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Divers Reveal 50 Disturbing Discoveries Underwater They Will Probably Never Be Able To Explain
Despite its size and impact on life on Earth, the ocean remains one of our biggest mysteries. In fact, more than 80 percent of it has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans.
Drawn by this mystique, Reddit user ThatPizzaGuy5150 made a post on the platform, asking: "Divers and water lovers, what is something you've found while underwater that you can't explain or scared the hell out of you?" Turns out, many more people wanted to hear the answers—the post has received over 3,400 upvotes.
And all of these folks got what they desired. From curious sharks to missing persons, continue scrolling to learn what you can discover when you descend into the unknown.
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#1
I was diving off the Florence, OR coast with some friends and we found a body on the ocean floor in the creepiest condition possible. He was a surfer who'd gone missing a few days prior so he wore a wet suit with his legs, arms, and head exposed. Crabs had eaten the flesh from his exposed bits so basically he was a torso with a skull and skeletal limbs.
The creepiest dive of my life though, two buddies of mine and I were on a night dive in the Pugeut Sound hunting prawns. It was about 1am and we're a good 100ft deep, the pitchest black you could imagine. We used to do this thing on night dives where we'd get in a circle, turn off our lights, then stir up the water and watch the bio-luminescence float around us like floating stars in a black watery space. Beautiful. Only this one time we turn off our lights, stir up the water, and the water glows just enough to reveal a fourth person sitting in our circle.
We were at a dive resort so it wasn't so odd to see another diver, only it was 1am--we'd seen no one else prepping a dive at the dock. He was also alone which was odd considering the dangerous conditions of a night dive in those waters, and he had no fins or gloves. I don't know how he swam so well without fins or didn't get hypothermia without boots or gloves. We wore drysuits because it was so cold but this dude was in a wet suit with exposed skin and we thought we saw a giant gash in one of the legs.
So the three of us all notice him and we're too f*****g scared to move, I can hear my buddies panting in their regs, and the guy just smiles and waves, then swims away.
That was 100 times creepier than skeleton dude. Whenever you think you're alone and someone just shows up, like in an alley at night, it's weird as f**k. 100ft under water at night is terrifying.
Camilore 3 years ago
That’s some serious disturbing encounter. Good that you are ok! The sea is more of a Twilight Zone than we think
SuperChicken 3 years ago (edited)
It sure is. Thing is, too - one cannot swim fast enough to get away either.
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Lisa 3 years ago (edited)
I mean, did they turn their lights back on to get a better look? He/she said the water glowed just enough to reveal a 4th person. That's a lot of details to remember, idk the memory can't be trusted. But it is a cool story, I reckon it could have been someone who observed them without notice while they were getting ready for their dive.
Persephone 3 years ago
Maybe it was skeleton dude thanking you for giving his family closure...
Isaac7lego🇺🇸 3 years ago
S**t I was just in Florence surfing, I'm glad I didn't know that before😳
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#2
I don't know if this counts but I'm a water lover, so maybe so.
While water skiing in the lake one time (Louisiana) when I flew off I landed like pretty much on top of an alligator. I kinda felt my leg hit him and we were like eye to eye when I gasped for air. Then he went under. The moments after that were the most terrifying moments of my life because I was so certain Id feel him bite my foot any second and drag me under. I started screaming and couldn't stop until the boat was back to me.
You don't realize how long 2-3 minutes is until you're alone in the open water.
Never again for me.
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
I wasn’t even there, but I’m never going again! Ha
Load More Replies... Lisa 3 years ago
It seems like the alligators in Texas/Louisana are chill compared to Alabama/Florida alligators. We hadn't had a death from an alligator in Texas until a few years ago where some intoxicated man jumped in water with them. I believe it was a bar, maybe restaurant too, where people reguarly threw food to the gators. Also he jumped in water shouting insults at the gators at night, when they are most active. The alligators did not appreciates that, before him the last person killed was in 1836.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
It's amazing when you live in Florida by the water you can hear the alligators making their courting noises and realize how many of them there are out there. There used to be a lake in Florida I would go to and it had these massive concrete outflow tubes that I would sit on the top of and you could hear the gators inside it would magnify the sound and bring it to you very scary.
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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
I would be terrified too. I once saw a video on YouTube of a herd of zebras crossing a crocodile infested river. One of the zebras got caught on his face. The croc literally ripped the flesh off the poor zebra's face. The poor thing was still alive after having her nose and skin ripped off. One of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen.
Ciara Jane Eynon 3 years ago
Jesus christ Jessica, that story you just told is more traumatic than the original one lol
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Bonnie Buttons 3 years ago
That. Is. Terrifying. Thankfully you got out unscathed. Wow. And luckily your fall probably stunned him, and he thought you were too threatening to bother. Yikes. You have nine lives and used up at least eight on that encounter. (I have a phobia of deep, dark water and underwater creatures. Hence why I am so impressed by this story. And why I will have nightmares tonight.)
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted 7 years ago on Reddit. You're not replying to them.
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phil blanque 3 years ago
Most large predators evaluate possible prey...weighing the value against the risk of their own injury or death. But not alligators or crocodiles. They are not greedy and will gladly just take an arm or a leg...and then come back later for the rest.
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Billy and his family went on a holiday, they went down to florida to laugh and dance and play. Billy went in for a swim he didn't see the harm, but when he came out again he was short an arm. Cause Rippy the gator went chomp, chomp, chomp, Rippy the gator went chomp, chomp, chomp! Passing the time by ending children’s lives… down in the bottom of the swamp, swamp, swamp.
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Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
Gators scare me more than any other water apex predator because you always hear how with sharks you can punch or strike them in the nose, eyes, and gills but a gator? They're freaking armored all over.
Julie 3 years ago
LOL I did it all the time as a kid but now I won't ever. Parents really were much more rough and tumble about our upbringing.
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Crissie Laugesen 3 years ago
All the more reason not to water ski where wildlife live. He could really have hurt that poor alligator.
PunnyPanda 3 years ago
Less terrifying, but landed on a giant jellyfish in the Andaman falling a wakeboard. Like, 4'+ across. Bruised my tail bone. My friend's in the boat had seen them (massive bloom that year), and left me floating amidst them for a solid 10 min while I freaked out they laughed. Jerks.
#3
Surfing off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Sitting there waiting for waves when this big dark shape slithered underneath me and my board. I quickly went to a kneeling position on my board with an audible 'holy s**t balls.'
moments later the friendliest face poked up out of the water in front of me. A big curious Seal. Curse you Seal....you scared the p**s out of me that day.
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago
Once went to a beach. A huge crowd around something. Turns out to be a baby seal and a sea turtle basking. They were put back into the ocean later
Cheryl Giese 3 years ago
That happened to me kayaking off the coast of La Jolla. You sense someone/something watching you...so I look to my right and see the sweetest seal just watching and followed me for a bit.
#4
I was diving of the coast of manly island, near sydney, on my gap year. We were told to stay away from caves and whatnot because common sense, what with sea snakes and such. Me and 3 friends jump in and swim for a bit. We're were at the edge of a reef and just checking out some coral and junk. Me and another guy swim to the very edge of the reef to check out the deeper bits (not going down too far of course), and swim past a small crevice. It was so small we didnt even notice it. I turn my back to it for a bit to check where the other guys are and my buddy starts shaking the begeezus out of me and is franticly pointing towards the crevice. I turn (already expecting a demon or some monster) and squeezing out the crevice comes this f*****g enourmous blob of maroon flesh and suckers. At this point i wet my pants (no lie). So basically it was a octupus with the arm span of a paddling pool and it lunges and the other guy, squirting him with ink and dissapearing. I thought it was gone cause i couldnt see s**t. I saw his arm flailing out of the blackness and i thought he was swimming to safety and i was ready to get the f**k out of the ocean forever. From a distance i saw that the octopus had him by the right leg and was groping him in a mass of inky horror. I had no idea whether or not to help him, i had never been more scared because i knew octopus can kill people. I was so scared i could barely breathe. I tried to go help him and when i got close to him the octopus scarpered further down into the reef. I had never seen a man look so frightened in his life. He swam so fast up to the boat with me in pursuit and the guy didnt need a ladder to get up to the boat, he just breached the surface and hoisted himself by his arms on the edge of the boat. I called the driver over and he ran over. My buddy had a chunk of flesh the size of a tennis ball out of his calf. He still has marks from the suckers (those mofos are strong). To this day he has never even been to the beach, and he's even scared of baths.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
The ink indicates that the octopus was also panicking and felt that it was under attack. You don't want to be trapped with an animal which is mostly muscle, has a sharp beak, is panicking, and thinks that you are the threat...
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
& most likely smarter than you. lol. Octopus are smarter than most humans. I know that's not a fact. But I feel like it's true based on the people I've met in life.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Great. Now I'm going to have nightmares about a giant octopus swimming off with me in it's grasp like a damn doll.
Mindy Megas-Loucks 3 years ago
I am absolutely *TERRIFIED* of cephalopods, which is why I refuse to go into water where I can't see the bottom. In this situation, I'm sure I'd have simultaneously had a massive heart attack and stroked out.
Nicki 3 years ago
SAME!! The only time I have been in waist deep water it was in Hawaii and I could see all the way down. I love the ocean as a concept, but I will never ever go into open water more than knee deep. NOPE!
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Angela B 3 years ago
Manly Island? Been to Manly Beach and been to Manly. Could someone kindly tell me where Manly Island is please?
Marcus Fegent 3 years ago
Not much coral or sea snakes in Sydney either. I call BS on this story.
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Norman Woelk 3 years ago
The only deaths from octopuses are from the Blue Ringed Octopus due to their venom. They are very tiny.
Peter Buckley 3 years ago
Manly Island, sea snakes, caves, giant octopus? I call b******t on this, Sydney sider.
#5
I was diving in bermuda, 85 feet down, coming out of the wheelhouse of an old fishing boat. I felt something start tapping my hand, turn my head with thoughts of all kinds of horrible terrifying sea creatures reaching out to grab my hand and see a tiny little fish flinging itself into my hand and waving it's fins at me as if to say "get out of my house! go on scram!" That was when I discovered you could laugh through a regulator
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 7 years ago. Who are you talking to?
Load More Replies... Tabitha Martel 3 years ago
The story he must have had for his buddies though..."guys he was THIS BIG and I chased him off!"
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
When I was a kid in Florida I was up to my waist in the ocean and I looked down and see this baby puffer fish with beautiful eyes just swimming in circles around me it kept doing this for a while and I reached down and cupped it in my hand and brought it home to my dad's humongous fish tank where it lived very happily and got very much bigger feeding off brine shrimp and being safe and happy till he died of old age. This was more than 20 years ago I would never displace a wild creature now.
#6
Rescue diver in the Bahamas... [I was] diving in a submerged blue hole (the entrance is below sea level) and a diver went missing.
After an hour or two of searching, went back into the blue hole to see if there were any signs of him. Saw the glint of his watch and his arm sticking out near the bottom.
Start descending down to the bottom to recover the body. On the way down realized that the "bottom" was a school of sharks that must have been there for breeding. So many sharks that they blocked the view of the actual bottom.
Descended into the darkness, grabbed his arm (couldn't stand to look at the body) and started ascending. The sharks followed. And were circling the both of us. Had to take a break halfway at around 65 feet as to not get the bends. Scared sh*tless. The entire time waiting to normalize scared sh*tless. He was struck by a passing boat.
Ladytron 3 years ago
I would assume that, yes, as he wrote "to recover the body".
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Norman Woelk 3 years ago
A friend went on the shark dive in Palau. The dive master told him 'keep the sharks on your left and the reef on your right. The current was so fast they flew past a group of sharks feed on smaller fish. He said he didn't have time to get scared until he got out of the water.
#7
Years ago I was having a fun day snorkeling in the lagoon in Diego Garcia. On the way back across the lagoon a pod of dolphins came up and were jumping around the boat. Shut off the motor real quick and jumped in. I'm pretty good - usually dive down 15-20'. It was amazing... Dolphins all over the place. I went down about three times. Next time I went down.. Nothing. I looked around... And then there they were. Hammerheads. Hundreds of them. All around me. Blood went cold. Panic sets in. Some small... Some as big as me (over 6') some were just monsters... I didn't panic - slowly drifted back up to the surface. When my head broke the water I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by death incarnate - and couldn't see a single one. I've never felt fear like I did in calmly trying to climb back into the boat... It was amazing. It was incredible. It was utterly horrifying....
Cory Tollman 3 years ago
Thanks. I was in the USN and I've known people stationed there and I could have sworn they all bitched about the place being surrounded by sharks so the only things to do there were work out and drink.
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Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
My hearts racing reading this. This is why I don't f**k with the ocean. I admire it from ashore. I'll dip my feet in. But that's if. I respect it too much. Because the second you get into that water you are no longer in control. She's a scary, moody b***h.
#8
I was diving a spear fishing spot about 30 miles off shore. I was 60 feet under water. There I was swimming along when I noticed them a school of Mahi Mahi. There were about 30 maybe 40 of them. These fish where all between 2 and 5 feet long. They were so beautiful with their sides flashing all different colors. That's when I felt the tug on my leg. I looked down at my legs to see a 12 tiger shark pulling on my dive fin and taking me along for the ride. In a second he had ripped the fin off my foot. The shark then swam away but kept circling just at visual range. I think he was still curious about how I tasted. I kept an eye on him the whole time I was swimming back to the boat. Scariest moment I have ever had in the water.
Anikulapo 3 years ago
Fvck the encompassing entirety of the whole thing actually.
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Ozzie Ogawa 3 years ago
Tiger shark & bull shark might be smaller than the great white shark but they are more dangerous since they are known to intentionally attack and eat human, while the great white's attack most of the time they are just mistaken human for a seal. I will never ever jump into waters with tiger & bull shark.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Some species of sharks are definitely more aggressive like tiger sharks but basically they usually don't attack people unless they mistake them for a seal. A person laying on a surfboard can very much like the profile of seal to a shark. It's a good sign though if you see dolphins. Most of the time sharks will stay clear of dolphins. Honestly snorkeling in Florida I'm worried more about the barracuda that would actually track you instead of sharks that were usually just a little curious.
#9
I grew up diving, as my family owned a dive shop. I've dove all over the globe, but the thing that creeped me out most happened on my local lake. I was about ten, and had taken our ski boat from the dock to a secluded cove to look for an abandoned cemetery (the lake was created by TVA in the 30's and displaced an entire town, leaving several places like this lost in the trees with no access). When I got onto the shore, I found a blanket with all the edges tied together to make a bundle. I didn't open it, but did some exploratory poking. There was obviously a cinder block in there, and the rest was just squishy. After a particularly vigorous poke, blood started seeping through the blanket. I hauled my little a*s back to the boat and never looked back. Decades later, I still think about that and wonder what was in there.
On a lighter note, our shop got a lot of business retrieving dropped items and speed boats that idiots would sink. My dad was the shop's master instructor and normally passed these jobs on to me or one of the regulars. However, he took one job in January to test his new dry suit and took along one of his friends. I was their gear-tote, and waited on shore. Dad came up first, and started telling me about this weird looking fishing lure he'd found while sifting through the silt. About that time, the buddy surfaces and asks dad why he was playing with that tampon for so long.
I had an awesome childhood.
Brandi Delph 3 years ago
More likely a litter of unwanted kittens or puppies. My grandfather from KY used to talk about that's just what people did
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Xenon 3 years ago
Why the hell did you not report the blanket?? Police would be obviously very interested.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
As someone else said, it was probably kittens or puppies. People used to do this all the time.
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Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 7 years ago. Who are you talking to?
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Amber Hartsfield 3 years ago
YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A CHARACTER IN THE BONES TV SHOWWW WHY DIDNT YOU TELL DA POLICE
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 7 years ago. Who are you talking to?
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I was leading a group of 8 students on a night dive off of our liveaboard dive boat in Egypt. Every few minutes I'd turn around and just make sure everyone was still there and hadn't gotten lost. About 30 mins into the dive, we all settled onto the bottom in a circle to turn off our lights and check out the bioluminescence . After we turned our lights back on I scanned the circle quickly to count everyone.
Kneeling off to one side of the group, alone, with no dive light, 45' underwater with no other boats in sight on the surface, was a single unknown person - fully geared up, breathing steadily, and making eye contact with me.
I panicked a bit right then because I had NO idea who the f**k this person was or where they came from or what they were doing down there... and so I did the only logical thing: lead my group back to the boat, and never mentioned it to any of the kids.
Still creeps me out.
Camilore 3 years ago
Was it the same person from the story above? Who knows? Dark waters are mysterious and haunted by some very disturbed and lost souls…Anyway, very scary stuff 😬😨
Stephanie Gray 3 years ago
I thought the same thing..... Is the ET's that have underwater bases checking them out.....
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SupernaturalPanda 3 years ago
What the hell?? Why are random strangers appearing outta damn nowhere in the ocean? I smell a conspiracy 😜
Alexi Shorette 3 years ago
I would have mentioned it to the kids to see if they somehow knew who it was
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
It's that same ghost diver! This has gotta be one of those stories told among divers. A group of divers goes on a night dive, turns out their lights to see the bioluminescense and an extra person appears.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
I swear, on every one of our planets, there's probably some guy just sitting there creepin'...
#11
My grandpa was in the Royal Australian Navy during the Vietnam War. They were taught to shake the hand of dead sailors when recovering the bodies to make them more comfortable and familiar with handling a dead body. On my grandpa's first recovery dive, he shook the hand of a dead sailor and the arm came off the body. Had to keep his cool and bring the body up, but still pretty messed up.
Jessany Trotter 3 years ago
Me too… just picturing the “whoopsie daisy!” face. Lol
Load More Replies... Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
....... that would make it even harder for me. Like... how would shaking a dead man's hand make it easier? Like... nah.
#12
I was snorkeling in the Bahamas when I came across a barracuda that was at least 2 metres long. Eerie looking creature, just sat there with its teeth poking all grumpy looking. Turns out after speaking to the locals, this particulate barracuda is called Henry and these waters have been his territory for years.
Sandy Parker 3 years ago
I've been diving and snorkeling with them on several occasions. They are scary looking with those crazy teeth.
#13
I was diving with some friends and found a fisherman's glove with a hand still inside it. We brought the glove to the local police and they told us that they hadn't received any kind of report of a guy with a missing hand.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
There was a story about them finding a bunch of shoes with feet still in them on the beach but when they did a thorough investigation they found out that there was a flood at the body farm and they had washed up from there. For those who don't know the body farm is a place that people can donate their bodies to and they study the different ways they decompose naturally or in a car trunk different ways so that investigators can better figure time of death. Maybe this was just something like that.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago (edited)
People kept finding shoes with feet in them fairly regularly in the Pacific Northwest (region in the USA). There was talk of a possible serial killer or even more than one. It turns out people were dying by suicide jumping off bridges, and that was the first part that would fall off during decomposition and then float to shore with the shoe.
Load More Replies... Superninjatiger 3 years ago
I'm just trying to imagine a person coming in to a police station with the hand. What do you do with it? Put it in a bag and go "ta-da look what we found!"
#14
On one of my night dives at the Flower Garden Banks Marine Sanctuary in either 2005 or 2006, had my first encounter with a Beaded Sea Cucumber. I thought I stepped out of the real world and into a science fiction/fantasy world seeing this long worm with tentacles surrounding it's mouth like a cross between a snake and an octopus. Very scary initially, now I look for them because they are pretty cool.
On a more recent dive (this spring), although I knew I was going to see it (the whole purpose of the dive after all), finding the 3 year old 80 lb golden lab that had been swept away in the spring floods and trapped in debris under a bridge scared the heck out of me when I first found her body visually. Knowing you are looking for it, and actually finding it are two different things. But at least I was able to bring her body home for her family.
Sarah Bell 3 years ago
Thank you for helping give the family closure . I have a feeling someone will say it's just a dog but they have no idea how important our furry little family members are to us . Nit being able to burry or create a pet is awful because you don't have the chance foe a final goodbye or a place to visit to reconnect to them or a urn to have them close by .
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
Awww. Why does this upset me more than a person? I mean, finding dead people is real sad. But for some reason the dog hurts more.
#15
While in Egypt I decided to go snorkeling in the ocean. Water was maybe hip deep and I am floating around just enjoying the view and the atmosphere, when I come by a sea anemone. Not expecting anything bad, I just want to float by, when this freaking Nemo (clown-fish) attacks me and hit's my goggles. I am so scared, I scream, which is a bad idea as screaming under water leads to water in your lounge, leads to almost dying, until I finally remember to just freaking stand up and take a deep breath. Stupid fish scared the air out of me. Nemo is a ruthless killer, do not let the movie tell you otherwise.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
I've also been attacked by clown fish while diving. It was adorable.
Persephone 3 years ago
Hey you saw where Marlin's home was... and who kidnapped his son! You should know better!!!
#16
It was my first deep wreck dive, and I was venturing in the hold of a sunken fishing trawler. At the bottom of the dark hold, I found a full size skeleton. My wife and dive buddy freaked out, and swam straight into the wall. She dropped her dive light, which settled 20 feet below between the skeleton's legs. I dove down alone to get it, because SCUBA gear is expensive. Up close, that skeleton was an obvious plant.
#17
Divers in one area of Honduras took to feeding an eel. It was a big a*s moray eel, and it got to like divers, because they always gave it food.
One day I was on a dive and nobody gave it food, and the dive master didn't really mention it. Next thing you know this tame moray eel is swimming furiously after a half dozen divers, and they are scared as s**t. I hovered about 20 feet above them and watched the mayhem unfold. These people all thought they were going to die, but really that six foot moray eel with razer sharp teeth only wanted his doggie snacks.
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
And this is one of several reasons why feeding wildlife like this is not a good idea.
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
There is the case of the guy who was in the habit of feeding a certain moray sausages. Turns out, morays can’t see a difference between sausages…..and fingers.
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Norman Woelk 3 years ago
we used to take a can of Vienna Sausages to feed the fish on Guam. There is a reason women outlive men.
Persephone 3 years ago
Yeah some guy got his finger eaten by 1 that was regularly fed hotdogs...
#18
Surfer here. Grew up in Southern California now live and surf on the east coast. In the outer banks area of North Carolina, there are tons of sharks which are usually not aggressive so I have no problem surfing around black tip sharks and such. Was out on the water for a sunrise surf session when a fifteen foot manta ray literally jumped over me. His (her?) wing slapped me on the back and knocked me into the water and all I could think of was how Steve Erwin died and I literally crapped myself.
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
Steve Irwin was stabbed in the chest by a ray while filming a show about wildlife. It was an accident and some of his last words were saying that he didn’t blame the ray. It just happened to stab him in the chest, which was lethal.
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Persephone 3 years ago
Mantas do not have barbs. They can't harm you other than slapping you for being stupid.
Amy Haggerty 3 years ago
Manta rays don’t sting. Irwin was killed by a sting ray which is much smaller than a 15 ft manta. Ignorant and dramatic.
Robert Robi Z 2 years ago
Luckily, manta rays don't have stingers and are completely harmless if you are not plancton.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Why venom? Manta rays don't have venom or poison. They're just really huge.
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#19
This happened when I was doing my 2nd dive on the entry level course to a scuba diving organization (I can't recall the name).
So we're about to descend to the ocean floor to do some basic exercises (e.g. letting water into your mask and getting it out again). My friend, let's call him Daniel, was the first diver that descended all the way with the instructor, but when his flippers touched the ground there was a hidden wobbegong shark. He hit it, and it RUSHED towards and bit Daniel in the thigh. Daniel was scared and ascended WAY to quickly (ascending to quickly without proper "form" can kill you). He was scared shitless, and so was I as I was right next to him. I grabbed his calf and tried to push him down and he kinda realized what he was doing. At the moment I was scared, but 10 minutes later on the boat we nicknamed him "The Shark Tamer" - everything really does want to kill you in Australia huh.
Stuart Griffiths 3 years ago
In fact f@#k all these posts can't look down the list any more afraid for life of all water except the bath
Captain Awesome 3 years ago
Wobegongs CAN'T bite. They have teeth smaller than sand grains. Probably just a headbutt
#20
This was a long time ago, but okay. It was a training dive under the ice: Enter via a bubbler keeping ice from a ferry, swim out to a sunken wreck via lines, stick to cave protocol the whole time. Five tank dive, each, with mixed gases and O2 for decompression. On the way back, well over 90 minutes in the water, [a fellow diver's] reg explodes into a free flow. No problem: Swap onto another, kill that tank at the valve, stow it and keep going. Two minutes later it happens again. No problem - we keep going. Then again. Sh*t is serious now, and we've all got extra regulators at the ready. Buddy is getting a little shaky, and suddenly he hits his drysuit inflator and flies upward. We followed as fast as we could without blowing our deco and endangering more people, and pass through a cloud of blood. Found him wedged in a crack about five minutes later, already gone.
Sarah Bell 3 years ago
That's terrible. Do you have any idea why that kept happening. I'm nit a diver . Can anyone explain what happened in a different way . I mean I get the gist but would like to understand more .
FlickeringLight 3 years ago
Cold water can make your regulator free flow, meaning instead of the air being controlled with your breathing, it will just start spewing out air at an uncontrolled rate. It happened twice to the diver, and it sounds like he panicked and hit the inflation button for his drysuit, which made him ascend too quickly. The cloud of blood was likely a result of ascending too quickly, resulting in the air in his lungs expanding too fast, causing them to rupture.
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Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Who are you saying that to? It was posted on Reddit 5 years ago.
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Tony James 3 years ago
Free-flow is terrifying. Had one quarry-diving in England in March (because BSAC divers are a tough breed, is why!) - tiny ice granule in the DV, full full tank empty in what felt like seconds. Thank god we'd spent all winter in the pool drilling air-sharing, it just kicked in - move to your buddy, grab the tank stem, one hand over the DV, out-in-out-in, pass it back, twin ascent. It worries me when I know my buddy has got 6 hours under his belt on a PADI course somewhere warm, because I never know just how badly they're going to freak out.
Kari Lynn 3 years ago
UPDATE! WE need an update telling us why all the dude's regulators are exploding. Someone wanted that dude dead.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 5 years ago. Click the link under the picture and maybe find out more.
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Down in La Jolla California, they have caves along the coast that you can swim through, if the tides are right. This particular day the water level was high enough that you could swim through this one cave that was pretty narrow. Well, it's my turn to swim and when I'm half way through a set wave comes in and clears the cave while I'm still in it. I was smashed against the side of the cave, bloodied up the back of my shoulder pretty good.
But we're thinking, well s**t, we just got in the water. We were planning on swimming out to a buoy and then back to shore. So I just say f**k it, let's do it, exposed wound in an area known for Great White sightings, no big deal, gotta get a work out in!
Well we get to the buoy and I just have the biggest sense of dread. We're probably a good 15 minute swim from shore and I start thinking about this wound on my arm just leaking shark bait into this giant vast ocean full of stuff that probably wants to eat me. Sure enough, I'm looking down and I see something swimming towards me, it's dark. I'm like what the f**k what the f**k what the f**k and I started swimming away from it, and I turn around to and I see two more of the same things coming at me from different directions. My face goes completely white, I'm expected to get grabbed and pulled under and never seen again. Nothing happens.
My friends can see the look on my face and they're asking me what happened. We all decide to swim in together. My friends were all better swimmers than me, but on that day I beat them all back to the shore easily. I'm practically kissing the sand when I finally made it to the shore and this old man comes up to me and says:
"You shouldn't be swimming with that cut on your arm, you're attracting sharks!"
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
Jesus, that was one stupid decision! Luck was on that person's side that day!!!
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
The sharks were smart, and disappointed. "Damn it Fred, we swam from a mile away just to find one of those tasteless, stringy humans? Ugh."
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Maybe I overlooked something, but was there any alternative to continuing swimming in the sea? They couldn't teleport back to shore, right?
#22
Well I definitely *don't* love water, but here's mine:
Was down by the beach, was around thirteen. My brothers and I went down there to play a lot around then. There's a seagull, they're pretty common around there, flies down to the water to grab a tasty fish. Well, it must have misjudged the size, because whatever it was grabbed the seagull and dragged it under water.
Dunno what it was, but I didn't want to play in the same water as it.
#23
Drift diving in Sulawesi, Indonesia and I glided over at least a dozen human skulls in a distance of about 30 yards.
Ronda News Channel 3 years ago
Where is the exact location? On 1 January 2007, Adam Air flight 574 crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali Sulawesi.102 people on board died.
Hutt'nKloas 3 years ago
Can be anything. Many sailors/soldiers never have been recovered after their ships have been sunk in ww2. Then the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake & tsunami, also many people never have been found again.
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there's bound to be a lot of skeletons etc after the horrible boxing day tsunami
Sammie 19 3 years ago
My cousin and his wife were caught up in it. He survived but his wife didn't. Absolutely awful. He has remarried now but still has horrible nightmares about it.
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Went snorkeling off the coast of Mozambique near an island when a dugong swam right under me. It was MASSIVE. I literally peed myself.
GlamourGhoul 3 years ago
They're very similar to a manatee. At least they're vegetarian, so they won't eat you!!
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Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
My sister had a manatee swim next to her, but it scared my mom half to death because she thought it was a bull shark 😂
Norman Woelk 3 years ago
Many years ago Skin Diver magazine had an article about how the human body is perfect for diving: Saliva is good to keep your mask from fogging and pee warms your wet suit and is also a good shark repellent. There were a few other things but that was in the 1970's so the memory is bad.
CnCitsdynamite 3 years ago
That’s so cool! We have the manatees here in the Florida springs. Such beautiful gentle creatures, and so much bigger in person.
*insertaestheticusername* 3 years ago
i was swimming near florida and my dad pointed at something below me... it was a huge manatee and its calf. i was terrified cause i didn't know what it was at the moment and i accidentally kicked the baby trying to get away :( i felt so bad after.
#25
Bodies.
One summer at my cousin's lake house, my cousins and I were out swimming and at one point my sister started screaming bloody murder. All the adults jumped into the lake to drag her out.
Turns out she had just had seaweed wrap around her leg. What our parents hadn't told us was that a man had drowned in the lake and his body hadn't been recovered yet. He washed up on our shore the next day.
Still a little scared to swim in that lake.
Gawaget The Object Thingy 3 years ago
When I was a kid, maybe7 or 8 yrs old at the time, we were visiting Carlyle Lake in Illinois. While we were swimming there was a big commotion the park rangers showed up all the adults and us kids linked hands and walked together looking for something. I didn't know it at the time but a little girl had gone missing they found her the next day her hair wrapped around the buoys that mark the boundaries of the swimming area
#26
I was snorkeling in a decommissioned canal when on a family vacation in Canada. I was in 12 year old heaven, as everything I lifted had large crayfish under it. I go into a rhythm of lift, grab catch, lift grab, catch, when I saw a weathered log. I sprayed bubbles into the clear water when I realized the "log" was actually the tail of a gigantic snapping turtle.
#27
A little late but here I go. I was 8 or 9 yrs old, snorkeling in Florida at sunset maybe 6-8 ft from shore 4-5ft of water. There were huge schools of smaller fish swimming right up to the edge of the shore break, we're talking thousands of fish, and I noticed that if you dove under and swam against the sand the fish would envelope you in a shiny silvery bubble. It was beautiful and honestly enchanting and I got lost just doing this. On one of my dips underwater, im just going along the bottom when suddenly my bubble opens dead ahead and all I see is long sharp teeth, a giant dark eye, and something much larger than me grazes over my back. As fast as it happened, my bubble is my own again and I stand up and haul a*s out the water. Turns out it was a large sand tiger shark (9-11ft) patrolling through the bait fish.
#28
Scariest thing for me when diving was the first time I was truly in some deep water. Diving the Bloody Bay Wall in the Caymans, we go through a cut in the coral and the next thing we know we are spit out of the wall into the open ocean. Looking down you can't see the bottom and then I remember, this is the start of the Cayman Trough which goes down a little over 25k feet. Was a very primal fear that made me feel I should not be here.
#29
I was diving in Thailand and we were at a site diving where there were two steep hills underwater full of rock formations, coral etc. Between these two areas was a sandy bottom with scattered rocks ranging between the 1-5 meters across, all full of holes and full of life.
Were were swimming from one hill to the next and inspecting these rocks along the way. I was swimming along one large one when I get wacked in the side of my stomach very hard. It startled the s**t out of me and I quickly back off. The dive instructor noticed and came over and we inspected what happened.
That's when we a gigantic moray eel (I'm later told it was a Giant Moray). He was absolutely massive, never seen one so big. Was easily a couple meters in length and was probably as wide as my head. We assume I had passed too close without noticing and he attacked, he hit my BCD and luckily didn't persist.
cat? 3 years ago
when you cry a little bit because you were scared as s**t that’s a moray
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Fish Fingers 3 years ago (edited)
When an eel punches you, and you don't have a clue, that's a moray...
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
It really took 9 of these comments before I recognized the song! >.<
Load More Replies... kath morgan 3 years ago (edited)
He was pïssed because you didn’t sing the song! You have to sing the song!
Mario Strada 3 years ago
Back in the 70s my family used to go camping near a popular diving spot. One day one of the boats arrives at the beach like a bat out of hell. A german tourist limps out and he has a moray eel head still clamped on his leg. The adults had to take him and his fish to Urgent Care (They tried taking the head off, but it made the pain worse). I learned to be careful around caves from then on.
#30
So I'm in Cancun, Mexico with my host family (exchange student). There's this hotel that's surrounded by a river thingy that you snorkel in.
I can't sink (lol thanks, body fat) so I don't have a life jacket. I'm about a mile of swimming into the river when I see something interesting at the bottom.
I struggle downwards (the water was maybe 9-12 feet deep?) and I see it's a conch shell! What a perfect present for my younger host sister, it's her birthday today and she's love it!
I keep trying to swim to the bottom, only to get pulled back up, over and over by my own mass. It's been thirty minutes and I have a headache. I'm not going to give up that easily.
I manage to get a hand on the shell, and pull it toward me! Victory!
I have a sudden sharp pain on my stomach. I drop the shell in surprise, and I see a little blood coming out of a new wound. I swim to land, and investigate the mark on the shore.
The wound was bizarre, shallow but in a shape that looks like the bite from human molars. I've been pinched by crabs plenty of times, and this looked nothing like a crab pinch. Didn't feel like one either.
I couldn't figure out what was living in that shell. I scoured the internet and my zoology textbook, but nothing matched my bite marks.
To this day, I still don't know what bit me.
Donkey Pandaaaaaaaa 3 years ago
I can’t remember the name but there’s a poisonous sea creature that looks like a conch shell and shoots a tiny harpoon-like sting with poison in it that’s enough to kill it’s prey but not affect humans. Maybe it was that?
thatawkwardhistorian 3 years ago
It's called a cone snail, but based on the bite description, it doesn't seem to be that.
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Linda Lee 3 years ago
"The Wrath of the Abyss", coming to theaters near you!" I'd pay to see that movie.
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tristan davis 3 years ago
Poisonous are the ones if you eat it you will die. Venomous animals are the ones that if you get bit, your body will start to shut down, and the venom will eat at your body from the inside.
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Ok here's a fun one, made me feel like a b***h at the time, but now I look back and laugh. Snorkeling on the gulf side of Mexico, just after high school. Had set up a day beach, good location, water dropped to about 20 feet deep just a short distance off shore. Things are going well, we're seeing just HUNDREDS of fish, small school of puffers (didn't even know they schooled), which scared a few people. So at one point, I'm just swimming back up to the shallow beach, and turn around to swim backward, when I see... I don't know, 6-12 of these small fish, white bodies with yellow fins, RIGHT off the end of my flippers, swimming HARD. Like, chasing me. Moments later I'm scrambling up on the sand like a shark is right on my a*s. Did that whole "look around to see if anyone noticed me being a fool" thing. In retrospect, they probably liked the current I was generating with the flippers or something, I know they weren't dangerous. There's just something truly freightening about so much smaller than yourself being aggressive or chasing you. TL;DR Chased by tiny, probably harmless fish while snorkeling, scared the c**p out of me.
tristan davis 3 years ago
Some small fish can be really dangerous. Piranha's travel in groups of 30 but can get up to 100, and eat away at your flesh.
Sandy Parker 3 years ago
What scared the daylights out of me - I was snorkeling at Christmas Island in the Virgin Islands during my honeymoon and all the sudden fairly large fish are flying by ME going toward the beach. OH S**T! What is coming? Never found out.
#32
I swam out into the middle of a lake in northern Wisconsin on a warm summer day. I was floating on my back, just relaxing. After a bit, I started thinking about how deep the water was, and then about a horror movie I had recently seen that featured a giant monster bursting up through the water in a lake not unlike the one that i was floating in.
I started to feel kind of nervous.
Suddenly, I heard the most god-awful roar as if the lake was exploding beneath me. Terrified, I bolted up to tread water only to see the trailing smoke from a SAC fighter jet that was practicing flying under radar.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Oh, man. Low flying jets have roars that come out of nowhere and shake you to your core!
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I'd be scared to swim into the middle of a lake like that just because of boats. People are hard to see in the water.
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
Lakes are terrifying imo, but my biggest fear would be to bump into a corpse. Books and tv series made this fear increase tenfold.
#33
Not sure if this counts, but I learned to scuba dive in False Bay while on vacation in Cape Town a few years ago. Not even a week later, a man was eaten (not just bit!) by a "dinosaur sized" great white in the same area we were diving. I'm sure this sounds dramatic but I haven't dived since and probably never will. I get goose bumps just thinking about it.
Witnesses described the terrifying scene. The shark was "longer than a minibus", Coppen told the Cape Times newspaper. He said: "It was this giant shadow heading to something colourful. Then it sort of came out the water and took this colourful lump and went off with it. You could see its whole jaw wrap around the thing which turned out to be a person."
News article about the attack:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/13/cape-town-giant-shark-attack
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Colossus? Air Jaws? Deep Blue? But I don't think Deep Blue was ever in False Bay.
#34
When I was taking my navigation portion of my PADI advanced certification, my instructor had me swim out from the wall into the deep blue, all while swimming completely by compass. While I was on my return swim a remora attached itself to my stomach causing me to spit out my regulator, inhale water, and freak the f**k out. The scariest part was that I had swam far enough from the wall that the instructor and the dive group could see none of this happening. Luckily I did the proper regulator recovery before I inhaled too much water and drown. The remora did end up following us the rest of the dive. So, at least when we got topside and I told everyone what happened they believed me.
BasedWang12.2 3 years ago
If it wasn't for this website, I would not know what a remora is. This is the second time I've seen it written on here
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 3 years ago
what does this have to do with the story?
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I was scuba diving with my family in hawaii. We were pretty deep, im guessing like 25 feet under water, when the lady in front of me kicked out my breathing mouth piece. I had just blown out all of the air in my lungs so im deep under water with no oxygen and not a whole lot of time to react. So i start clawing for the surface frantically. As i was going up i felt this horrible expanding feeling in my chest. It was the scariest moment in my life. One of the instructors popped up a minute or two later and said she didnt expect me to be alive or concious or something like that. I went back to the hotel pretty shaken up and cried a little bit from sheer terror. It was a rough day
Corey Smith 3 years ago
25 feet is not deep. Did you not have a backup regulator (or "breathing mouth piece'" as you call it)?
LoneTomato 3 years ago
Maybe they meant meters? I don't know much about diving though, so I can only guess.
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Someone didn't pay attention in diving class. Boyles law of gases. I always liked Martini's law for Nitrogen Narcosis (drunkenness of the deep).
#36
Was doing a drift dive down in Mexico. Saw a VERY large grouper off in the distance. Let myself drift towards it. I soon realized it was far bigger than I had thought and I was putting myself in danger (possibly). This thing could have taken me down too far or damaged my gear or knocked me out. I've seen videos of these things eating 4 foot sharks. And this bad boy was bigger than the ones in the videos. I was a bit shaken after that dive.
#37
I did find a bag full of cat bones once... we were pretty perplexed about it. We brought it up and found a cross and rocks in the bag. I'm assuming (hoping) it was a burial of a loved family pet and not the alternative.
#38
I was diving off the coast of Fiji and we went through a natural tunnel (like a 10-meter cave/passage through a rock formation). So we start swimming through the cave and suddenly the light was weird, like the blue tint from the water has been replaced by a red one. Now all divers will know that this isn't only weird because the color changed but also because red is the first color to disappear after a certain depth (usually between 30 feet and 40 feet), and we were over 70 feet deep. Also bare in mind this was late morning on a sunny day. So imagine this scene: Me and my dive buddy are going through an underwater cave and suddenly everything, for no apparent reason, is tinted red, a color that you are literally supposed to be unable to see while diving at that depth during the day. Upon exiting the cave, everything was back to blue. I thought it was just me so I didn't signal to go back up. After the dive my buddy asked me if I'd seen the water tint red too. We can't explain it and the folks from the local dive shop had no idea what we were talking about.
tristan davis 3 years ago
Algae is green, not red. Maybe on Coral Reef's, but that's like a long way up and back to shore.
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#39
Was diving off Gloucester north of Boston and saw what I thought was a blanket spread on the bottom. It looked like there was something under it so I went closer thinking I'd see what was under it. When I was about a foot away I realize it's not a blanket with it rises up and faces me. It's a very large [torpedo ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_torpedo). These are a member of the electric ray family and can generate enough charge to render a human unconscious. I almost swallowed my regulator. Fortunately he wasn't aggressive and I just backed away slowly with my heart pounding rapidly.
#40
Not a diver, but my dad is a PADI instructor and used to run a small diving business.
He has hundreds of awesome pictures that he has taken while diving, but he told me a few weeks ago that when he was In Tobermory, he went to a wreck and found the exact dive camera he was using, and it looked pretty new on the floor of the water.
Apparently he noped so far out of there.
Oh and he's seen like creepy s**t. Like dolls, and creepy old antiques and s**t
Tess the ferret 3 years ago
The camera, was it creepy bc it was new and abandoned so there was something wrong there? I'm so confused 😂
Norman Woelk 3 years ago
This makes no sense. Tobermory Canada is off Georgian Bay (part of Lake Huron). Nothing big or scary there. More than likely got knocked off a boat and no one noticed. Probably a Nikonos as they were the most popular film cameras before digital.
#41
I was out doing my job one time in the absolute darkness of the void. I had been out a good 30 or 45 minutes when I saw something swish over the top of my vision really fast. I looked around, couldn't see anything. Spooked me good and so I just focused on my tactical breathing and not losing my fingers. A minute passed and I saw something go a little behind the pylon and down. I was 100% sure it was a kraken or some sh*t. Another minute passes and then this 2-or-so-foot fish comes swimming up to me. Weird looking motherf*cker. Pale and long and skinny with BIG eyes and a bigger mouth. It just kind of darted around me for a bit, just hanging out with me while I worked. When I was done, he took off.
#42
I was like 8-9 and snorkeling in hawaii. I turned around in only a couple feet of water and a turtle rammed me full speed in the face. Scared the hell out of me and broke my goggles. Dunno what the hell it was doing
Amber Kaul 3 years ago
It was probably following you just being a stinker and ran into you not paying attention XD
#43
I was knee boarding one time in a lake not too far outside of my home town. The water is very murky and dark. Well the front end of the board dipped downward in to the water but I kept holding on to the rope. I shot probably a good 20+ feet deep in a matter of a couple of second and when I let go I completely lost my place it space. It was pitch black and I couldn't tell if I was right side up or upside down. Didn't really "find" anything scary but being that lost in space is truly terrifying. Started buying more buoyant life jackets from that point forward.
Angry Little Hedgehog 3 years ago (edited)
Maybe it was too dark to see but letting out a bit of breath to see which way the bubbles float shows the up direction. Glad you were okay.
#44
South Floridian, here. I grew up fishing and diving, which has led to a few notable stories. The one that sticks out the most was during my high school years. I had just taken a deep breath and gone down to a reef about thirty or so below. My friend was still on the boat above and we were the only ones on the reef. I got down to the bottom and noticed a thin upright pole. Upon closer inspection it was indeed a normal fishing pole, but old and rotten under the water for so long. Right as I was going to grab the pole it was pulled from my hands, just shooting up and away, as if being reeled in by the other side. It was gone within a matter of seconds, so i started my resurface expecting to see another boat responsible. No boats, nothing in sight, but of course just my friend and his boat. I never bothered telling him, because he would have never believed me anyway. The only explanation I might have is that the pole was still attached to a fish or something, although I doubt it. Still gives me goose bumps thinking about it.
#45
Was snorkeling a few hundred meters off shore in the Cayman Islands when I stumbled upon what i thought where two big a*s sharks just chillin. Michael phelps would've been jealous of the speed I was swimming back to shore before I realized that they weren't actually sharks but rather two average size tarpons. Great time
Bunzilla 3 years ago
Ditto XD (For anyone, like me, who didn't know what a tarpon was, they're a species of fish that grow to around 1.2m - 2.4m (4' - 8') in length. Big fish! )
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Probably not the story OP is looking for, but still scared me! I do recreational scuba diving with my grandfather, nothing too deep I think we went to ninety feet once. We have only dove twenty or so times and nothing too recent due to my grandfathers buoyancy issues. When you go diving one of the first things you want to do after getting to depth is attain your buoyancy so you can control your depth through you breathing. My grandpa can do this just fine, maintains this state is an issue for him. Whenever he takes a deep breath and starts floating up he dumps his air, starts falling to the ocean floor, and then pumps his BC full of air again causing him to float up even more. This is a huge problem. So most of our dives went well and this wasn't a huge issue, but when we were on vacation in Cozumel he scared me to death. We were doing a reef dive (40-60 feet) having a good time when he starts fidgeting with his buoyancy. Next thing I know I see him float up nearly to the surface and then come crashing back down to my level. A few minutes later he goes soaring back up this time reaching the surface and all I see is I'm flopping about the waves. Now I don't know how easy it is to get the Benz or how easily this can kill someone, but seeing him just flip around on the surface freaked me out. The worst part is I'm 50 feet down and helpless to do anything. When we finally got back to the boat he was puking, but nothing else ever came of the incident. That was the last time we dove and as much as I enjoyed sharing the experience with him I don't plan on ever diving with him again.
Sandy Parker 3 years ago
My x husband could not regulate his breathing at all and we had to abandon a great dive in St Lucia. He got to the top and threw up. Ingested water and came down with pneumonia. Fun times. Should have cut my loses then! Next story - a day later we were at the resort and swimming at the end of the beach - all the sudden we started getting stung. Can't see anything. It was getting worse so we got out of the water. Turns out there was a hatching of some sort of jelly fish. 1/2 hour later people were really getting stung bad. The rest of the day you couldn't even go in the water!
#47
I was snorkeling in the Caribbean and I got separated from the rest of the group. We had be sticking close to the shore to look at the small fish and things. Touristy stuff. I stayed behind to look at a small school of fish and when I looked up they were all way ahead of me.
To catch up, I took a shortcut across deep water. I was swimming along for a while, not seeing any fish or anything, when I just saw a murky outline in the distance. You know, when you're looking at something underwater from a distance and its just a shape? Like that. But it was huge. Easily bigger than me. Just slowly swimming parallel with me.
I didn't take the time to investigate it closer and just swam to shore as fast as I could. Still gives me chills when I think about it.
#48
I was about to go on a night dive along the GBR outside of Bundaberg when I couldn't get my wireless watch to sync to my tank, so I waved my dive buddies on telling them I'd catch up later. I finally get the watch to sync and check in with the dive master and leap off the boat into the black water. I am really good at going down fast so I sink to the bottom and then shut off my flash light and start swimming to the divers in the distance. Night divers are not hard to find as they are the only source of light, so I keep my flashlight off and swim through the darkness towards the group. Every once in awhile I shine my light around to see landmarks and keep on a decent path. I started using a small coral outcropping as a guide. Just as I come upon it I shine my flashlight only to scare the p**s out of a shark that I only get a strobe like glimpse of as my light bounces off its snout and in a huge rush of bubbles going tearing off into the black. I calmly try to maintain my breathing so as to preserve my air and slowly swim to the group. I thought it was a nurse shark. I kind of still do. But I found out the next morning a tiger shark was curious about us and hanging around since the late afternoon. We ended up seeing it the next day as it swam around us in the distance. And then we even watched it attack a turtle for a half hour during lunch. So it may have been that bad boy I ran into in the pitch black ocean.
BasedWang12.2 3 years ago
If it isn't for a job, night diving just sounds like you are searching for a bad time
Kari Lynn 3 years ago
Right! F**k the bioluminescence...get a velvet poster and a blacklight.
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#49
Guns... dozens and dozens of guns. Rotten stock and rusted closed, but there are certain spots locally where I can bring up as many as I can carry just about every dive.
#50
Me and a buddy of mine were diving the Edmonds Oil Pier in Washington. We're cruising along and he points his light out into the murkiness that is Puget Sound. I see this white streak in the distance. Both of us drop to the bottom and get behind one of the pylons and watch as a pod of orcas goes by. If we had been in the open water, we would have been a tasty morsel for the pod
Mirt 3 years ago
There is no record of an orca ever killing a human in the wild. They are actually part of the dolphin family, not sharks, maybe that has something to do with it? I don't know. I just watch alot of National Geographic.
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
Just like with sharks, we don’t have enough fat/are too skinny to be natural prey. A pod would laugh at one puny 200lb (yes, American and can’t convert) human…..and, being members of the dolphin family, are smart enough to do so!🤣
Load More Replies... Amber Kaul 3 years ago
Actually their not being overdramatic their diving suits would have definitely made them look like seals and with a whole pod of orcas they could have been killed. You have to remember just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't happen.
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scuba diving down a ledge - dim, a bit murky: doll's head lodged on the ledge face made me scream into my regulator.
#52
I was spearfishing in the Bahamas once with some friends a few years back. I had finally killed a good sized black grouper under this rock that had taken 4 shafts already so I turned around to show my friend and his face was blank staring past me. I turned around and a bull shark that must've been 10ft at least came up from below us and ate the whole grouper shaft and all. It yanked my pole spear too so now I was in the water defenseless with an aggressive bull swimming around. I got back on the boat quicker than I have at any other point in my life.
#53
I had had my certification for about a year and had not done any diving and I was itching to do so. Best I could muster at the time was a fresh water dive in Canyon Lake. A buddy was gonna dive with me but backed out at the last moment and sat on shore. Knowing I should never solo dive I said screw it were only talking 30' - 50' feet and jumped in and started a slow descent. Really nothing to see until I got near the bottom and saw an old pickup truck was down there. I swam around it and wiped the silt off the doors windshield and shined my dive light inside to see if I could see anything but nope just silt particles floating in the clear, clear water. I tried the truck's door handle and it opened with little effort. Just then the biggest catfish I have ever seen in person darted out at me. It was bigger than a washing machine and scared the living f**k out of me. I choked and gobbled and started to shoot up before I caught myself and slowed down. When I surfaced my friend said he had never seen my eyes so wide and that was through my mask. He thought I found a dead person. Same weekend I dove in a river and could not surface due to all the [Nutria](http://www.skyhdwallpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nutria_Family-Pic.jpg) above me. Hundreds of them. Had to go down a ways to get out. Those were my first two dives other than certification. Since have had many, many and yes in salt water ;). Had a grouper swallow my arm once while petting it but he released immediately, no harm.
#54
I was a commercial pearl diver on the north coast of Australia. For roughly three years. Had several face to face encounters with crocodiles and sharks. Diving during the "wet" season was the worst. Almost zero visibility, from the rivers running out the ocean. Did I just bump into a log or a croc? Sharks working out our dive schedules. Good Times, good times.
#55
Got my fin tugged on while free diving in a kelp forest only to whip around and see a curious harbor seal, also fully hit a female elephant seal while boogie boarding on a wave in a surf break. Both of which scared the s**t out of me but were kinda funny. Also saw a baby great white (or possibly a thresher shark) in a surf line up, wither way took the next wave in.
#56
I was snorkeling on a [blue hole] (http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2010/07/21/bahamas_islandx-topper-medium.jpg) in the bahamas (not the one pictured) and this one didnt go straight down but kind of at an angle and it was 6 ft high by 20 feet wide so more crack like. I am an avid water dog and can free dive 60 feet if I have flippers on, but this cave being sideways got dark FAST. Thing was, there were a ton of angel fish about 25 feet in, so I kept going back down further and further. The last time I went in, I was down far enough I couldnt see more than 10 feet to the sides, so the edges were in complete darkness. All of a sudden I see a huge mass wiggle out and barely come into view. This this was longer than me and probably 4 times as massive. I felt my heart seize up in terror and I noped the f**k out of there. On reaching the surface and recalling what I saw, I determined it to be a [Goliath Grouper] (http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BdMOE0Gf5EI/maxresdefault.jpg) which despite its size is a mostly harmless fish. Or maybe I am lying to myself and I saw a sea monster. Either way, I've never been more scared in my life. Edit: It was [Mystery Cave] (http://offislandadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/426399_235689393186407_1189347636_n.jpg) in Exuma if anyone is interested. Google search for that string returns a lot of pics of other places, heads up.
#57
I was snorkeling in catalina, following the coastline, when I came around a bend and saw a goat sitting on the sea floor. It really tripped me out because it was just sitting there with its legs tucked under itself kind of swaying with the tide. After I was done questioning my entire sense of reality, I realized the goat was of course dead. I swam to the surface and noticed we were next to a sheer cliff face. So what I assumed happened was that the goat fell from the cliff and settled in the water like it was sitting. Tripped me out for a moment though.
#58
I like kayaking when I get the chance, but one day, in a lake up in Glacier Nation Park, Montana (The most beautiful place I've ever been, and I totally recommend it) when I saw a small boat. A little, vintage looking, tiny motorboat. The little tiny mini speed boats you always see in 70's movies set in Miami or something, just a few feet underwater, perfectly preserved. I could reach down and touch it. There was no signs of damage, no signs of why it sunk. It was strangely eerie. I had to leave because for some reason it just freaked me out. The idea that something could sit, inches from the air but still submerged for years, probably. It made me so uncomfortable and I don't know why.
#59
Scuba diver here: Once I was going along a common route between 2 underwater way points when I found a small shiny object on the sand. I recognised it as part of the assembly which fits on top of the air tank and connects to the breathing regulator. Now this is something you can't breathe without, so it creeped the hell out of me to think about the story of how such a crucial item ended up there.
#60
The water was so clear off the coast of the Outer Banks that day, I was seriously kicking my own a*s for not bringing my dive mask & flippers. We were swimming just off Nag's head pier, killing time while my friend finished his shift at the pier's fishing shop. There wasn't much to see close to shore, so I swam a bit further out, freediving here and there. The pier is about 750 feet long, and I reached the end of it without seeing anything too exciting. I finally gave up and decided to head back in. Met up with my friend after his shift, and we were talking about the clarity of the water. "No s**t!" he says, "I got some great pics of the sharks off the end of the pier!" He pulls out his phone and shows me the image of about 10 hammerheads clearly visible, circling around the exact spot where I'd decided to turn around.
#61
I was doing a solo dive on a wreck in Florida and found a dive knife. At first I was pumped to get a free knife but the more I explored the wreck the more stuff I found. Pieces of wet suit torn up and some weights made me start to feel uncomfortable. It was one of the only solo dives I did and when the visibility was only 15 ft it made me really paranoid the whole ascent.
#62
Oh, man, I got to go to the maldives really shortly after getting my open water certification, and I knew basically *nothing* about what was out there. And when you actually get out there, it's absolutely teeming with life. There are millions of fish, coral, sea slugs, all sort of things and I had no idea what was or wasn't dangerous. So I saw sharks which it turned out were absolutely not dangerous at all, but on the other hand I ended up getting stupidly close to a Moray eel, and I had no idea how dangerous it was. Moray eels are basically like the Ridley Scott's Aliens, but for real. [They clamp down with their huge jaws, and then there's a telescopic second jaw inside that shoots out and starts ripping chunks out of you.](https://youtu.be/qVQ4m8hfx-4?t=251) When I read up on them when I got back to shore, that scared the hell out of me.
#63
Not really a underwater story, But one year i was fishing the Potomac river at a dam by a recycling paper plant. The dam was old so it had a lip where if the water was low enough you could walk out and cast out into the center of the river. Well that morning i got down there early, and I saw this what appeared to be a rock or type of log like thing out in the middle of this lip. Well i was still on shore setting up my rod when i saw it move. Now i was younger back then like 16 or so but i was a big kid, 6'0 300 solid kid, and this thing was easy 6 and half foot long 5 foot wide. Well next thing i see is a Head careen up like a snake and look over at me, like its looking back at me over this shell thing. The neck was atleast 4 feet long, it got up on 4 legs of some sort and pushed off into the river. Never walked out on that lip again.
#64
A summer camp I used to go to was made on a man made reservoir. Where the reservoir was used to be a small village. When we went kayaking and canoing you could still see the top of a 40-50ft talk church steeple roughly 10-15ft below the surface of water. Turns out they've didn't tear down the village before flooding. The houses and stuff are still there.
#65
I was diving around Fishers Island, NY. The bottom was very sandy and I spotted an area about 3 feet (probably closer to 2 feet, in reality) in diameter that looked like it had been smoothed over. I figured something had been buried there, so I found the edge and stuck my knife in and tried to pry whatever it was up. Immediately, the whole thing (whatever it was) started to shift back and forth (rotating an in or two clockwise, then counterclockwise). I removed my knife, took a deep breath, and floated upwards. The shifting continued for a few seconds, then settled down. I swam off, deciding not to f**k with whatever it was. Someone suggested it was some sort of sea turtle hiding in the sand. I've never seen a sea turtle in the area and I didn't know they did that.
#66
I was on an island called Koh Lipe off the coast of Thailand. I decided to go snorkeling one day and swam out into the reef. Obviously the further out I swam the deeper it got but I enjoyed free diving at that time so swimming down to 25 or 30 feet was a fun challenge. I finally swam out to the edge of the islands shelf where it basically drops from 40ish feet deep into an abyss of nothing. I stayed there for about 5 minutes looking down over the shelf when I see something big swimming about 70 or 80 feet down. I turned right around and swam back as calmly as I could so I didn't sound like I was struggling. Once I got to shore I sat there for a good 2 hours.
#67
Creepiest thing was diving a sunk passenger ferry in Egypt and seeing suitcases of the people who died scattered around the seabed. Scariest was doing a night dive and dropping my torch - it swung on the line attaching it to my BCD and a HUGE shark swam through the beam. I grabbed the torch and shone it around, but it was nowhere to be seen. Spent the rest of the dive convinced it was stalking me in the darkness.
Amber Kaul 3 years ago
probably was you honestly should have gotten out of there when you saw it or something bad could have happened.
#68
I was surfing near the pier in Port Hueneme when I noticed a weird bright green thing under the water. I wasn't close enough to make out entirely what it was but it looked like a bright green orb about 5 ft in diameter under water. After about 10 seconds, the neon green color slowly diminished and was gone. I was pretty weirded out. Pt. Hueneme is a naval base so I thought later it might be some autonomous military submarine thingy.
#69
Diving in Cyprus, doing swim through caves. I've done several of them, but this one it was the first time due to being allowed to do the depth. When we went in, it was glorious sunshine. But in the middle of that cave, it suddenly went dark, to the point where we had to pull out our torches. Creeped me the f**k out, as if it was a bad omen. Turned out fine in the end, although it is rare that we have a dive that goes without a hitch.
#70
Snorkel in the great barrier reef. when it was time to get back on the boat the underwater photographer grabbed my attention by pointing down. I Looked down and there was this big shark just holding pattern on the bottom....needless to say I climbed to the boat rather quickly.
#71
My Dad told me a story from when he was in college. Him and his dad went diving somewhere and he went into some kind of caves. After turning a corner and exiting another mouth of the cave, he was faced with the edge of a cliff with nothing but a black abyss below him. He said it was one of the most terrifying things he has ever experienced.
#72
I was out on a pontoon in a lake with some friends swimming and found like 15 dolls in a pile like ten feet down. Not really sure what that was about. After that we drank more beer and had a fantastic day.
#73
I was diving in Thailand and we were at a site where there were two steep hills underwater full of rock formations, coral etc. Between these two areas was a sandy bottom with scattered rocks ranging between the 1-5 meters across, all full of holes and full of life. [We] were swimming from one hill to the next and inspecting these rocks along the way. I was swimming along one large one when I get hit in the side of my stomach very hard. It startled the sh*t out of me and I quickly back off. The dive instructor noticed and came over and we inspected what happened. That's when we [saw] a gigantic moray eel (I'm later told it was a giant moray). He was absolutely massive, never seen one so big. Was easily a couple meters in length and was probably as wide as my head. We assume I had passed too close without noticing and he attacked, he hit my BCD and luckily didn't persist.
#74
I was diving with some friends and found a fisherman's glove with a hand still inside it... We brought the glove to the local police and they told us that they hadn't received any kind of report of a guy with a missing hand.
What do you think ?
Linda Lee 3 years ago
I had to turn on a light at the end of this long pier. It was dark, a storm was coming, the wind was howling, the ocean was a washing machine. The light I had to turn on was at the very end of the pier. The last ten feet or so of this pier didn’t have any railing. I was young and stupid, I let go of the railing, took one step and the wind pushed me forward. I was going face first into the raging, dark ocean. Unbeknownst to me, a coworker saw me and ran after me. He had been shouting my name but I didn't hear him over the wind. He held onto the railing with one hand, grabbed my coat with the other and swung me in the air, over the ocean, back onto the pier. Thank you James, wherever you are.
Arenite 3 years ago
So, I’ve always wondered. There are lots of animals/fish/insects that have bright colored coats/scales/whatever. The colors are a warning to other creatures that they taste really bad, are poisonous, etc. Why do divers wear black suits? Shouldn’t they wear bright colors too, to keep other ( large, hungry, curious) fish away from them? Surfers on bright orange boards, divers in suits patterned after the fish the others won’t mess with. Makes sense to me.
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
As an Aussie, I'm just pleasantly surprised to see our country not featured much on this list.
Linda Lee 3 years ago
I had to turn on a light at the end of this long pier. It was dark, a storm was coming, the wind was howling, the ocean was a washing machine. The light I had to turn on was at the very end of the pier. The last ten feet or so of this pier didn’t have any railing. I was young and stupid, I let go of the railing, took one step and the wind pushed me forward. I was going face first into the raging, dark ocean. Unbeknownst to me, a coworker saw me and ran after me. He had been shouting my name but I didn't hear him over the wind. He held onto the railing with one hand, grabbed my coat with the other and swung me in the air, over the ocean, back onto the pier. Thank you James, wherever you are.
Arenite 3 years ago
So, I’ve always wondered. There are lots of animals/fish/insects that have bright colored coats/scales/whatever. The colors are a warning to other creatures that they taste really bad, are poisonous, etc. Why do divers wear black suits? Shouldn’t they wear bright colors too, to keep other ( large, hungry, curious) fish away from them? Surfers on bright orange boards, divers in suits patterned after the fish the others won’t mess with. Makes sense to me.
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
As an Aussie, I'm just pleasantly surprised to see our country not featured much on this list.
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