Frightening tsunami with a wall of jet-black water overwhelming the seawall. Japan, March 2011.

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Free divers hanging out on the bottom

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Made my spine crawl just a little

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For all you folks who roll around in your sleep

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Guadalupe Island, the most terrifying place on this planet.

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I took this today while swimming in Egypt. Felt uncomfortably far from home

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Where I live there is a lake created by a meteor which is 115 meters deep. This is a photo our free press released of it. Not a fan

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A diver riding a giant underwater worm (pyrosoma atlanticum)

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Megalohydrothalassophobia - the fear of large things in the water. Does this qualify?

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AI thalassophobia generated by MidJourney, and I don't like it

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brine pools are just the scariest shit

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The Finnish nature photograph of the year by Antti Strang

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uhhhh, there's more than just kelp and angelfish down here, over. (oc)

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“The Big One”

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That this could be appreciated here

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Some dark trippy aquatic art I made called 'Fractal Dagon', inspired by H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Made from thousands of tiny fractals, large zoomable image.

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New horror movie shot mostly underwater that might peak some peoples interests here

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SZA's new album cover

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Orca chasing you

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So vast the turbines are partway below the horizon

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No thank you.

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Found this gem on tumblr

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A ladder in a flooded quarry

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Grand Turks 700 ft drop

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Ocean Skyscrapers. 1-3 times taller than the tallest Land Skyscrapers, but straight down.

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The vastness of the Titanic wreck site

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somehow this is also thalassophobia and claustrophobia. I saw this on tumblr and I used Google image search to find a source and couldn't find anything to credit a source properly.

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I don't feel well about that dark part.

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Reminds me of Spirited Away and not in a good way

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In the deep dark ocean, you can't see what's swimming up beneath you...

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Some dark nautical art I made called 'A Voyage for the Old Ones'. Inspired by H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Made from thousands of tiny interwoven fractals. Large zoomable image.

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The Titanic shortly after the Bow went under

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My local drowning machine: if someone goes in, they’re gone - if you try to save them, you’re gone

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Who knows why people do these things.

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It disappears way too quickly (not oc)

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A gorgeous artwork but it gave me a feeling of dread

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The sea has got her now

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Photo from my brother who’s in the middle of the Gulf working on an oil rig

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Just thinking about this makes my stomach ache.

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It's a nice peaceful day until you get a glimpse of what lies beneath.

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Forty-seven years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald slipped below the waves of Superior on her way to the lakebed at a depth of 530 ft.

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A bryde's whale appears out of nowhere

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The bow of the Samuel B. Roberts the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship. sunk during the battle for Samar in 1944, it was rediscovered in 2022 at a depth 22,000 ft /6705.6 m making it the deepest shipwreck ever discovered.

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This shot was taken off Moalboal on the island of Cebu, Philippines. This guy was free diving with just a mask. I was lucky enough to catch him coming up through a bait ball. shot with a 5DSR 8-15 mm lens set at 10 mm 200th sec @ f8 2 ysd1's

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Orcas in the waves

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Ominous entrance into Lake Ponchartrain (Louisiana)

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Freediving into the unknown..

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When you're swimming and feel seaweed touching your feet..... But actually.....

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Dream place for every person on this sub

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Guys I'm gonna leave this Community today .. I think I made it. I went Diving in the ocean and defeated my fear. I wish good luck to all of you !

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This picture evokes contrasting feelings

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Submarine swim call

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They predicted dense fog where I live. I would NEVER walk the pier i these conditions.

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Redditor explains what “black water diving” is.

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Repairing deep-sea pipelines in my ocean horror game, ABYSSAL

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Hanging on by fingertips

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r/Titanic told me to post here. Illustration of her bow sinking beneath the surface.

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How much faith would you put in these old windows?

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Posted on r/Damnthatsinteresting but thought it fit better here.

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You’re casually strolling through a modern art exhibition when...

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I figured you guys would appreciate or dislike this photo I took with my drone.

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Double the thalassophobia in lake Leitisvatn in Faroe Islands.

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Figurehead of 500-year-old wreck is a sea monster swallowing a screaming man

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So there’s a canyon in Monterey Bay that’s bigger than the Grand Canyon

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Well from 7000 BC preserved by rising sea levels, at Atlit-Yam, cyprus.

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I went swimming in a huge crater and... Well, it turns out I definitely suffer from Thalassophobia.

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Just off the coast of O'ahu

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Suddenly, out of the shadows...

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Ladder to lower cave system, Cascade Caverns

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Horror from the deep

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First fragments of destroyed Titan submarine hauled ashore

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The image that started it all.

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Point Nemo - the point surrounded by the largest unbroken stretch of ocean

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Baltimore Inner Harbor This Week

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Who knows what's down there...

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Seeing the glacier underwater scares the shit out of me

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Storm surge in Narragansett RI this morning. (not OC)

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More nightmare than dream

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Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra

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Why have I spent all morning looking at Blue Hole pictures?

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The deep roots of Tulum (credit ig: josiahwg)

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from the nz navy facebook page

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I was having so much fun I forgot how far from our Airbnb island I wandered

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Going through old pics, thought I would drop this here

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This scene from Dunkirk gives me chills

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A photo op, but the dark water at night is dreadful.

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This creepy dock I was on tonight

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Why have I spent all morning looking at Blue Hole pictures?

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Submarine crew having a swim in the deep ocean.

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This tastes like ship

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Some horror material

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The front of the Titanic

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Terrifying

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Scared of the ocean? Just picture SZA hanging out over it!

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This seaweed through clear water

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I went for a swim (2017)

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Granite quarry is flooded. It is between 120 and 150 feet deep and is packed with discarded machinery, automobiles, and who knows what else.

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An Underwater Observation Tower Rusting Away (Nassau, Bahamas)

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Sunken Ship Hanging Over 6000' Chasm

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The bow of the Titanic, about 2.5 miles below the surface of the North Atlantic in the dark abyss.

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Would you retrieve the broom?

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What lurks below

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Grand Turk 700 foot ocean drop off

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A warning sign for scuba divers deep underwater

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When the terror hunts you even on land. Source: https://t.co/Nik0xcL01t

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Water reservoir near me. The wall is about 10 feet tall, and the water is about 2 inches from the top. Storm was coming in so the water is BLACK.

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I could never

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The first underwater photograph. At a depth of 195 feet in the Mediterranean.

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This Starfish floating looks astral

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Kayaking with the giants!

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A new kelp garden painting I did; hopefully beautifully terrifying for everyone.

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What do you think about eating at this restaurant in Norway? (Credit: under.no)

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Thought you guys might like/hate this picture I captured on my drone

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That's a whale. . . .. .. ..

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“Relaxing” get away I don’t think so

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I tried playing subnautica for ten minutes, most terrifying game I've ever played

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Y'all might appreciate the view from my oil platform cabin (the window hasn't been cleaned since 1985)

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This was probably the most irrational childhood fear that I had

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Sunshine Skyway over Tampa Bay today

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Croatia. No thanks.

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Drone footage of a Whale passing below a boat.

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No no no is indeed correct

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words cannot begin to express how terrifying the thought of an abandoned underwater mine is to me.

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Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse, Falmouth, Massachusetts

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Just thinking about this makes my stomach ache.

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Anybody who wants to take a dip?

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[OC] Surfers over swirling silt and inky depths. Morro Bay, CA (USA)

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The bottom of an iceberg

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Flooded granite quarry. It’s around 120-150 feet deep and filled with old equipment, vehicles, and who knows what else.

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32 of the most bizarre deep-sea creatures discovered so far

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Serbian combat diver

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This massive capsizing ship (MV Princess) is easily obscured under what is barely the very surface of the ocean depths.

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Do you want to get eaten? Because that’s how you get eaten.

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The Danger Unknown, by Me, Acrylic, 24x36. I thought this group might appreciate this one.

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Lone diver beneath Lake Erie, inspecting sensors.

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My wife is a Advanced Scuba diver and she loves to show me photos of her adventures because she knows I hate the ocean.

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Since 50% of the posts here don't fit the rules anyways

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The reef dropped off into this abyssal green nothingness.

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Underwater restaurant, Snøhetta, in Norway

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A temple in Thailand

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“Oil Rocks” (“The Soviet Atlantis”) is an industrial settlement consisting of platforms built on the Caspian Sea, 40 km from the nearest coast of Azerbaijan. The city is home to 2000 people today.

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This defines my fear.

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Swimming in a Murky Lake

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