Deep sea creatures are harmless. The only aspects of the ocean rational to be afraid of are: drowning/storms, sharks, and venomous jellyfish/conches/whatever, which are all shallow water concerns anyways. People piss their pants at images of ugly deep sea fish because they're ignorant and don't know they're almost all a foot or less in length; you could crush them with your bare hands. Take the infamous Bigfin squids for example: their body from mantle tip to arms is a foot or so in length. How could one possibly hurt you? Its tentacles are wire thin and its beak is probably less than an inch wide. The ONLY deep sea creature I could fathom being a rational concern is the Humboldt squid, but even then it has no confirmed kills and you could easily stab it to death with a dive knife if you have no other choice.
this reads like one of those >why the fuq are you scard of the ring girl or grey aliens bro just punt them posts
Yeah no shit, we don't think bigfins are actually going to kill divers. Same as we don't think a spooky skeleton with no muscles is going to kill us. But it's still creepy even if we know from a material lense they are harmless.
After all, why do you think phobia is in Thalassophobia to begin with?
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Anonymous04/15/26(Wed)06:55:32
>>5116435(OP) Magnapinna can't kill you, but it will rape you with its tentacles from a mile away. That's the fear OP.
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Anonymous04/15/26(Wed)07:05:28
>>5116435(OP) Humboldts hunt in packs and each one is the size of a medium dog. They've found bodies that have been partially eaten by them but couldn't determine if they were killed by them. To me that counts at least as half.
Negligence or nefarious acts committed at sea is probably still going to be 99% what kills people in the ocean.
>>5116442 >Humboldts hunt in packs and each one is the size of a medium dog You're telling me we have had squid dogs the entire time and we HAVEN'T domesticated them yet?
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Anonymous04/15/26(Wed)07:55:36
>>5116451 They only live a year or two. The moment they show weakness they probably get cannibalized. Probably don't have enough time to even train them the upside is you have so many generations of them you probably could get to a not aggressive variety in less time.
>>5116435(OP) >Deep sea creatures are harmless only the small ones the big ones are huge and definitely not harmless also a phobia is inherently irrational
>>5116492 Most self proclaimed thalassophobes justify it either with photos of spooky looking fish or "ooooOOOooOoo we've only explored x% of the ocean oooOoo imagine what could be down there"
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Anonymous04/15/26(Wed)16:59:34
>Fresh water sting rays just sit on the bottom of rivers being fat chuds >Largest sting ray in the world are freshies from Australia Why can't there be giga huge ray-like animals down in the depths, vacuuming the ocean floor?
>>5116521 Not enough food down there. It's true that we've only explored a small % of the depths, but we do some basic facts. There's just no food source which could sustain some massive beast of the depths. There's plenty of creepy stuff down there, it's just small.
>>5116531 >>5116517 IMHO the "unknown" angle is the real scary part. Not just "who knows what could be down there", but also just simply "I have no idea where the threat is located". Huge beasts like dinosaurs or dragons are scary because they are destructive, but they're also easy to spot and therefore possible to avoid. But in the ocean something could easily come up behind you or beneath you.
As an example, imagine you're forced to cross some big outdoor space with a T-Rex in it. Compare that with having to negotiate a cluttered room which may contain one or more highly venomous snakes. They're both scary, but for totally different reasons.
>>5116690 walruses aren't scary, big fish aren't really scary except for maybe the biggest basking sharks and whale sharks. Stuff big enough to easily swallow you whole is scary. big whales are scary, with their alien vastness. The incomprehensible deepness and overwhelming size of the ocean is scary, and whales embody that. Fictional sea monsters are also scary.
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Anonymous04/16/26(Thu)19:06:39
>>5116531 shits cool as fuck, the only people find arthropods creepy are faggots
>>5116748 I find whale sharks cute but these are kind of horrifying. I assume they are harmless but seeing that gaping maw headed towards me out of the blue would make me shit a brick.
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Anonymous04/17/26(Fri)09:42:09
>>5116517 Yeah, actual thallasaphobia is being on the second story of a large building a half mile away from the shore, looking towards the ocean, and having a panic attack because there's so much fucking water and it looks like it's towering above you. Floating docks? Absolutely not. Piers? Forget about it. Getting on a boat? You can go fuck yourself. An olympic sized swimming pool? Hard pass. I don't even like crossing bridges over small rivers. It fucking sucks and it has gotten worse as I've gotten older.
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Anonymous04/17/26(Fri)11:25:14
>>5116922 you just have hydrophobia, did you get bit by a bat or something
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Anonymous04/17/26(Fri)13:05:26
>>5116435(OP) local sea monster not so tough after getting mogged by human hand!
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Anonymous04/17/26(Fri)15:32:51
All these monsters are small and not threatening.
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Anonymous04/17/26(Fri)16:01:32
>>5116612 >The name "cookiecutter shark" refers to its feeding method of gouging round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, and on submarines, undersea cables, and human bodies. >This species has been known to travel in schools.
>>5116435(OP) never heard people actually being afraid of getting eaten or attacked by these things they are just scary looking because of their weird proportions and alien apperance. there also would neer bee a scenario where you would be able to interact with them face to face because of the water pressure
>>5116435(OP) I dive near monterey and tomales bay and I'm always piss scared of encountering a great white. It's why I stay near shore and you'll never catch me near the open ocean. Fucckkk that I'm not scared of the bigger sharks like the sevengill they might fuck my arm up but I will probably leave alive. They're more interested in fish. Great whites however will bite your arm off just to taste. I have to stop reading these threads or they're going to put me off my hobby
>>5116995 Pretty much all deep diving mammals are recorded having cookiecutter scars. It's like a guaranteed layer of freak piranhas live below us, ready to bake whatever's dropping.
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Anonymous04/19/26(Sun)10:36:39
>>5116435(OP) >OP doesn’t know what thalassophobia is: the thread
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Anonymous04/19/26(Sun)10:53:21
>>5116517 Brother just swim in the open ocean ask yourself whats down there and see if you keep your cool
>>5116435(OP) What about the giant and colossal squids? Giant squids are known to be aggressive, even when they are dying in shallow water. We don't know how an healthy individual of these squids would react if you swam next to it but i wouldn't want to try, they are surely not gentle giants.
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Anonymous05/03/26(Sun)13:29:51
>>5116460 hello fellow fish, don't you think squids should run this place?
>>5116435(OP) I can see it with Humboldt Squids Even a single one is 1.8-2m long and can crush diver's chainmail, but they swim in big flocks You'd feel like a really small morsel among these things
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Anonymous05/06/26(Wed)16:13:16
>>5121275 just bring a sperm whale with you to take it out