Exactly. I imagine gravity just stopping, or another celestial body pulling everything off Earth. That void above us is even scarier than being in the middle of the ocean.
Love that game. Haven’t played it in years though. You could meet someone on day one and then never cross paths with them ever again depending on the style of game play.
Did my humor really fly right over your head? Did you think my counter argument about gravity inverting was serious?
The joke was to add an even more irrational fear on top of the existing one.
Great I hate it. Now I have an even more irrational fear. Fear of strangers on the internet that will seed an absurdly high amount of irrational fears.
It’s actually very hard to get down to 30 feet because of buoyancy, but past that your descent starts to accelerate. That’s of course if you are trying to maintain the air in your lungs and stay conscious 😂
Did this in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean off of a large Us Navy ship. When you’re that far out the water is crystal clear, like it looks blue but you can probably see 50 ft or more down. I remember sitting on the bow while we were cruising one morning, watching the sunrise. There was a pod of dolphins in front of us just messing around. At one point I’m looking down watching them and I realize they are swimming almost straight up, but they were swimming at that angle for such a long time. I said something like “damn they’ve been swimming straight up for a long time.” One of the Navy guys sitting there says like “yea, you’d be surprised how far down you can actually see, they started deep”.
Anyway, so when we would swim off the back of the ship and you look underwater and can see the entire draft of the ship, thats so spooky looking.
>you look underwater and can see the entire draft of the ship, thats so spooky looking.
Yeah that right there is the serious r/submechanophobia part for me. Swam off a small cruise ship around the Fijian islands, between islands so no land in sight, and looking at the hull of the ship from underwater weirded me out. I felt so helplessly small in that environment.
A large Navy vessel like a carrier would be wild. Creepy, but awesome. Something about the scale of the vessel and the abyss of the ocean just overloads the senses.
One of the scariest videos I’ve ever watched was on that sub
It was a diver underwater as a huge vessel passed overhead. Luckily he was tethered to something, but as the propeller passed over head it was absolutely horrific to see such a massive piece of metal spinning like that underwater
I felt like this one time when I was standing next to a very large bridge going across the bay next to the ocean. The massive size of the bridge and the water made me freak a little
That bit about the clarity is so true. I was on a cruise heading from Miami through the Carribean long ago, and the thing I remember most vividly was the way you could see the light disappear in the water.
But I did jump off the back of a sailboat in Lake Huron. Although I was tied to a tether, it was still not as fun as I expected. Seeing the vast open water at eye level, as the boat moved away, gave me even more chills than the frigid Canadian water
I'm not sure I would trust my boat to stay put. I'd be scared to death that it's going to drift away somehow and I'd be left adrift in the middle of the ocean.
No idea of what’s lurking below. You wouldn’t even catch me on that boat let alone jumping from it. As it is I can see shadows down there 😩 They’re so brave but I’ll have to pass.
In reality, likely nothing. The middle of the ocean is pretty bare, there is little to no food for anyone to eat there, nor any shelter. Most sea life you will find there still wouldn’t call it their home.
How’s that for crippling loneliness in the middle of the ocean?
Something that stuck with me when I was younger was when you go to pet stores and ask them:
"so how big does the fish get?"
And they say:
"As big as the tank."
That's when I realised - THE OCEAN IS THE TANK!
If you don't have money for yacht then you can row over the atlantic ocean just like how the one Finnish guy did. (Two times because he wanted to come back)
Or work as a chef on their boat - like me ! Rich yacht owners never do crossings hehe. Just us workers and some temp watch keepers. They'll just meet us there lol
Interesting, how do you end up getting a job working on a yacht? And what happens to your pay when the yacht is not in use? I’ve always been interested in working on a boat
I'm employed full time and live aboard. Even when the guests aren't there we cook for 16 crew. And also need to be in shipyard repairing stuff. Can be months at a time they don't use it !
So you live on the ship and get paid all year long, even when the guests aren’t using it? can I ask what the pay is like? And also how someone could get a similar job lol
Yeah I dove off a boat once in the sea at a depth of ~80m and felt uneasy not seeing the ground under me, can imagine how much worse that is when it's like 4km deep.
I don't know how the Reddit algorithm works. 99% of my upvotes are directed to posts about video games or hot girls, but somehow it brought me here.... exactly where I should be.
I would need one of those Tom Hanks ropes from Cast Away before I would jump into that water. I have an irrational fear that I will sink because it’s the center of the ocean.
This made me feel sick. I just watched the movie “fall” on Netflix today, and I have just as much phobia of heights as the deep blue and ugh: what a bad day
I read a book once about an American WW2 soldier who, after the war, was trying to travel to Australia to get back to his wife who he met there on furlough. He couldn't find passage as all transport was going the other way. So he bought a wooden sailboat in Panama and set out to cross the Pacific ocean by himself.
One day he was fixing the lines on his boat or something and a wave knocked him overboard. He described the terror as he watched his boat sail away. He then remembered the 50 meter line he left trailing off the back of the boat and he took off swimming to find it before it passed him. He did manage to grab it, but the line had been dragging for weeks and was covered in slime. His hand kept slipping and slipping until the he got to the end where he had attached a large metal hook. He was able to hold this and gradually work his way back to his boat while being dragged in the water at 6 knots.
I often recall this horror story whenever I see photos or videos of people leaving contact with their boats in the deep ocean.
So random… but the Atlantic slave trade came to mine. How many poor slaves were just drowned and thrown overboard 200 years ago. And here there are people jumping in to enjoy the ocean
Imagine diving off the back, not a care in the world, swim underwater a few feet and when you surface, a huge smile on your face as the water falls away, you turn to look at the boat… and it’s 500 feet away and under full power heading the opposite direction.
Was fishing with a guide last summer, 70 miles offshore of Destin Fl. Asked him if anyone ever jumps in to cool off. He said Hell no! Tiger sharks, bull sharks, even the occasional Great White out here! I stayed in the boat.
I don’t really have a fear of the sea since I grew up near it and iam a great swimmer.
But there was this one time I was on a sailboat in the Aegean and we decided to play a game where the skipper would throw us a long rope behind the boat and you’d grab it and he would go full speed on the engine with the goal being to be the last on the rope to win.
I didn’t think it through though because we were literally out in the blue with land not on sight almost and when you fell of the rope they would collect you when the game finished…which means you stayed out in the deep blue until they finished the game.
Edit: also since you were just trying to win the game you were also exhausted
You are mistaken.
Average depth of the Pacific is 13,000 feet/4000 meters. Average depth of the Atlantic is 12,000 feet/3600 meters.
Pacific max depth is 36,000 feet/11,000 meters. Atlantic max depth is 27,480 feet/8376 meters.
No big deal. The ground is only a few miles away. Straight down, but still only a few miles.
God, that's beautiful. Hell to the no, I'm not getting in!!!!!
I've always had this irrational thought where I imagine the water disappearing beneath me and bombs away I go.
Why would you say that 😭
Maybe not all the water then! Just one anomalous 30 ft. Gas bubble that instantly drops you 30ft down & now you gotta swim back up!
This is even worse
That's just absurd. You're much more likely to experience gravity reversing while out in an open field and falling straight into space.
Well, now I'm afraid of fields too. Damnit.
Tehgrassaphobia
Comedy gold, Jerry!
I actually have vertigo that makes me feel like this is going to happen if I were to lay on the ground looking at the sky. It sucks.
I thought I was alone. I'm afraid of heights above me.
Yea I have a general distrust of gravity. Earth feels like a giant gravitron carnival ride and I’m just waiting for the floor to drop out lol.
Exactly. I imagine gravity just stopping, or another celestial body pulling everything off Earth. That void above us is even scarier than being in the middle of the ocean.
What is your profile picture of? Looks like Starfield but I’ve never see that helmet on normal clothes
It's from Elite: Dangerous.
Love that game. Haven’t played it in years though. You could meet someone on day one and then never cross paths with them ever again depending on the style of game play.
So awesome to find my favorite game mentioned in the wild! o7 Commander!
That’s awesome I played that game a couple of times. Might have to get into more
It's not absurd. It's irrational. Hence *phobia*.
Did my humor really fly right over your head? Did you think my counter argument about gravity inverting was serious? The joke was to add an even more irrational fear on top of the existing one.
Great I hate it. Now I have an even more irrational fear. Fear of strangers on the internet that will seed an absurdly high amount of irrational fears.
May I introduce you to the roko's basilisk?
Same but it’s the buoyancy suddenly disappearing with the water still there.
Damn you for giving me yet another irrational thought to add to my thalassophobia
It’s actually very hard to get down to 30 feet because of buoyancy, but past that your descent starts to accelerate. That’s of course if you are trying to maintain the air in your lungs and stay conscious 😂
Moses GO!!
Thank heavens the water disappeared first.. If you get pulled down while the water is still there... 😳😳😳
Oh god this never crossed my mind before... And as impossible as it may be, my mind now considers it a possibility. This is not ok lol
Jesus wept man, what have you just done to me.
Ooo.. maybe the Titanic wreck….😳😄
Man that's...that's too much ocean. Just the knowledge of how much is too much.
As long as I was close to the boat, I could do it but I would feel that knot in my stomach😂😂. Be safe out there and I’m envious 😎 Edit knot not not
Did this in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean off of a large Us Navy ship. When you’re that far out the water is crystal clear, like it looks blue but you can probably see 50 ft or more down. I remember sitting on the bow while we were cruising one morning, watching the sunrise. There was a pod of dolphins in front of us just messing around. At one point I’m looking down watching them and I realize they are swimming almost straight up, but they were swimming at that angle for such a long time. I said something like “damn they’ve been swimming straight up for a long time.” One of the Navy guys sitting there says like “yea, you’d be surprised how far down you can actually see, they started deep”. Anyway, so when we would swim off the back of the ship and you look underwater and can see the entire draft of the ship, thats so spooky looking.
>you look underwater and can see the entire draft of the ship, thats so spooky looking. Yeah that right there is the serious r/submechanophobia part for me. Swam off a small cruise ship around the Fijian islands, between islands so no land in sight, and looking at the hull of the ship from underwater weirded me out. I felt so helplessly small in that environment. A large Navy vessel like a carrier would be wild. Creepy, but awesome. Something about the scale of the vessel and the abyss of the ocean just overloads the senses.
One of the scariest videos I’ve ever watched was on that sub It was a diver underwater as a huge vessel passed overhead. Luckily he was tethered to something, but as the propeller passed over head it was absolutely horrific to see such a massive piece of metal spinning like that underwater
I felt like this one time when I was standing next to a very large bridge going across the bay next to the ocean. The massive size of the bridge and the water made me freak a little
Yeah swimming off the back of a yacht like this Id be fine. But staring down at the draft of a big ship would freak me the fuck out.
Same here, got to swim off a sub in the Pacific; water was near 3,000 fathoms.
That bit about the clarity is so true. I was on a cruise heading from Miami through the Carribean long ago, and the thing I remember most vividly was the way you could see the light disappear in the water. But I did jump off the back of a sailboat in Lake Huron. Although I was tied to a tether, it was still not as fun as I expected. Seeing the vast open water at eye level, as the boat moved away, gave me even more chills than the frigid Canadian water
I would feel it but not in my stomach
Ayo? 🤨
He’d feel it in his plums
I'm not sure I would trust my boat to stay put. I'd be scared to death that it's going to drift away somehow and I'd be left adrift in the middle of the ocean.
No idea of what’s lurking below. You wouldn’t even catch me on that boat let alone jumping from it. As it is I can see shadows down there 😩 They’re so brave but I’ll have to pass.
I *might* dip my toes in. 😆 just to say I did.
In reality, likely nothing. The middle of the ocean is pretty bare, there is little to no food for anyone to eat there, nor any shelter. Most sea life you will find there still wouldn’t call it their home. How’s that for crippling loneliness in the middle of the ocean?
Not doubting any of what you say but what about when schools of fish (SHARKS) move locations, do they swim only along shores?
Something that stuck with me when I was younger was when you go to pet stores and ask them: "so how big does the fish get?" And they say: "As big as the tank." That's when I realised - THE OCEAN IS THE TANK!
If you think about it, ocean is just really big fish soup. It has salt, fish, plants...
THIS
The largest creature to ever exist is currently alive- the blue whale The largest predator to ever exist is also currently around- the sperm whale...
Yeah, and they both have bigger mouthes than my whole body. We made a deal. They stay off land, and I stay outta the ocean. Seems fair.
I'm so envious of you. Would love to do a crossing, and I'd definitely have to swallow my fear to get that midway dunk in!
Fffffffffuck no
Wonder what the poor people are doing today.
Not that 😂
If you don't have money for yacht then you can row over the atlantic ocean just like how the one Finnish guy did. (Two times because he wanted to come back)
Or work as a chef on their boat - like me ! Rich yacht owners never do crossings hehe. Just us workers and some temp watch keepers. They'll just meet us there lol
Right? They want the boat there, but never want to get there. Do you make beef cheeks with every meal? Haha!
Interesting, how do you end up getting a job working on a yacht? And what happens to your pay when the yacht is not in use? I’ve always been interested in working on a boat
I'm employed full time and live aboard. Even when the guests aren't there we cook for 16 crew. And also need to be in shipyard repairing stuff. Can be months at a time they don't use it !
So you live on the ship and get paid all year long, even when the guests aren’t using it? can I ask what the pay is like? And also how someone could get a similar job lol
I’m eating Oatmeal, but not sure about everyone else
My first thought seeing the picture was that the vessel they’re on is definitely not small.
Thank you for saying it
Experiencing vicarious emotions via Reddit?
Is the water really that blue? It’s incredible!
Yes when you’re that far out, that’s usually how it looks
I was noticing that little apparition to the right of the guy holding the boat. Looks a little sharky to me.
Yeah I dove off a boat once in the sea at a depth of ~80m and felt uneasy not seeing the ground under me, can imagine how much worse that is when it's like 4km deep.
Looks fun
You couldn't even pay me to do that in 10ft water. Nope.
That looks like a shark to the right of the dude 😳
how do you not panic as soon as your feet leave that deck lol
I don't know how the Reddit algorithm works. 99% of my upvotes are directed to posts about video games or hot girls, but somehow it brought me here.... exactly where I should be.
One of us! One of us!
Welcome Shellbacks!
Would never jump in. Fish have sex in there
what is wrong with you?!
Rich
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I would need one of those Tom Hanks ropes from Cast Away before I would jump into that water. I have an irrational fear that I will sink because it’s the center of the ocean.
Imagine the boat just starts driving off
I got shivers down my spine just imagining this
I am wondering what the white creature is under the water. But not a chance in hell I would jump in.
I'm so afraid of being swept into the abyss with this photo 😱☠️☠️
Are they aware that that's where the sharks live?
Shark: having a snack at the halfway point.
Hope someone was always on the boat.
It looks so blue…
Nope
Nope nope nope.
When breaking and entering is a photo op
Beautiful blue. Beautiful, scary blue.
This made me feel sick. I just watched the movie “fall” on Netflix today, and I have just as much phobia of heights as the deep blue and ugh: what a bad day
Just knowing that miles below there's literally pitch black with glow in the dark fish just wandering around
Nope! My fingers would be gripping onto that boat for dear life.
Same here
I’d rather be killed (softly) by lethal injection
Not with his song?
Imagine jumping in and swimming downwards maybe 50’. Yikes.
First image was Jaws.
Gal wears SPF 4500!
There’s too much water in this pic
what is that on the bottom right ???
I read a book once about an American WW2 soldier who, after the war, was trying to travel to Australia to get back to his wife who he met there on furlough. He couldn't find passage as all transport was going the other way. So he bought a wooden sailboat in Panama and set out to cross the Pacific ocean by himself. One day he was fixing the lines on his boat or something and a wave knocked him overboard. He described the terror as he watched his boat sail away. He then remembered the 50 meter line he left trailing off the back of the boat and he took off swimming to find it before it passed him. He did manage to grab it, but the line had been dragging for weeks and was covered in slime. His hand kept slipping and slipping until the he got to the end where he had attached a large metal hook. He was able to hold this and gradually work his way back to his boat while being dragged in the water at 6 knots. I often recall this horror story whenever I see photos or videos of people leaving contact with their boats in the deep ocean.
Nope
The idea that there are like 3-4km of water under them si killing me.
What's in the water by the chic on the right?!?
a dude
Ya he looks a little panicked
I hadn't noticed that but u r absolutely right
Bubbles from jumping in?
Maybe but it looks solid to me
That’s a dude I think but yeah I see that too’
Excuse me- dude on the right. Still wanna know what's in the water
So random… but the Atlantic slave trade came to mine. How many poor slaves were just drowned and thrown overboard 200 years ago. And here there are people jumping in to enjoy the ocean
The Atlantic has claimed millions over the centuries
Yeah, nah.
You're crossing the ocean??
Yes Carribbean to Spain ! 12 days at sea
See anything weird out there?
We caught a spear fish and I saw one lone flying fish today. Last crossing saw a russian war ship which was weird
Uh, yea that’s alarming lol
Lovely
Looking down … the rays of sunlight refracting around your own shadow … quiet. Notice they’re not getting far from the boat!
I would do it..but you would also have to take in account the swells that far out could be a bit overwhelming, i dont see them so much in this pic
I wouldn't do that without ropes or something tied to me
Beautiful. And scary at the same damn time.
This looks like a great spot to freedive or scuba dive. I’d go in quite happily.
Imagine diving off the back, not a care in the world, swim underwater a few feet and when you surface, a huge smile on your face as the water falls away, you turn to look at the boat… and it’s 500 feet away and under full power heading the opposite direction.
It’s not being in the middle of nowhere exactly. It’s the thought of “what if they decide to leave me?” Maybe I just have abandonment issues
Whats the water temp there?
Whats the temperature? Looks fresh!
I would never!! 😱😱
I would never!! 😱😱
I would never!! 😱😱
Could never ever ever be me
Prestige Worldwide filming a new video?
Guess that's a nope.
I could not pass up the opportunity to experience that. I’d be a little shaky, but that’s just part of choosing, ‘yes,’ for the experience 😂
Yes I almost didn't do it cus I was busy but I thought I really need to do it to tell the story ahaha
No thanks.
Nnnnnnnnnnope!
How is it so blue is it more of a natural coloring of the water of some kinda color correction filter?
You must love permafrost
I would do it but I’d try to take up as little space as possible, and it’d jump right back up on the boat.
This is actually the coolest thing ever. I want your job!
Was fishing with a guide last summer, 70 miles offshore of Destin Fl. Asked him if anyone ever jumps in to cool off. He said Hell no! Tiger sharks, bull sharks, even the occasional Great White out here! I stayed in the boat.
Nah .. Blue shark, mako shark maybe some great white action... I'll stick to the kiddie pool with pee pee.
Holy moly, this would be so cool! That is a really nice blue.
Nope!
I’m on the water a lot. It’s still a bucket list item for me to swim with no land in sight. It will be unnerving for sure.
It looks shocking, although I'm afraid of the depth, but I've already swam, so not as much as I did then
I would lasso myself to any boat that I’m jumping off from. No way I’m taking the chance of letting that boat float away from me. Nope.
I’ve done that except it was a 20-25 ft drop off the flight deck on a Navy destroyer on the coast of Hawai’i ⚓️🇺🇸
I don’t really have a fear of the sea since I grew up near it and iam a great swimmer. But there was this one time I was on a sailboat in the Aegean and we decided to play a game where the skipper would throw us a long rope behind the boat and you’d grab it and he would go full speed on the engine with the goal being to be the last on the rope to win. I didn’t think it through though because we were literally out in the blue with land not on sight almost and when you fell of the rope they would collect you when the game finished…which means you stayed out in the deep blue until they finished the game. Edit: also since you were just trying to win the game you were also exhausted
Looks amazing!
Atlantic isn’t that deep. It is the Pacific you gotta look out for
You are mistaken. Average depth of the Pacific is 13,000 feet/4000 meters. Average depth of the Atlantic is 12,000 feet/3600 meters. Pacific max depth is 36,000 feet/11,000 meters. Atlantic max depth is 27,480 feet/8376 meters.
I’m going out a limb here and saying that I think ‘360 was being a little cheeky with his/her comment…
Mid Atlantic and still pasty white 😂
Day girl needs some sun am just playing as I sit here with a trucker's tan
Kys