I can't see the bottom. And what if something is right under me. Your ship story scares the shit out of me.

                                      [–]seanbduff 52 points53 points ago

                                      There are no large predators in the waters of the great lakes. Try doing the same thing in ANY body of water in Florida. We used to go to swimming at this lake when I was a kid/teenager. I've been to the bottom out in the middle, which is roughly 25 ft. deep. I've also been swimming in that lake at night on multiple occasions. Stupidest thing I've ever done. We'd pull our cars up to the side of the lake and shine the headlights out over the water to see the yellow reflections off of the eyes of the handful of alligators watching us.

                                      [–]Britt_Solo 30 points31 points ago

                                      I know there's nothing that could eat me in the water, but it's dark and deep that it's scary.

                                      Yes, I would never swim in any natural body of water in Florida. I was just down there visiting a cousin in Winter Haven and he kept talking about all the gators he sees just in the tiny ponds on their golf course, never mind a lake. NOPE.

                                      [–]seanbduff 15 points16 points ago

                                      I guess that makes sense. I guess the difference between the unknown and the known is that you know in some scenarios "what's the worst that could happen?" Not knowing = infinity worst case scenario.

                                      [–]juicius 13 points14 points ago

                                      Bathtub is about as large a body of water in Florida I'd voluntarily get into. Even a pool is iffy. I've seen pictures of gators wandering into pools.

                                      [–]Talpostal 24 points25 points ago

                                      Nothing dangerous in the Great Lakes? I beg to differ! The North American Muskellunge is one of the meanest freshwater fish known to man.

                                      [–]Ezrado 8 points9 points ago

                                      Lol, that lake is basically a 5 armed swastika.

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                                        [–]yuki1986 20 points21 points ago

                                        You get an upvote for being a Michigander. Love our state, at least the norther parts. Best place is ludington. :D

                                        [–]Britt_Solo 10 points11 points ago

                                        Back at ya! I'm from Bay City, but up north to me is Presque Isle. I'm a sunrise-side girl, but I do enjoy visiting St. Joseph. Haven't been to Ludington yet though.

                                        [–]yuki1986 6 points7 points ago

                                        All beautiful places, I love that fact that at anytime we are less the 6 miles from water. We should all meet up this summer and have a Camp out/sesh anyone in?

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                                              [–]Nizzler 45 points46 points ago

                                              I've been a cottager and swimmer my entire life and nothing strikes fear in to my heart more than hearing these 2 words while swimming... "sea weed"

                                              [–]snarkyaardvark 24 points25 points ago

                                              Your fears are irrational, just because where ever you find seaweed you also find ISOPODS does't mean you should be squeamish.

                                              NSFL:

                                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

                                              In the isopods defence they quite cuddley and are just misunderstood.

                                              [–]strangler317 30 points31 points ago

                                              Guess I'll head over to r/spacedicks to ease my mind after seeing that thing...

                                              [–]snatchinyopeopleup 10 points11 points ago

                                              /r/ISOPODdicks

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                                                [–]Nizzler 12 points13 points ago

                                                wellp, that does it. Sell the cottage!

                                                [–]wootmonster 4 points5 points ago

                                                Those eyes... omfg those eyes!!!

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                                                    [–]thingsomething 141 points142 points ago

                                                    My feet after reading that

                                                    [–]NominalAeon 30 points31 points ago

                                                    I came here to say this is the scariest thing I've ever seen. I'm glad it's not just me.

                                                    [–]FearTheStache13 64 points65 points ago

                                                    I jumped out of a kayak once out in open water just for a second so i could get up into my friends boat. The second I hit the water I landed on something.... Turns out i landed on such a thick patch of seaweed I could almost stand completely up on it. I had no idea it was there because it had started to get dark and the water was pitch black. I was so scared I couldnt even scream.

                                                    [–]JohnnyIsRotten 53 points54 points ago

                                                    This reminds me of a story my dad told me about the time he and his brother went out to some lake for the weekend. They lived in rural Virginia and went camping with their buds where there was a rope swing over the lake. One of his friends took a leap off the rope and went under. A plume of blood came back up. This guy impaled himself through the leg on a stop sign carelessly placed there. I'm pretty sure that guy lived but I still find it completely unnerving.

                                                    [–]skafool 38 points39 points ago

                                                    This reminds me of when I went on a trip with a group of friends to these springs over in Suwanee River in Fl. We had a rope where you were swinging 50 ft above water. We were swinging in all day and riding a party boat to the small spring at the end where the water was clean and cold and had caves deep down underneath. Everything went well til the 2nd day we were there, it was like a horror movie. While I was on a speed boat, we kept getting the boat hit by something, I heard a scream right after and turned around to see one of the guys gfs who was skiing got hit in the face by a sturgeon. It shattered a bunch of bones in her face and she was rushed to the hospital. The sturgeons were what was hitting the boat since they fly up and punch things with their bodies apparently. later on that day when we were jumping off the ropes and into the water we continued till nightfall or rather until one of the guys saw there were gators rising in the water. Apparently they stay on the floor till night fall. Whats scary is that prior to his discovery, we would hit the floor bottom and try and grab things off the floor to see what was down there since the water was pretty deep and dark. I decided to stay in the clear water springs until we found snake nests. That pretty much did it for me and I stayed on land the rest of the trip.

                                                    [–]TitzMcG33 19 points20 points ago

                                                    Until I read this, I was planning our family reunion at a local river. Not any more. I think we'll stay in a hotel in Vegas now instead.

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                                                      [–]playa_mar_cielo 7 points8 points ago

                                                      Please tell me that they did not rip his leg off of the pole in order to get him out. I'm picturing the sign's pole going right through the meaty part of the guy's calf.

                                                      [–]JohnnyIsRotten 14 points15 points ago

                                                      I'm pretty sure it went through his thigh. I know that some people had to jump in to physically lift him off the sign.

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                                                        [–]brownie_pts 5 points6 points ago

                                                        I hate everything about seaweed. I don't even know what I would do in that case. You are a better person than I.

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                                                          [–]Salty-Sailor 43 points44 points ago

                                                          I've had an irrational fear of things I can see underwater (even logs and rocks will trigger it) for about as long as I can remember. This is particularly odd given that I spend a lot of time kayaking and sailing. That freighter would scare the bejesus out of me.

                                                          [–]Winston_Vodkatooth 17 points18 points ago

                                                          I've always had a fear of being able to see large things submerged underwater. Everything from sunken ships that are visible below the surface of the water, to tree stumps just inches underwater. I have absolutely no fear of swimming or swimming in large bodies of water - just seeing huge things underneath water. Nothing gives me more chills.

                                                          [–]unsureabout1 7 points8 points ago

                                                          It gives me sort of "fun" chills. I like trying to freak myself out when in lakes. If I ever ACTUALLY saw something huge under the water the lake would probably rise 2 meters because of how much I would piss myself.

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                                                              [–]Illadelphian 380 points381 points ago

                                                              Wow are this many people really scared about something like this? I would love to see a ship under the water where I was. I would want to go explore it haha, it's the exact opposite of scary to me. It's interesting and fascinating and I would probably spend as much time around it as possible.

                                                              Spiders can go fuck themselves though.

                                                              [–]ispeakcanadian 217 points218 points ago

                                                              I would love to go and explore it if I already knew it was there, but if I was swimming and just saw it, especially "hey look down!" I'd probably lose my mind.

                                                              [–]Illadelphian 64 points65 points ago

                                                              I dunno, if that was a shark or something then yea but not a ship. It's inanimate, I know it's not going to hurt me or anything so I would just want to go see it.

                                                              [–]OnlySanePanda 58 points59 points ago

                                                              I think the fear of submerged objects(esp. man-made) comes from the "haunting" visage these objects have, infused with the sense of helplessness one would feel when in a HUGE, DEEP, DARK body of water. Seeing a derelict vessel is unnerving enough to most people, let alone one in the middle of a lake. Pretty much the inherent fears of the unknown override natural curiosity for most people, especially when they're alone. It's just a clusterfuck of inherent fears that will unnerve the average human being, however irrational.

                                                              [–]clayt0n 148 points149 points ago

                                                              There are things living in the ship you can't see. They just can get out of one of the windows and bite/rape/call your mom and tell horrible things about you in no time... i would better see that coming.

                                                              [–]flourandbutter 81 points82 points ago

                                                              What if it's all three?

                                                              "Hello ma'am I'm calling to let you know that I've bitten your child and am now raping the shit out of it"

                                                              [–]AndroidHelp 43 points44 points ago

                                                              Call your mom and tell horrible things about you in no time.

                                                              I hate it when the sharks call my mom to tell her they caught me masturbating in the captains quarters of the abandoned ship =/

                                                              [–]fondlemeLeroy 5 points6 points ago

                                                              Just tell her it was a Great White Lie Shark.

                                                              [–]el_polar_bear 4 points5 points ago

                                                              "Dear Mum,

                                                              We've got your little boy, and if you don't give us lots of money, we're going to do nasty things to him.

                                                              Why? Because Tex wants to be rich, I've got a missing leg-bone, and Bulk needs brain surgery."

                                                              Superted <3

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                                                                [–]gerbilfood 24 points25 points ago

                                                                I think the part where the forlorn captain of the freighter who went down with the ship still clutching his bible given to him on his wedding day by his lost love who threw herself over the falls to be with him in a watery grave but they were never reunited so for ever and anon he leaves his watery tomb and seeks out swimmers' legs to grab to pull down to his cabin to keep as his new crew in hopes of sailing his vessel through the great lakes forever looking for his lost love. That's the part that would get me.

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                                                                  [–]F0REM4N 19 points20 points ago

                                                                  Yeah, but... Ghost ship!

                                                                  [–]PriestmanX 15 points16 points ago

                                                                  BUT WHAT IF IT WAS A GHOST SHIP!

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                                                                      [–]gameguy285 37 points38 points ago

                                                                      i think it would scare me in a "holy shit that could've been a man eating shark and i didn't even notice" kind of way

                                                                      [–]Apocol0id 90 points91 points ago

                                                                      If I was on a tour, I'd be delighted. But if it was random, I'd die. See, people are their most vulnerable in the water. We're not built for it. Anything freaks us out. From an eel, to a rock they didn't expect to be that close to their foot.

                                                                      [–]Colecoman1982 76 points77 points ago

                                                                      • The experience of being wrapped in water is disorienting
                                                                      • the range of vision is limited and tapers off into inky blackness
                                                                      • it's hard to gauge how far away things are
                                                                      • if you see something dangerous your ability to get away would be minimal.
                                                                      • The light outline of the ship provides a "window" in front of the inky blackness for unknown things to swim in front of. It's kind of like looking into the "infinite hallway" created by putting two mirrors face to face and being a little paranoid that something may move, independently, in one of the many inner reflections...

                                                                      These are the things that make it freaky for me.

                                                                      [–]paranoidinfidel 32 points33 points ago

                                                                      That plus if whatever is lurking in the water is big enough to sink a ship, eating a human is childs play.

                                                                      [–]van_buskirk 4 points5 points ago

                                                                      And you can't hear anything coming. That's what scares me.

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                                                                          [–]Antank123 18 points19 points ago

                                                                          I think for me it would just be looking down and realizing how deep the water actually is. I mean there's a whole ship below me and I'm on the very top. That's why the picture freaks me out.

                                                                          Edit: ship not shop

                                                                          [–]Coach_Seven 42 points43 points ago

                                                                          Another SCUBA diver here, if I was just randomly swimming and my foot brushed up against a wrecked ship I wasn't previously aware of, I'd freak the fuck out and theres a 99% chance I would not be going in there that day, reasons being I don't know what I'm going to find in there (bodies is my main fear in this case) and also I don't know if it's going to sink more once I swim inside of it. If I knew it was there beforehand and was planning on going for a wreck dive in it, I would be happy as a clam exploring for hours. Call it irrational if you want, I can't find the words to describe what it really is.

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                                                                            [–]Tatton 21 points22 points ago

                                                                            Oh god, my whole body cringed as I read that! Worst fear!!!

                                                                            [–]seany 20 points21 points ago

                                                                            When I read what that guy said up there about his foot touching it, I thought "What a pussy..."

                                                                            Then I read your comment, and now I definitely will not swim in bodies of water where I cannot see.

                                                                            [–]captainmorgan23 17 points18 points ago

                                                                            Is there possibly photos of this area/submerged ship online somewhere? I live in MI and that would scare me to death.

                                                                            [–]seanbduff 40 points41 points ago

                                                                            Best I could do - Google Maps link

                                                                            Slightly more info.

                                                                            Edit: flipped the brackets.

                                                                            [–]captainmorgan23 6 points7 points ago

                                                                            holy fucking shit that is terrifying. i think i would have passed out if i was you and suddenly saw that beneath me. i am so so sorry that happened to you.

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                                                                                [–]rderekp 26 points27 points ago

                                                                                In my home town, there was an abandoned quarry that was turned into a lake and people could swim in it. I would never do it because I was terrified of the abandoned quarry equipment at the bottom. Even though I knew they were a long way down. What if I got my foot caught on a crane and it didn’t let go?

                                                                                [–]TheCenterHolds 9 points10 points ago

                                                                                I knew of a similar situation....sunken excavator at a quarry-turned-lake. Local kids would occasionally try to swim the 50 or so feet down necessary to touch it.

                                                                                [–]molrobocop 11 points12 points ago

                                                                                Freediving: That's another NOPE.

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                                                                                  [–]Geminii27 9 points10 points ago

                                                                                  What if you swam in the lake and the crane saw you, and then that night the crane crawled out of the lake and soddenly down your street, squishing and clanking, and came in through your window to GET you...

                                                                                  Welp, g'nite!

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                                                                                    [–]TabularFantabular 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                    Relevant Information Table

                                                                                    Source Info + link
                                                                                    Wikipedia The ship you saw was probably the Francisco MorazonArticle)
                                                                                    Youtube Underwater video, not by me
                                                                                    EDIT I am probably wrong. Here is a link showing all of the wrecks at that location.

                                                                                    [–]iceman21 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                    What's so scary about a ship under the water?

                                                                                    [–]emlgsh 109 points110 points ago

                                                                                    It's not the ship, it's the former crew, now transformed in the briny depths into things neither living nor dead - improbably shaped horrors, scuttling out to drag swimmers down into the forgotten deeps, to join them.

                                                                                    [–]lonjaxson 45 points46 points ago

                                                                                    Thank you, I was almost out of nightmare fodder.

                                                                                    [–]ARecordMachine 34 points35 points ago

                                                                                    What is dead may never die....

                                                                                    [–]Whatsoup 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                    ...but rises again harder and stronger.

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                                                                                      [–]HeartbeatOfCreation 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                      Well, fuck. Now I'm afraid of submerged ships. Thanks a lot.

                                                                                      [–]ipoetlonu 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                      Or everyone made it off the ship safely and then went to Disney World to cheer themselves up, yeah!!! :) :) <3 <3 <3 :)

                                                                                      [–]dsutari 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                      "scuttling out" - thanks for the mental image.

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                                                                                        [–]sin_tax 20 points21 points ago

                                                                                        As someone who is creeped out by 'stuff' underwater, I think that a profound sense of 'wrongness' or something completely out of place contributes towards my feeling of unease. That said, wreck diving (SCUBA) is one of my favorite things to do, even if it gives me the heeby jeebies.

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                                                                                            [–]Nizzler 21 points22 points ago

                                                                                            At my cottage there is an underwater 'crib' which consists of 8 logs nailed together to form a big square (2 logs tall). As if this isn't terrifying enough in 10 feet of water, it has flipped up on its side so that you could (technically) actually swim through it. Needless to say, we joke about actually swimming through it, but eveyone knows it would just kill you and/or you would have a heart attack if you tried to swim anywhere near it. Oh, and god rest your soul if your foot ever touched it.

                                                                                            [–]VentureBrosef 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                            I have the same fear!

                                                                                            Growing up, I always went jet skiing with my friends because we had a shore home. Like a 30 minute ride from my house, there was a beached ship, what appeared to be a WWII freighter. It must've been there for decades, and was beached deep in the bay. After seeing that, I was always scared about the bottom of the bay, because you know there's cars and sunken ships down there. Not to mention you see signs all over saying "cable crossing" or "warning gas line crossing".

                                                                                            One day I got stuck right near that ship. I had to push my jet ski barefoot like 100 feet in muck to get it unstuck. It was the longest hour ever. My foot sunk about 2 feet down almost every step. After one step, I hit what I think was a metal pipe deep in the mud and jumped right on the jet ski. That shit's traumatizing man

                                                                                            [–]spect3r 16 points17 points ago

                                                                                            I was swimming in Northern Alberta once, and I can't remember the lake... but we were close to shore and I looked down only to see a carcass of a moose, or an elk... ( was so scared, I didn't stop to gaze) underwater. Its antlers were covered in slime and poking up just a few inches from my feet, and mostly just skeleton. Some fleshy bits still floating around. It either sunk in and couldn't get out, or froze in the winter, and when spring came got caught under there and didn't float to the top.

                                                                                            I just about had a heart attack.

                                                                                            [–]SteiniDJ 13 points14 points ago

                                                                                            All. The. Time.

                                                                                            I heard a story of a bachelor's party gone wrong in Iceland. They took the groom-to-be to a fjord not far away from Reykjavik. The whalers bring their prey to this fjord where it's pulled ashore to be processed.

                                                                                            So they get him somewhat drunk and dress him up in a dry suit and, against his will, pull him out to sea and tie him to a buoy. The party then leaves. The groom is helpless, floating in the cold, dark ocean and scared shitless. That's when the diver they had hired started pulling his feet. That's also when he was hit by a massive nervous breakdown.

                                                                                            So, he's pulled to shore and apparently suffers from PTSD to this day. The individuals who held the party and hired the divers weren't invited to the wedding.

                                                                                            Who needs enemies when you have friends like these?

                                                                                            [–]twist3d7 29 points30 points ago

                                                                                            Holy crap. It's a free boat. A bit of a fixer upper, but it's a free boat.

                                                                                            [–]Flexen 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                            My #1 fear. And I thought I was alone.

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                                                                                              [–][deleted] 54 points55 points ago

                                                                                              As someone who dives shipwrecks as a hobby, I often get creeped out by what I see. I can recall diving a passenger ferry in Thailand that sank under dubious circumstances (read: insurance fraud). You could still see the deck chairs on the passenger deck, and it was easy to imagine the confusion as she sank.

                                                                                              [–]poikes 20 points21 points ago

                                                                                              I love the creepy feel of floating around a shipwreck.

                                                                                              Dived a couple of plane wrecks in the Caribbean as well. Those are proper spooky (esp. as I hate flying).

                                                                                              [–]BeachNWhale 21 points22 points ago

                                                                                              was this somewhere between Phuket and Ko Phi Phi? if so i dove that same wreck. The freakiest thing for me was using the bouy rope to pull yourself down and the rough waters so we couldn't see anything but murky water and sediment until we were right on top of the wreck. Oh yea, i almost ran out of air, 30 meters down, had to buddy breath with my dive instructer on the way back up..good times man, good times.

                                                                                              [–][deleted] 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                              Yup, I believe it is called the King Cruiser. Its a tricky dive because of the depth and current, and I also remember it being very dark.

                                                                                              [–]BeachNWhale 13 points14 points ago

                                                                                              very dark, super strong current. not so bad when we got to the wreck but going down and up it was rather scary. not quite as scary as the night dive we did on that same trip tho..night dives man...fuck that, never again.

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                                                                                                  [–]WorkWork 90 points91 points ago

                                                                                                  YES. What the hell is this?! I went on a tour of the queen mary a couple years ago and they had this exhibit of a propeller underwater in the interior of the ship and it made me really uncomfortable to even look at it.

                                                                                                  images of said exhibit (fuck it even gave me the creeps googling the images): http://i.imgur.com/eFuFL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IaovF.jpg

                                                                                                  [–]Xyzzzy 78 points79 points ago

                                                                                                  ugh why on earth is a propeller that scary..? I've always had a fear of things under water. Ironic because I was a competitive swimmer for years but anything other than a pool gives me the creeps

                                                                                                  [–]FreakingScience 117 points118 points ago

                                                                                                  You know exactly how far down you can go in a pool. In the open ocean, it's completely impossible to judge depth visually.

                                                                                                  Imagine that you're on a boat, looking out at the horizon. Someone turns to you, and gently whispers: "See all that water? That's just the top."

                                                                                                  If you look at this bathymetry map of Earth, all of those blue and purple areas (-4000m or greater) are further down than the furthest water you can actually see in the distance along the horizon.

                                                                                                  And we don't know much about it.

                                                                                                  EDIT: Relevant and informative XKCD. Click it for a large version.

                                                                                                  [–]luckyButtonMasher 44 points45 points ago

                                                                                                  your username is SO accurate right now.

                                                                                                  [–]FreakingScience 20 points21 points ago

                                                                                                  I Endeavour.

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                                                                                                    [–]nusmesa 29 points30 points ago

                                                                                                    Yea the seas are scary. Whenever i go to the seaside i like to swim a bit further then where people usually stay. Anyway in Romania, Mamaia the beach goes out like 50-70 meters (maybe more) then takes a huge drop in depth all of the sudden. As i was going out as usual that scared the shit out of me. Went back to get a pair of diving glasses so i can take a look and it scared me shitless. Beach was going all shallow and then dropping to great depths. I couldn't see the bottom, just black, and the water gets colder out there, by a lot, so the whole feeling is ... terrifying.

                                                                                                    [–]EllKayBee 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                    I've sailed over a lot of those blue and purple areas and it's awesome out there :) Here in the Hawaiian Islands you only have to go a couple of miles offshore and the water depth is over 12,000ft.

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                                                                                                      [–]telegrammarian 22 points23 points ago

                                                                                                      Nothing ironic about that at all. I was a competitive swimmer for a few years, and I have a lot of friends who were as well, and almost all of them admit to having a fear or finding something unexpected in the water. Mine was always a prehistoric version of a great white shark, or an alligator.

                                                                                                      [–]NoodleToucher 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                      Ever seen an alligator while swimming? Scary as fuck.

                                                                                                      [–]lonjaxson 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                                      This ruined pools for me for a LONG time.

                                                                                                      Edit: Start at 18:00..

                                                                                                      [–]devilsadvocated 9 points10 points ago

                                                                                                      I was never competitive, and calling what I do "swimming" is an insult to most amateur swimmers, but when I was doing what passes for laps for me in a nice, clean, clear, safe, pool, I came face to face with a water snake. I'm pretty sure, for just a moment, I solved the mystery of levitation, or I broke a high jump record. Either way, I saved the little guy who was probably scared out of his damn mind, with a pool net, and have always circled empty pools before getting in them ever since.

                                                                                                      [–]dsutari 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                      Ugh. A rattlesnake on land made me shit myself, I can't imagine being in the water where I couldn't back away quickly.

                                                                                                      Fuck, fuck, fuck snakes.

                                                                                                      [–]ShockerOnShockStreet 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                      My mom is a triathlete who was training in a lake in Massachusetts at 4am before work. One morning she was in the middle (~100 feet deep) and something grabbed her by the ankle from under the water. Apparently a scuba diver was surveying the lake for the land owner and was equally surprised when he was nearly run down while reaching the surface. Yup, too terrifying for me to even imagine.

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                                                                                                        [–]turlian 22 points23 points ago

                                                                                                        I'd rather look at pics of spiders.

                                                                                                        [–]thekilljoy 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                        My favorite part of the QM! I've spent a rather.. excessive amount of time wandering around that boat and I love the acoustics down there. If you can get lucky and spend time in there alone it takes on an otherworldly feel.

                                                                                                        Then again, it scared the shit out of you, so getting you alone in there could produce the entirely incorrect 'otherworldly feel'.

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                                                                                                          [–]Murcielago311 62 points63 points ago

                                                                                                          Is there a name for this phobia? I've only come across others with this on Reddit. Real-life people don't get it. "You're afraid of submarines?" Hell yes, I'm afraid of submarines!

                                                                                                          [–]Okuhou 31 points32 points ago

                                                                                                          I have had that same conversation a million times before. People do not understand why the idea horrifies me. And cruise ships. I will never go on a cruise. Thanks a lot, Titanic.

                                                                                                          [–]shiggidyschwag 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                                          You're really missing out with the cruise thing.

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                                                                                                            [–]SequencedConvenience 15 points16 points ago

                                                                                                            All my life I've had this fear of "large, underwater objects," but have never met anyone else who feels the same way I do. When I was 6 years old, I had a panic attack on the old submarine ride at Disneyland.

                                                                                                            [–]PentagramPizzaParty 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                            Whales for me, but same idea!

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                                                                                                              [–]Claytonius_Homeytron 23 points24 points ago

                                                                                                              Images of sunken ships have always given me goose bumps. Whenever I see images like this I shiver and can't look at it for very long. Don't know why though. Maybe it's because it seems unnatural and out of place.

                                                                                                              [–]byfuryattheheart 63 points64 points ago

                                                                                                              Totally. I'm actually getting a little stressed out just looking at it.

                                                                                                              [–]DrDragun 61 points62 points ago

                                                                                                              Maybe this will settle you back down

                                                                                                              [–]GroinSniper 52 points53 points ago

                                                                                                              My son and I watched that episode and we couldn't believe what assholes those whales were. Then we saw the other episode with the asshole caribou that flipped the baby one into the wolves. Nature's just full of assholes.

                                                                                                              [–]DrDragun 27 points28 points ago

                                                                                                              Hungry will make you an asshole I guess. Even worse than this was when the killer whales drowned the gray whale calf by body slamming it down when it came up to breathe.

                                                                                                              [–]l0ve2h8urbs 19 points20 points ago

                                                                                                              we should never have freed willy...

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                                                                                                                [–]Andythefan 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                what is that under the water?????????

                                                                                                                edit: Derp. I just read the URL. At first I thought it was some sort of large metal object that was just barely grazing the surface of the water.

                                                                                                                [–]samfreez 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                Killer Whales

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                                                                                                                      [–]thisissuperb 37 points38 points ago

                                                                                                                      Yeah, it reminds me of this that was posted yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/iXTvb.jpg It's a sunken Japanese plane from WWII in the South Pacific.

                                                                                                                      [–]happywaffle 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                      That one is worse for me. When I see the first pic, I think the ship probably sank slowly in swimmable water and the crew was (hopefully) rescued safely. So no it doesn't freak me out. The plane though… shudders

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                                                                                                                        [–]wojtech 40 points41 points ago

                                                                                                                        I only came to the comments to see if anyone else was as freaked out as I was. Glad to know I'm not alone.

                                                                                                                        [–]powerfat 15 points16 points ago

                                                                                                                        Your mind can play games and imagine scary sea monsters, but seeing something so familiar, yet disheveled and broken, is what makes sunken ships so terrifying. Being above the surface and still seeing the wreck makes this photo even creepier. Water is scary

                                                                                                                        [–]red321red321 21 points22 points ago

                                                                                                                        winter is coming

                                                                                                                        [–]moremanthanyou 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                        I feel like it's the closest I'll ever get to seeing the inside of a coffin while I'm still alive.

                                                                                                                        [–]crapallthetime 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                        Hell yes. I grew up on the shores of the St. Lawrence river and crap underwater creeps the shit out of me.

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                                                                                                                          [–]Cestdujamaisvu 125 points126 points ago

                                                                                                                          I developed a fear for deep water when I was vacationing in Ibiza.

                                                                                                                          At one point I swam out too far and got dragged away a bit by the current. Not such a big problem considering I'm a pretty good swimmer so getting ashore was not really a problem.

                                                                                                                          The problem was that the sea had in fact dragged me to an area where seaweed covered the expanse of water between myself and the beach. I had no other option than to swim over this expanse of water to reach the coast.

                                                                                                                          Where the water is usually very clear and you can see about 6 to 10 meters deep to the bottom in Ibiza, because of the dark seaweed I couldn't see the bottom, only the vast expanse of dark waving tentacles underneath.

                                                                                                                          I swam across fully knowing that at some point I would start feeling the seaweed as I approached the beach and the sea became more shallow.

                                                                                                                          Nastiest experience I had for a long time.

                                                                                                                          It looked something like this only much more dense and darker.

                                                                                                                          [–]POWERFUCKER 51 points52 points ago

                                                                                                                          This, my friend, is nightmare fuel.

                                                                                                                          [–]unsureabout1 38 points39 points ago

                                                                                                                          http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/is_it_tentacle_season_again.jpg

                                                                                                                          [–]power_of_friendship 19 points20 points ago

                                                                                                                          Is that a real picture of seaweed being taken up in a wave?

                                                                                                                          [–]orange_kevin 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                                                          Yes.

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                                                                                                                              [–]LALocal305 15 points16 points ago

                                                                                                                              The problem was that the sea had in fact dragged me to an area where seaweed covered the expanse of water between myself and the beach. I had no other option than to swim over this expanse of water to reach the coast.

                                                                                                                              Reading this gave me goosebumps and made me shiver. If this happened to me I would probably freeze up and end up getting dragged further out into the sea.

                                                                                                                              [–]Obidom 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                              Shit, that happened to me too when I lived there, luckily I was swept out from San Antonio Bay and it was a very small patch of seaweed i had to swim over, but it looks to fucking scary though

                                                                                                                              [–]qwertyvibe 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                              Last year I signed up for a four snorkeling trip in Dana Point. I drove 30 minutes to Dana Point where the tour began. I thought we would snorkel in this area for four hours but to my dismay the tour took us on a boat ride up the coast for an hour. This was never mentioned in the groupon and it was very unfortunate because I get incredibly sea sick. As a result I ended up puking for 30 minutes and had finally decided that I was going to swim to shore instead of endure another 3 hours of it.

                                                                                                                              I told the captain of the ship my intentions and he shrugged his shoulders at me. My buddies couldn't believe I was going to ditch the tour but no one tried to stop me. Off I went, I proceeded to swim the distance of about 3/4 of a mile from sea to shore. Swimming on the surface of the waves still gave me motion sickness so I continued to chum it up through the snorkel I was wearing. Looking down I realized that the boat had taken us to some area where the ocean dense with seaweed. I assume this is where much of the sea life congregates since they chose this spot. I couldn't help but wonder what sea life was going to be attracted to all of the puke that I was letting out. At about 1/2 from the shore I could see and feel the seaweed brushing against my legs and getting tangled around my ankles. The thought made me want to kick harder but I was already exhausted from throwing up and swimming. When I finally passed the kelp bed and got to where the surfers were i felt much more relieved. Then I got to shore and asked the life guard if I could borrow his phone to call a friend to come pick me up.

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                                                                                                                                [–]MJCPRODUCTIONZ 44 points45 points ago

                                                                                                                                I'd like to know how it wound up there.

                                                                                                                                [–]loki010[S] 97 points98 points ago

                                                                                                                                Here is a photograph of the vessel sinking.

                                                                                                                                Here are some other photographs.

                                                                                                                                Poor Google translate from the Russian website:

                                                                                                                                07/04/2012 at night in the Antarctic Ardley Bay (in the same bay where the Russian Antarctic station Bellingshausen) Brazilian boat sank "Mar Sem Fim" the crew was evacuated three days ago. hit no. A private yacht owned by a citizen of Brazil. used for scientific and educational expeditions ... the yacht had a problem with the gross, three weeks, they repaired to the Argentine polar station, and when were ready to put forward in the direction of Brazil started the storm that they decided to wait in Ardley Bay. had a strong waves and the captain decided to land a crew on the Chilean station to rest, at night the bay zabilo ice and two days later a boat overturned iceberg ... Fortunately no one was hurt ...

                                                                                                                                [–]laughingwithkafka 100 points101 points ago

                                                                                                                                Please, for the love of god, look at the icons of the people commenting.

                                                                                                                                [–]poops_on_midgets 51 points52 points ago

                                                                                                                                They're so... Russian.

                                                                                                                                [–]lastwind 26 points27 points ago

                                                                                                                                Those no icon. This icon.

                                                                                                                                [–]daveyjam 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                ruschili creeps me out

                                                                                                                                [–]laughingwithkafka 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                                                He looks like Lance Bass from NSYNC circa 1998

                                                                                                                                [–]dsutari 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                I'm just impressed Livejournal found a country that still uses them.

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                                                                                                                                  [–]aceonw 22 points23 points ago

                                                                                                                                  I started reading the translation, trying to understand it. Then remembered that I speak and read Russian fluently. clicks on link

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                                                                                                                                      [–]slacksalot 113 points114 points ago

                                                                                                                                      My first thought was this is a chilling image. I then hated myself for thinking in puns, but still think this is a great photo.

                                                                                                                                      [–]ace_invader 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                                                                      My second thought was: just strap a buoy to it, then everyone still has a good time

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                                                                                                                                        [–]voneahhh 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                                                                        FREEZING! Can't sail at all!

                                                                                                                                        [–]BonutDot 89 points90 points ago

                                                                                                                                        That gives me an awesome idea! You lay out strips of lightweight metal like aluminium to form words, like "help stuck under ice", then take them to somewhere in Antarctica and attach them to the ground with a long metal chain and flat clear plastic plates.

                                                                                                                                        When the sun is up for 6 months at a time, it will heat the letters+chain and they'll slowly melt through the ice, leaving future archaeologists terribly confused.

                                                                                                                                        U mad, future penguin farmers? :D

                                                                                                                                        [–]luckyButtonMasher 43 points44 points ago

                                                                                                                                        upvoting solely for the thought of penguins being farmed

                                                                                                                                        [–]SonOfOnett 49 points50 points ago

                                                                                                                                        Captain America must be freed!

                                                                                                                                        [–]Rajio 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                                                                        That looks like what we call "Liquid ice" also known as "water"

                                                                                                                                        [–]ElusiveHiggsBoson 30 points31 points ago

                                                                                                                                        Looks like one of Gob Bluth's magic trick

                                                                                                                                        [–]histumness 33 points34 points ago

                                                                                                                                        Illusions, Michael!

                                                                                                                                        [–]HotbutteryToast 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                                                                        Oh buoy, thats not good.

                                                                                                                                        [–]gm2 23 points24 points ago

                                                                                                                                        Freezing, can't move at all
                                                                                                                                        Screaming, can't hear my call
                                                                                                                                        I am dying to live, cry out
                                                                                                                                        I'm trapped under ice!

                                                                                                                                        [–]pbUjelly 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                        \m/

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                                                                                                                                          [–]mscarce 130 points131 points ago

                                                                                                                                          Sorry but that is not trapped under the ice. If anything there might be a thin thin layer of ice.

                                                                                                                                          [–]eagleapex 107 points108 points ago

                                                                                                                                          ERROR: No ice detected.
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                                                                                                                                          Reason: misleading title.

                                                                                                                                          [–]sreddit 26 points27 points ago

                                                                                                                                          downboat

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                                                                                                                                            [–]dsaavedra 61 points62 points ago

                                                                                                                                            *...better be Metallica, better be Metallica, better be Metallica... *

                                                                                                                                            satisfied

                                                                                                                                            [–]iseeyoutroll 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                                                            Aye, the link was purple for me, so I was thinking the same thing.

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                                                                                                                                                  [–]RXrenesis8 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  TIL this is a phobia a lot of people on reddit have.

                                                                                                                                                  [–]prunejuice 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  Aang?

                                                                                                                                                  [–]aocarson 27 points28 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  I love ships. I have seen Ghost Ship 8 times. Triangle is also good. I just watched Titanic a few weeks ago because I realized it had a ship; great engine room scenes. Perfect Calm is a great 80s ship movie. Again; Ghost Ship. And the Wikipedia page about ghost ships.

                                                                                                                                                  Ships

                                                                                                                                                  [–]dsutari 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  We don't give a ship.

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                                                                                                                                                    [–]Wide_Ocean 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                                                                                    Oh geez, it's the coast guard..

                                                                                                                                                    [–]AstronautOnFire 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                                                    /r/AbandonedPorn

                                                                                                                                                    [–]jcmcbeth 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                    I'm so glad that was safe for work.

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                                                                                                                                                      [–]TheBestBigAl 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      Damn you Harry Kim and your incorrect phase variances!

                                                                                                                                                      [–]ClearlyJustified 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      thanks for making my palms sweat. I have an irrational fear of man made things under water. Even a tire in a lake will make me lose my shit.

                                                                                                                                                      [–]CircumcisedSpine 2 points3 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      It was just supposed to be a three hour tour.

                                                                                                                                                      [–]CptReynolds 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      I love swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. The water is so clear I could see the bottom no problem even when it was 30-40 feet deep. I kept going once. I had on a mask and snorkel and was just looking at the sea floor as I was swimming. It got deeper and deeper but wasn't scary because I could see the bottom and I just kept looking below me.

                                                                                                                                                      Well, all of a sudden the water started getting very cold. Instead of looking down I tilted my head up so I was looking straight ahead of me. All I could see was a drop off where the sand disappeared and a wall of dark blue nothingness. I looked at it for a few seconds and realized this was where the big fish lived and then popped my head up to look back at the shore. I had gone way the fuck out there. Roughly a quarter mile or so. First thought? "This is how I die." Second thought, "ok, turning around, going back, and NOT getting eaten."

                                                                                                                                                      If you want to see where I went look here zoom in a bit:

                                                                                                                                                      https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=okaloosa+island+fishing+pier&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

                                                                                                                                                      To the left of the pier (looking at it from the map view) out to where the second band of shallow water turns dark was where I swam out to. So pretty much parallel to the end of the pier but off to the left by about 600 meters or so looking at it in the map view.

                                                                                                                                                      [–]hinduguru 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      I think I got shivers just looking at that

                                                                                                                                                      [–]IAMTHEDOM 18 points19 points ago

                                                                                                                                                      Ha! Shivers. About a boat. In Antarctica. Ha!

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