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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?

>>5116435
Magnapinna can't kill you, but it will rape you with its tentacles from a mile away. That's the fear OP.

>>5116435
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.

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>>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?

>>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.

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>>5116435
>Deep sea creatures are harmless
only the small ones
the big ones are huge and definitely not harmless
also a phobia is inherently irrational

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>>5116456
it's sad that cephalopods have such short lifespans

>>5116435
Thalassophobia isn't a fear of deep sea creatures, retard. It's a fear of deep bodies of water.

>>5116492
>It's a fear of deep bodies of water
...which is where the sea monsters live

Oh we're doing the reddit root word + word phobia equals clinical phobia.

Agoraphobes break down at the thought of going outside. No one trembles at the thought of tube worms.

>>5116435
>t. colossal squid

>>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"

>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?

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>>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.

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>>5116530
things like this look really creepy at first, but it's barely over an inch long so not exactly threatening.

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>>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.

>>5116435
test

>>5116435
I like the vampire squids

>>5116511
some people do actually have that kind of reaction to deep water

as someone with thalassophobia none of these pictures are scary, you should be posting pictures of giant sea creatures, not fish with pointy teeth

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>>5116521
Here you go

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>they ain't that big so they can't be that bad!

>>5116435
This post was written by a deep one's mind slave's hands. Not today Cthulhu!

>>5116435
Yeah phobias are retarded that's almost as if they were meant to describe an IRRATIONAL fear of something, you dumb nigger.

>>5116597
>of giant sea creatures
Do you mean things like whales, walruses, and and large fish? Or are we talking fictional sea monsters?

>>5116522
>>5116527
>>5116529
>>5116589
All better than your average Brit

>>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.

>>5116531
shits cool as fuck, the only people find arthropods creepy are faggots

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>>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.

>>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.

>>5116922
you just have hydrophobia, did you get bit by a bat or something

>>5116435
local sea monster not so tough after getting mogged by human hand!

All these monsters are small and not threatening.

>>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.

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>>5116435
Thalasophobia isn't a fear of fish. The only retard here is you

>>5116748
it's perfectly comprehensible
do you get scared when you turn the lights off in the the basement too?

>>5116599
Oi Rey

>>5116435
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

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>>5116435
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

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>>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.

>>5116435
>OP doesn’t know what thalassophobia is: the thread

>>5116517
Brother just swim in the open ocean ask yourself whats down there and see if you keep your cool

>>5116612
>>5116995
Cookiecutter sharks are harmless

>>5116435
Whatever you say, anglerfish

>>5116460
We need to breed long lived cephalopods for science.

>>5116435
Based deep sea killer OP

>>5116612
cute

>>5116599
that doesn't look so big

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>>5116435
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.

>>5116460
hello fellow fish, don't you think squids should run this place?

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>>5116435
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

>>5121275
just bring a sperm whale with you to take it out

>>5116522
>He linked the fire

>>5116905
has never ever harmed a human

>>5122712
has never ever left a witness*

>>5122950
people would probably notice if lots of divers went missing without explanation...

>>5116435
people are just irrationally spooked by the appearance of anglerfish, viperfish, dragonfish, etc

>>5121275
>they are surely not gentle giants.
How do you know?

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Do i have thalassophobia? I would never be able to jump into deep water alone.

>>5125711
Thalassophobia is the intense, persistent fear of deep or large bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, and lakes. It is distinct from aquaphobia (a general fear of water) and usually centers around the ocean's vastness, the inability to see the bottom, or the fear of unknown sea life

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>>5116435
>Deep sea creatures are harmless.
>>5116451
Squids were documented to capture and drag divers.
If a Giant Squid wanted to fight a Sperm Whale, which is near peer it's size, it will. That's just food at that point.

>>5126506
They're not remotely peers on the low end a sperm whale weights 80,000 lbs on the high end weights 1000 lbs. That would be like you fighting a ferret or a hedgehog. Volume/length is not so power as a survival strategy when you're not much denser than water.

>>5126506
>Squids were documented to capture and drag divers.
proof?

>>5126506
Giant squids have never been documented harming humans

>>5116522
>>5116527
>>5116529
Lots of animal skeletons look scarier if you don't know what animal it is, eg look up orca skeletons

>>5128605
squid tentacles typed this

>>5129742
squidward tortellini

>>5121761
"The Humboldt squid (also known as the jumbo squid or diablo rojo) is an aggressive, opportunistic carnivore. Its diet primarily consists of small pelagic fish, crustaceans, and other cephalopods, though it is highly cannibalistic and will readily eat smaller members of its own species when food is scarce."

>>5116591
this thing is so fucking cool

phobias are retarded by definition your are illiterate

>>5116522
Rows of cigarette stubs

>>5116522
tobacco really is bad for your teeth

>>5116511
>Agoraphobes
ACKTUALLY, agoraphobia is an intense fear of situations where escape might be difficult or help unavailable if something occurs.
Its not about going outside or a fear of outside spaces.
Imagine you have a health condition where you might urgently need to use the bathroom at any moment, so you'd feel very uncomfortable in a situation where you can't just leave to use the bathroom (being in a car for example). That's an example of actual agoraphobia.

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As a diver the scariest things in the sea are by far water currents and small fish who can leave you crippled. I have never found the deep sea scary by itself and im very fascinated by it but the thought of going down this empty stretch of nothing on a tiny submarine being unsure if it's gonna be reliable or just break up on me suddenly is fucked up. Im aware that realistically there's not gonna be a big leviathan or dead angels down there and it's mostly tiny fish I can hold between my hands so the enviroment and the sea itself is a far scarier prospect than what lurks in it. Im sure anyone who has worked on a ship with hyper hazardous waters can see where im coming from. Fish are all your friends though

>>5131132
Looks like that sand pit thing from start wars. Scarred me for a couple years as a kid in the 80s.

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>>5116435
I thought this was a naked dude raping a deep sea creature based on the thumbnail.

>>5116769
Based as hell

>>5131166
he'd have to contort his right arm in some real unnatural fashion, no?

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>>5125697
Combination of gigantism and nutrients deprived environment. They literally can't calorically afford to not grasp whatever is in their tentacles reach.

Regarding so called "deep sea gigantism" where the fuck did that conclusion came from? Almost all obligate bathypelagic fish are from small to tiny and the only prominent "examples" are the colossal squid, giant squid and "giant" isopod, THREE species under the mesopelagic zone just happened to be gigantic and suddenly we make it a teleonomic trend when there's tens if not hundreds of larger species on the euphotic.

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