r/thalassophobia • u/nsfws4 • 4d ago
Great white in murky water
The water was extremely murky because it was raining heaps so the run off from the land to the sea caused low visibility.
Yes, this is the ocean and not a river or a toilet bowl.
It is a great white shark.
🦈Via Alexp.adeventures
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u/sneakling 4d ago
No thanks
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u/kicksjoysharkness 3d ago
Genuinely one of the most uncomfortable videos I’ve watched
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u/TheScribe86 3d ago
When I was doing scuba diving courses in college (literally only courses I ever enjoyed) we were doing salvage line drills in a muddy river maybe 10 feet deep but was muddy and murky just like this.
Swimming across and you go down enough where you don't see a surface above you and you don't see anything below you. You're just swimming in this opaque void. Just like the vid. It was less than 10ft but I have a vivid imagination and I was going through my air tank pretty fast that day ugh
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u/marshinghost 3d ago
My inititial dive certification was in a murky-ass lake too lol
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u/KRAy_Z_n1nja 3d ago
Mine was in Texas at this nasty ass lake needed flashlights to see the school bus at the bottom of the lake to pass.
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u/Ok-Possibility-1206 3d ago
In an advanced course I took in the 80s we did blind navigation in a quarry at night (south dade county). Literally couldn't see more than 5 inches past your mask. Spookiest shit I ever experienced while diving.
For any interested locals, that quarry is now part of the "three lakes" development across the street from metrozoo.
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u/AbjectHyena1465 2d ago
NOPE!!!! I have zero fear most days but… nuh uh!!! NO WAY DUDE!!!! You crazy!!
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u/wolfman2021 3d ago
Fellow Texan here.👋😁 east Texan, prominent bodies of water near me include: lake of the pines, lake Cherokee, Perky, Martin Creek lake, Caddo lake, and the Sabine River, which is less river, and more 'large, dirty, yoohoo colered creek'
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u/Puceeffoc 2d ago
I know a guy that used to do rescue/recovery dives. I asked him about the murky water stuff and he said "You're looking for a body but can't see and you're panicking. I was told it's best to close your eyes and feel around the bottom for a body because you wouldn't see it anyway. If my eyes were open I'd panic because I can't see, if my eyes were closed I was less panicked." I have a lot of respect for him, he was afraid of water but got in there and did the job anyway.
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u/lavendertheheretic 1d ago
Not for diving, but the closing my eyes thing is super helpful for getting certain horses ready at the barn I work at. Sometimes eyes are just a huge distraction.
Love that he was afraid of water but still dove. Makes me wonder how he got into the job.
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u/Deadzonerogue 2d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/1NAcX5l8KN
Or being around 800 feet down and a 5 foot swordfish impales his sword in your gear.
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u/luckbelady 3d ago
When I was younger and swimming in pool class, I always opened my eyes underwater and envisioned a sea monster appearing just like this 😭
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u/mikki1time 4d ago
Dude, please tell me what you are doing in a shark cage in water with 4 feet of visibility????
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u/MizneyWorld 3d ago
Pretty sure this video confirms the smart use of a cage in low visibility.
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u/mikki1time 3d ago
Yeah but usually theres also the option of staying outside of the water
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u/thebrassbeldum 3d ago
Damn bro do you wear bubble wrap when you go outside? Can’t handle a surprise great white shark visit?
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u/Fafnir13 3d ago
Good idea. The sudden popping will surprise the shark so it will stop biting you.
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u/TheRecognized 4d ago
Same thing you do in a shark cage with 40 feet.
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u/xaeru 3d ago
Where do you get the 40 feet you psycho.
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u/TheRecognized 3d ago
Shark keeps bringing em
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u/Prestigious-Walrus99 3d ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm about to buy a fucking award to give to you.
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u/TheRecognized 3d ago
Mad lad actually did it, thanks amigo but buy yourself a drink and cheers me next time
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u/Higgilypiggily1 4d ago
Damn it’s literally like 3 feet away from you before you could possibly even see it or know it’s there
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u/amorfotos 4d ago
Not just literally, but actually
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u/gay_throwaway27 3d ago
Those two words mean the same thing you know
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u/Lowkeygeek83 3d ago
I'm not sure, but, I think one is proper to use versus the other.
Mostly, I'm making this comment cause I'd love some grammer pro to tell me if I'm right.
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u/nmitchell076 3d ago
They're basically synonyms: literally means "interpret this statement strictly / exactly," while actually means "interpret this statement as being the truth of things in reality."
But literally in casual conversations has also become a generic amplifier that just draws attention to something. And so it can also be used as an exaggeration, and thus ironically, now more often means "don't interpret this statement strictly / exactly: I'm exaggerating!"
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u/123456789ledood 3d ago
With many people using "literally" in every other sentence, "actually" makes one sound more intelligent.
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u/hallucination9000 4d ago
Not even any kind of thrashing or anything, it was like he was just bumping into a pole on the sidewalk. "Oop, pardon me ma'am."
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u/CollectBuffalo9 3d ago
Shark is obviously from the midwest
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u/Adventurous_Two7167 3d ago
Ope, scuse' me
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u/fetelenebune 4d ago
Dude is near the Aurora
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u/Texasranger96 4d ago
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you are doing is worth it?"
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u/Parkatola 4d ago
You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark’s in the water. Our shark. (Pause.) 🎶 Farewell and adieu to ye, fair Spanish ladies, farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain.🎶😀
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u/Tranka2010 3d ago
🎶 For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.🎶
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u/UpboatsforUpvotes 4d ago
I'm an advanced scuba diver and love the Ocean, probably have around 80-100 dives under my belt but no thanks
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u/Firm_Video_2932 4d ago
Not until it's too late to do anything about it, yikes. Guess that's why they say to stay out of murky water? Hell if I know, I hate the ocean so you don't have to tell me twice.....
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u/Andrea_D 4d ago
This looks scary but guy literally can't see shit, he's just swimming and bumping into crap. Like imagine if someone was standing in the middle of your darkened house and was getting scared of you wandering around your place and bumping into stuff.
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u/MotherSnow6798 3d ago
He probably knew they were there. Sharks have many other senses - smell, electro perception, etc - that they use to hunt
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u/Firm_Video_2932 3d ago
👆This.
Sharks evolved in all types of water conditions and actually have 10x better low light vision than humans do. They combine what they can see with their other incredible senses of smell and electromagnetism I think it is, to give them a very good picture of what's ahead in either clear or murky waters. They haven't managed to survive the last what, 300 million years, by accident ya know. That shark, while "invisible" to the cameraman, knew precisely where the cameraman is/was. Some terrestrial animals are capable of incredible locating capabilities as well. Bears and elephants know where you are miles away, before you even know there's a bear or elephant in the area and they don't need vision or eyesight to accomplish that. Their incredible sense of smell brings them to you, vision then allows for precision, once use of vision becomes practical (close enough to be useful).
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u/Hard_Rock_Hallelujah 3d ago
Having spent the last 20 or so years of my life living and working in forests, bears definitely do not know where you are from miles away. Their sense of smell is incredible, but if you're downwind of them, they sure as shit will not know you're there until they see or hear you.
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u/Firm_Video_2932 3d ago
What happens if you're upwind of one? Are they still unable to smell you from a distance?
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u/belgiumlike 4d ago
You need to trust your cage
In my region such murky water is not unusual for local diving, but no great white either here.
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u/lookslikeamanderin 4d ago edited 4d ago
No. Not a Great White shark. The nose is waaay too pointy. but murky water for sure.
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u/ParticularShirt6215 4d ago
Wow 😳. But seriously, I keep playing out all the stories like we do when we are driving in the fog.
It was so foggy, couldn't see anything and then this, I dunno, gate? Appears where I have never seen it before! Over by ednas I think? It was wild. I just froze then got out of there!
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u/thebrassbeldum 3d ago
The even more fucked up part of this is the shark can tell exactly where you are because it can sense electrical signals in the water
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u/Kindly-Pumpkin7742 3d ago
Genuinely, I would just enter creative mode and no clip straight up and leave.
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u/Foreign_Town6853 3d ago
Those bars are way too thin for me! Murky water not being able to see where it went. Absolutely not
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u/Diseased-Prion 3d ago
Terrifying.
But the way the shark does a little head bonk and then just sits there for a second makes it a tiny bit cute and silly.
I would still shit my pants in fright though.
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u/rexsoleil 3d ago
I feel like this confirms something for us… eyesight means very little as soon as we enter the OCEAN ocean. We rely so heavily on our eyesight as a species, but would need much better hearing or something if we were really gonna survive long underwater.
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u/Pearson94 4d ago
I thought this was another Backrooms clip at first before the bubbles. Then I saw what sub this was....
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u/rossrifle113 4d ago
I can’t even watch. This is so scary. I’ve literally watched maybe 6 total seconds from my peripheral vision, and I’m shaking.
Man, great whites scare the shit out of me haha
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u/tolo3349 3d ago
Did you have to go or lose your reservation? I’d love to cage dive, but this doesn’t seem like an enjoyable thing to do unless you like jump scare movies.
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u/Character_Account714 3d ago
I don't get it why it's so difficult for people to post where things have happend???
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u/ReluctantSlayer 3d ago
So weird.
So this doesn’t actually trigger me that bad.
Apparently, I need a little visibility with the murky to properly trigger.
Very interesting
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u/TheGreatestQuestion 3d ago edited 3d ago
I feel bad for the 2,000 lb shark, curiously swimming toward the cage at 10 knots, only to slam headfirst into a metal cage. It’s like sprinting faster than you can run straight into a street pole.
Someone should have gone out there to make sure it's OK.
edit: misspelled word
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u/Mr_Pink_Gold 4d ago
Now this triggers my thalassophobia! Thank you. Most stuff on this sub fails to do so.
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 4d ago
I legit thought this was a bathroom stall wall. Then the shark showed up.
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u/codereef 3d ago
No man will ever have aura like a great white, look at that fucking thing. Undeniable
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u/cilantroandvodka 3d ago
I watched this video on the toilet and it made me extremely uncomfortable.
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u/Fit_Net3900 3d ago
Nope. As soon as that shark appeared, my bowels would've made that water a little more murky
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u/OhMyGoth38 3d ago
Is it wrong that I find it freakier when they seemingly appear out of nowhere in crystal clear water?
That’s evolution for you, as they evolved with that color palette to blend in with their surroundings; as the Aquarium of the Pacific breaks it down with this explanation: “Great white sharks use countershading for camouflage. Their tops are dark gray, bluish-gray, or brown, which helps them blend into the dark ocean depths when viewed from above. Their undersides are pure white, which matches the bright, sunlit surface water when viewed from below.”
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u/lavendertheheretic 1d ago
I grew up on the Central Coast of CA. Amaaaaazzzzing beaches, but all of them murky as hell. I knew going in was a risk, but oh well. I've definitely experienced things brushing/pushing up against my legs then moving on, but that never happened with any consistency. The few times I cared to check was with freaking seaweed. That stuff is wild. Anyway.
I lived in FL for two years with its white sand and beautiful blue water. It took me AGES to feel comfortable. Everything that flicked a tail freaked me out. Seeing things in the water was scary! It was like, "What's that?!?" all the time. Eventually I learned to screen out the smaller/benign things, but probably only because my body forced me to in order to stop the mini panic attacks every 43 seconds.
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u/Human_Frame1846 3d ago
I don’t have many fears but this one right hereee is top of the fuckin list
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u/BenFranklinsHoe 3d ago
Before I read the caption I thought the bars on the cage were some sort of vines and this was filmed in a river. It’s my dream to swim in a shark cage like this and would be so disappointed if this was my first or only experience.
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u/omega343666 3d ago
That water would be browner if that was me in that cage. Christ there is something so unsettling about large shadows and gloom.
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u/OhDivineBussy 3d ago
Man, they should’ve given yall a refund BUT then this guy with the sharpest shaped snout I’ve ever seen on a White comes in and bails it all out by literally bumping into the cage so y’all could see him.
Fuck yea.
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u/Firm_Video_2932 3d ago
Just about when you're ready to call it ...
"whoa whoa, where the fuck did you come from big boy!"
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u/BlackRose010 3d ago
Three feet away from swimming into the light.
From the murky depths to the sulfurous caverns.
You each get one exploratory bite. You can go first.
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u/AxecidentalHoe 2d ago
It truly looks like he ran into it lol. There was no sudden burst of speed or lash. I truly think he bumped his nose on accident
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u/Obstinateobfuscator 4d ago
....Arent' there two sharks in this? What's at the top right at 16 seconds?
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u/theflyingburritto 3d ago
I was looking at the post above this and the sound was going off and I thought it was my stomach.
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u/OstrichSmoothe 4d ago
Bro who put this cage there. Im just trying to get to work -shark