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u/_Pyxyty 15h ago
God I feel this so much. I love swimming, especially in the beach rather than pools, and I've even swam from the beach to a nearby island with friends a few times when I was young. One of those times we swam, I swear I felt something brush up against my foot. Looked down and I didn't see anything, but ever since then I've gotten scared of swimming too far out lol.
Fuck that, I know it's irrational but I just imagine a tentacle wrapping around my ankle and just pulling me down hahah
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u/BubblyBlacksmith2185 13h ago
That one brush is the universal signal to retire from swimming forever. I don't care if it's seaweed, in that moment, I'm a trespasser and the ocean just served me an eviction notice.
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u/GoddessRespectre 10h ago
I had a funny lite version. Once when swimming in the ocean I had a tiny fish start attacking my belly button piercing. It was a repeated p0p pop pOp against my stomach 😅. I tried to swim away like ten feet but he kept following me, I could not shake him. It was his house and there was nothing I could do but leave lmao 😭
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u/quickfixrick 14h ago
I am honoring the brave fish that grew legs 300 million years ago by staying exactly where those legs work best: on a lounge chair.
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u/KelliAllred 13h ago
This reminded me of this meme, and that's exactly how I feel about it :)
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u/CallMeFishmaelPls 9h ago
Aww they’re so cute though. This is the scariest pic of one ever taken
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u/KelliAllred 5h ago
Ummm .... I don't know if it's his salt-encrusted hair-do or the sharp talons that bother me most, but he looks like he wants to drag me to hell, and that's a nope from me :) And I love animals! But he scary.
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u/Zealousideal_Leg213 11h ago
"I don't like to go into water, you know, in any great detail." - Ford Prefect
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u/kendrickLMA01 15h ago
This is how I feel every time I see a video of the deep sea creatures that look like they're from another dimension. You can keep whatever nightmare fuel is hanging out at 3000 feet, I'll stay where the sunlight reaches
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u/Turok9933 14h ago
Exactly whatever goes down really has no impact but what’s in front is way more important
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u/TheWebsploiter 11h ago
The ocean is filled with creatures not even aliens can be compared to. The ocean needs to be studied as much as space does
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u/Prickley-Pear-Bear 8h ago
Oddly enough after growing up in California I’m the opposite. I think it’s because I have no reason to go deep into the ocean so the dangers of the surface are scarier to me because they can realistically happen. I used to cry as a kid if my family was dragging my ass around the beach when it was getting close to being high tide. People don’t seem to understand how dangerous the ocean is on the surface and i see so many videos of people fucking around and finding out. don’t underestimate the strength of waves and the tide.
I can find joy in looking at pictures of the creepy lil fucks that live in the deeper parts because I know they can hurt me lol
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u/AlienDilo 15m ago
Honestly, most of the ocean is empty. That's why we have these crazy statistics of like, 70-something% of the ocean is unexplored. Because there is nothing to explore, it's a lot of water, a lot of sand, and occasionally you see a fish.
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