i only just re-read this post: sharks in a shadowy swimming pool?

interesting... *strokes imaginary cat*

you are not, the same happens to me. I could go snorkeling a bit on our last trip to the red sea but it took some guts and my husband holding my hand (which totally nullifies my guts comment).
Might it be some sort of agoraphobia? not sure

Off topic but tetanus needs a shot...The recommendation is to wash your wound to minimize contamination though...

As a young kid on holiday in Greece I jumped off a pedalo several hundred metres off shore. My parents stared at me in horror as I stood up next to them and smiled. I was standing on a huge manta ray which was swimming in the shadow of the boat. I shot out like an Exocet missile once I looked down to see where I was.

Pedalos still make me twitchy.

You stood on a Manta Ray. Damn! Wicked!

I am so jealous. Of course, I would have the twitches for a while after that as well.

Holy shit UM

I remember playing a game in the USA with my brother it was in the evening and we were the only ones in the hotel pool we pretended there was a shark in the pool and had to swim as fast as we could to get out of the pool, scared the crap out of me

You and everyone posting here (me included) are a generation of victims of



Class action lawsuit, anyone?

I have the exact same phobia, seriously. Its ever since I watched Jaws <insert the other various sea/lake monster movies I watched here> and developed as I grew into adulthood... same as my fear of heights. Im a strong swimmer since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, almost fish-like, yet I can't seem to shake it.

well if you think you are a coward than what does it make me if I can't even swim huh?...that really blows....

my friend, there are other things on land to worry about...

At least the Zurisee is safe... there is a shitload of old ammunition on the bottom but don't worry, it's completely safe. Or so I'm told.

About 9 or 10 years ago, I was out on a boat with dive students when the shop radioed that a whale carcass had been spotted drifting to shore... with tiger sharks tagging along.

We pulled in the divers and students and got over there as quickly as we could. I went down on the stern ladder and spent 15 minutes watching 4 large, magnificent marine carnivores (the longest was ca. 14ft.) taking huge bites of overripe whale meat... leaving holes in the carcass that looked like bites out of a cookie.

When the largest came over to check out our boat, the captain said he'd never seen anyone board the boat as quickly as I had...

Point of the story is, yeah, there are things out there that *could* bite you... but they can usually find something much tastier!

And it took me a week to get the dead-whale-oil-smell out of my favorite wetsuit...

by the way, Peter Benchley (director) seems to have an obsession with sharks, he had another film called "Creature" where he gave the shark legs! absolutely no one is safe, on land or in the water!

...not forgetting the occasional pile of body parts to pick one's way through.


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Yes. With frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads.

I had the opportunity to dive with a Basking Shark once, near the Eddystone. That was quite spectacular, given the size of it (not my photo below, sadly).

They're vegetarians so they don't bite, but they can give a rather nasty suck

I came to the assistance of a trawler in the Irish Sea once where a basking shark was entangled in their nets. The crew couldn't get the thing out, yet didn't want to cut their thousands of Pounds worth of lines. I was in a J120 yacht and the beast was as large as our tub. After an hour of dodging a thrashing tail in a RIB, we had to cut the line and the poor thing sank and no doubt died a slow death. The trawlermen weren't too pleased either. It all felt very sad to see the creature disappear covered in thick netting and cable.

I actually think most of the sharks are inoffensive to men.

I love that movie! Nice big worm :P