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davegoround
Every once in a while I see that picture of Jacob's Well with me in it, randomly, on the internet. Odd, but thanks for the repost. It was a good day. :D
Jonson71
Dark water's terrifying and all but one time in Greece I was floating out on a little inflatable thing and about 40 yards from shore the sand dropped away radically. Suddenly I was no longer 10 feet above the ground, I was 100 feet above it, and the water was perfectly clear, the bright sunlight revealing the bottom without fail. For whatever reason it was terrifying. I felt so small and the world so large. Like I was this tiny floating speck, an infinite distance from anything.
DrMachinegun12
Posted it here before but I took this one in the south Atlantic
VerySmallDuck
Youhavinagiraffe
I went kayaking in an old flooded abandoned mine shaft. I paddled down a narrow winding tunnel full of water but it kept getting narrower and narrowe as I went until I couldn't continue. It bumped my headtorch on the way and it was intermittently flickering. I couldn't turn the kayak around or twist my body to see behind me so had to back paddle out without seeing where I was going
Totallyscrewedinaustin
...and did you learn your lesson?
natebitatibetan
Some of these are quite beautiful...
CallMeMcGyver
As a kid in Italy, I was snorkeling along a cliff wall and accidentally swam into an underwater cave… wondering why the hell it got dark so quickly (in that part, bad storms can arise quickly) I swam up bumped my head on rock and found there was probably a foot of airspace… the absolute blackness and sound of the water smacking on the ceiling was motivation to swim the fuck out of there at light speed… also having just finished a HP Lovecraft book probably added a few KPH…
EntropyReign
Yeah, big nope on that experience! that would stick with me as well.
Freyja33
Midgarmerc
It's wild that there's just spots you can venture into and find dead bodies that are impossible to extract
ArcadiaBerger
Ne Plus Ultra - the inscription which either means, "You Must Go No Further - We Went, And It Sucked!", or, "We Only Got This Far - If You Go Further, You Get To Be The First!"
joeyecho101
If you're not scared of the ocean then you haven't thought about it enough.
Misteree8
#6 that seal looks terrifying in the dark
justworkdamnyou
Is a Leopard Seal. Sucker looks terrifying in the light too. Don't get me wrong, I love seals but hooo boy I would not wanna come up on one in a bad mood.
Misteree8
I think thats the difference of actually confronting one versus just viewing from a distance. At this point most wild animals i would be cautious when they are within touching/biting distance.
GhostOTM
Exactly why subnautica is such an exceptional game.
AtlasMorrow
Retired deep ocean hydraulics engineer here. Big open ocean that’s deep isn’t bad, deep dark small holes is what you are likely scared about. That being said, all of the deep stuff I have worked (10,000’+) we have machines doing the work so I’m looking through a video feed. If I was inside some sort of submersible looking out into the blackness that would be a bit different…
ArcadiaBerger
What scares me about the depths is that we are reckless enough to actually try to engage in engineering at depths where the pressure is such that we can't predict how a bucket (a bucket!) will behave. Yes, I am referring to the Deepwater Horizon, and why should I not? It wasn't even all that deep, nowhere near multiple kilometers down, and yet...a BUCKET behaved in ways we did not expect. Or am I wildly misinterpreting what happened, Sir or Madam?
AtlasMorrow
The failures onboard Deepwater Horizon orient around the Blowout Preventer, called the BOP. I was a Subsea’s engineer, I worked on BOPs of every design. Reckless is not the right term, the engineering of modern oil and gas exploration is nothing short of remarkable. Not to sound like a big oil spokesman but I can say with incredible confidence that the failures that occurred on the DWH won’t happen again. We have made very serious changes in design and operations.
ArcadiaBerger
I have a profound respect for the accomplishments of engineers working at the extremes of known environments, from the ocean floor to deep space. I have no doubt we will reach further than now thought possible by most, and it will be done by those who approach problems with care and deliberation and awareness that blame for error falls "not on the steel, but on the man". My horror at the DWH was that we were working, as I said, in an environment where even a bucket did not behave as expected.
IndigoThursday
It's just fear of heights but upside down
Filanwizard
We know less about the ocean than we do about space, exploration wise. In part because surprisingly space is easier, its not a good environment but your probe or craft is only dealing with radiation, hard temperature swings and radiation. But that is easier to build for than hundreds of atmospheres of pressure at the depths of the ocean floor.
FetteredJuvenescence
The fact that space is mostly transparent and the ocean isn't exactly, is also a factor.
dashers
I feel this often quoted factoid underplays just how mind boggling big space is. Though I get the sentiment that we spend more time and money looking at space than what is right here already.
kadaeux
Not really, you're not entirely wrong (And given how much new we learn annually about space, you're almost certainly right) but IIRC the quote is accurate when you apply it to space itself (so to speak) and orbital dynamics etc. Knowing more about space =/= knowing more about other planets and moons. Either way it's a phrase that serves little purpose except scaremongering the ocean.
gypsyspot
how do you quantify knowing more about one than the other. Are you talking about a percentage of the whole of information? because that's impossible to know, or just generally the total amount of information? It's a strange statement that I have heard before but doesn't feel like it's really saying anything
kadaeux
Yup. It *is* a strange thing to say when examined closely. And honestly I’m not sure any scientist in the field would actually say or support it.
MickeyCallahan
By volume, there is way more well-observed outer space than ocean depths, lol.
kadaeux
Well observed doesn’t necessarily mean well known. After all, the stars were fairly well observed back when humanity thought the sky was a short way up and everything revolved around the earth :p
thundercactus
Space is "easy" because we're doing the most basic surface level observations of things, and there's many things to do that to. We know more about the bottom of the ocean, including its geography, than we do about the surfaces of Titan and Venus combined.
But it's way easier to shoot a probe past a few moons and do some surface level observations at -1atm than it is to scour every sq ft of the ocean at over 500atm of pressure.
thundercactus
Furthermore, it's really just uninformed people misquoting something they heard once and not understanding the context of what we know about the ocean OR what we know about our solar system.
3PiecesOfBread
If I were Superman I’d spend all my time exploring the ocean
2fligh2high
CallMeMcGyver
Whales meditating…
RooGryphon
telling the probe they are still here
htapoicoS
I love them
timmargh
Whale, I'll be damned.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Sleepin
Imtoolazytothinkofaname
Is that what’s going on here ?
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Yup
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2023/apr/04/a-whale-sleeping-vertically-they-look-like-they-could-stop-time
Twinklepot
Here's a nicer pic for you
SmilinSloth
Maybe for you but that's still a big nope for me dawg
PandAnomoly
I think the presence of land makes this oke for me
MadnerKami
For someone with Thalasophobia, you just posted one of the most gruesome pictures there is...
GabbyJayYay
What has Thalas done to you to fear him?
Pyrowolf1
But that's fear of deep water and this is shallow water...
PandAnomoly
Yeah I was about to say this is extremely pleasant to me. I hate deep open ocean with a passion, it terrifies me.
PandAnomoly
I... Huh? I have this and the island picture is not... Not remotely close to that
StaticError
All this ai stuff, combined with imgur humor, has caused me to stare at this image, squinting and crossing my eyes for some kind of hidden message.
RunsNakedThroughSwamps
Nah those are just some thai boats. Ai kinda sucks at writing
Showsni
@botdraw Coastal scene with boats with writing on them
PandAnomoly
Ah, yeah Thai written out are a bunch of drink snakes waiting in line
Jagshusband
That one ripple of water looks vaguely like a penis.
TheBlueSquid
Well damn, now I'm gonna need a red circle and some arrows!
BobbyVegana
Antzii
AvsFreak
Snooj
YOU GOT ANY GAMES ON YOUR PHONE
TheGgreen100
Haha ok this one got me. Wasn't expecting that.
StopTheWorldIWannaGetOff
Would have been a lot scarier if imgur on android didnt play the vid at like 2 frames a second.
Carl99
That looks like some soulsborne nonsense.
CaptainCrunch2557
*healthbar appears
*choir starts choiring
wabitgirl
harry Potter DId YOU PUT YOURNAMEINTHEGOBBLETOFFIYAH>!?!?!?!
highisophotography
I wish I had more than one upvote to give 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
joshuasplinth
God he was such a fucking bad Dumblediddy.
HunterZer0
NOPE. NOPE. FUCK YOU.
syrane303
Damn got me good
GoodNewsCigaretteJuice
Woulda been a lot cooler to have the fish scatter off as it rose up
thebigcheese
I'm getting Ulysses 31 vibes from those statues!
ricpaul
Not the best pic, but it is a deep well in New Zealand. I swam next to it but even though it produces huge amounts of water, I didn't dare swim over it (swimming isn't allowed anyway...)
PrincessBride1
#4 is freshwater, not the ocean. That's Jacob's Well in Texas.
UnpinionedPoplars
If you get the chance to go, be sure to BOOK A RESERVATION.
jwna.checkfront.com/reserve
We didn't realize they restrict the crowds, so we considered ourselves lucky to find a sympathetic attendant on duty who let us take the last half hour or so of someone else's abandoned reservation.
There's a lot to do there, even when the well itself is off limits (Oct-Apr it's closed to allow 'habitat recovery').
https://hayscountytx.com/departments/hays-county-parks-recreation/jacobs-well-natural-area
PrincessBride1
Thank you! I've been to Jacob's Well many times, but not recently. Long ago in my youth reservations were not needed. :)
bhobby1212
You really want to get freaked out check out aerated water
ilasid
Easy to drown in an open bed aerator at wastewater treatment plants. You are no longer buoyant.
bhobby1212
parabolic000
Subnautica is fun* for this very reason. *note: this definition of fun does not preclude abject terror, isolation, and dread.
FelixG
Same with ARK survival evolved. I had a blast on the land portion, then I had to get black pearls, and I wanted to die inside...
justworkdamnyou
#6 is just a friendly lil Leopard Seal. It just wants to give you a hug.. with it's teeth. A mouth hug if you will.
WaxDragon
Unlike dry holes, you can hang out over wet holes! Just don't put on weights and you'll be fine
OhIfIMust
Yeah, but there might be, like, STUFF down there, y'know?
SnakesInBowties
Depths are just deep heights.
jimmehboi
Your mom was deep heights last night.
captaininsaiyano
mrsdowneyjr
I was starting a swim in an Olympic sized pool for the first time, swimming from 4 toward 12 feet. When the gradual decline turned precipitous I panicked from the sudden height and had to get out.
Rockafella83
“…For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. -Nietzsche
solutionorppt
Deep.
wisher1977
Mother Earth has some scary holes!
ShibesKeanu
But everything looks perfect from far away, come up now, they’ll say.
ShortKiltLongWaistcoat
BurrhusBacchus
rbudrick
At the equator, they are technically widths.
Bananasandwiches42
Triggering my bathophobia hardcore right now.
SeeJenJen
OMG Right?! I grew up swimming in the ocean but these pic freak me the F OUT!
Conqueeftadore
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
thedreadpiratehalfbeard
And I don't like either
MichaelMars
I don't like either
htapoicoS
Oh thanks, that helps a lot!
Dyslexiya
Truer words have not been spoken
sh17picker69000420
It's the width I cant stand.
rumandbass
I think drowning is a lot scarier than falling to your death. At least falling can be fun.
FlashHardwood
With more darkness, hostility and unknown.
SquirrelHaven
Yeah, I can swim, but can't fly. That's the difference.
Wozzup
I dunno man, I've been seeing plenty of hostility up here
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
And heavier...much, much heavier.
Romulus216
As experienced by that one submarine
metalrulercid
#6 if you look in a hole and it bites your face whole, it's a moraaaayyyy
OhIfIMust
When its jaws open wide, and there's more jaws inside!
FelixG
I think thats a seal though
Zetor
Thalassophobia it is called
somnif
Logic, it is called.
DorkJedi
I like to point out to the thalassophobia folks that I swam over the Marianas trench.
Midgarmerc
AvsFreak
Lol I would in a heartbeat. However you could NEVER get me to go underwater spelunking.
RuBisCO1
DaveSamsonite
ChatGPT has no problem with an angled slope where sand would just continually down into the hole? Looks to me like it’s been rotated but the wave surface makes it hard to tell.
RuBisCO1
Chatgpt only knows what is has been told, it "lives" in plato's cave, the fact it manages this must is amazing.
DaveSamsonite
Downvotes don’t scuba dive or understand gravity. PADU certified, 571 dives over 36 yrs :). Seen many an abyss.
odinragnarok
PotatOSLament
This is the dumbest shit. Half the “scares” that use this format are nonsense. There’s already a giant one coming for me, a slightly smaller one coming at me a little faster doesn’t make me more fucked over.
odinragnarok
despite the down votes and me posting the original - I agree.
Joltbox
NOT FRIEND SHAPED!
wherewehavebeen
coffin1987
Fuckkkk you got me
iwishjtmoneywasstillavailableitsmyoldvideogamemoniker
I knew it was coming and it still made my hair stand up.
Carl99
Hello Dark Bramble
htapoicoS
fascinating
WarlockWithNoPatron
thekeyofe
This right here is why I couldn't finish Outer Wilds, and never dared to play Subnautica.
ChareAndFlaff
Confession: I too watched the Outer Wilds ending on youtube. Double confession: I wasn't scared, I just got stuck on the puzzles and got tired of feeling like a dumb dumb.
SlyMrFox
I couldn't get past the ship controls.
ToonMan4351
Seminole4ever
JonSnowAKAAegonTargaryen
Hey, stop that. Last thing we need is the subnautica devs to get ideas for another.
Carl99
Pretty sure this is based on the Dark Bramble from Outer Wilds.
Nightelfbane
They're already making a new one...that's already attracted se controversy.
BoobJiggle
Controversy from square enix?
wabitgirl
Hell, if it gets the feeling of the game back to the first one after the absolutely not stressful or scary experience of Subzero, I'm here for it. The first game made me scream aloud. The second one was... just so meh. Give us back the hardcore isolation and terrifying unknown depths!
zebulorg
Played it in VR and I also definitely screamed out loud
darkstarmc
Subzero was only stressful in how awful the sub truck and glitchy the land ice sections were.
psychicgnu
The shadow leviathan wasn't as scary as it could be.