I have a fear of sea creatures

[Agenda]

I refuse to go into the ocean below my waist.

I also refuse to go into lakes, unless it's only a sandy bottom that I can stand on. I don't like the feel of squishy seawood under my feat. Who knows what creatures are there lying in wait for me?

Am I alone in this?

 

[Bones2]

I've not got a great fear, but I find the sea quite avoidable anyway. In fact, I think it's been 6 years since I went in the sea. Got stung by a jellyfish too.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only beach I ever find myself near is the one at Coney Island, and I always stick to the boardwalk. (Sadly, despite the song, one cannot walk UNDER the boardwalk anymore. ) But that's just because I don't want to get sand in my shoes and I am never dressed for swimming when I'm out there. If I had a suit handy, I wouldn't mind going in the water.

 

[Shaytan]

Who knows what creatures are there lying in wait for me?

Bad oysters, they deserve their fate !

 

[Colonel Green]

I feel somewhat uncomfortable swimming if I can't see the bottom. Lord knows what could be down there...

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I refuse to go into the ocean below my waist.

I also refuse to go into lakes, unless it's only a sandy bottom that I can stand on. I don't like the feel of squishy seawood under my feat. Who knows what creatures are there lying in wait for me?

Am I alone in this?

Ugh, I'm exactly the same. I can't STAND feeling something swimming past me. I hate feeling seaweed brush up against me.

I'm a swimming pool girl, all the way.

 

[O'Dib]

Swiming in the sea as a kid, I was afraid to venture further than where I could see the bottom. Was afraid of what the dark blotches of sea might hold. I was cured by goggles.

 

[RoJoHen]

I feel somewhat uncomfortable swimming if I can't see the bottom. Lord knows what could be down there...

Yeah, same here, especially because you often can't tell how deep it is either.

Give me a nice chlorinated pool any day.

 

[Agenda]

Who knows what creatures are there lying in wait for me?

Bad oysters, they deserve their fate !

I don't fear them when they're sitting on my plate.

 

[kustirider2]

I'm the same. I will on occasion go into the sea but only if i'm with someone. I really hate the feeling of things brushing past me and i'm terrified of stepping on a sharp rock and hurting myself.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I also refuse to go into lakes, unless it's only a sandy bottom that I can stand on. I don't like the feel of squishy seawood under my feat. Who knows what creatures are there lying in wait for me??

I don't mind the sea creatures. It's the human litter, broken bottles and other unmentionables on the sea floor that I'm more worried about.

 

[JonathonWally]

I'm the same, I go to the Jersey Shore a lot over the summer, but I can't remember the last time I actually went in the water.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090916


Least i could do agrees.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I don't like going in if i cannot see the bottom either. And these days if i HAVE to go in, i wear those water shoes. I can't believe it. I have become my mother.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I don't like going in if i cannot see the bottom either. And these days if i HAVE to go in, i wear those water shoes. I can't believe it. I have become my mother.

Happens to the best of us.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

CD, i've been my father for years. But now apparently i have become my mother too. It's a miracle the husband hasn't left me.

 

[Emher]

I can go in in the ocean, but it needs to be like clear water. Or else I freak out.

 

[Tribbles]

Beyond Antares, you are certainly not alone. I've lived near the Gulf of Mexico my whole life, so I spent every summer and spring swimming in it and local lakes while growing up. It didn't scare me so badly then, but now, this is how my beach trips with my husband go: he runs in and swims about, then coaxes me in after ten minutes of me standing on the shore and peering into the water nervously. I cling to his neck and look around my feet until I finally see a little fish or something, then I whimper and run back out to shore. Then he swims more while I stand there and frown, then the cycle repeats.

I love to swim, but fish touching me? Oh God, no. And don't even get me started on shark attacks. Regardless what is said about the media blowing them out of proportion, it has effectively scared me out of my mind. If I saw a shark in the water, I think I would faint and drown before it even got me.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I know a lot of people feel the same. I don't think much of it: I've been to the seaside for holidays many times over the years, I love the sea and I love swimming. Since the Adriatic sea can quite sandy sometimes, I'm accustomed to not seeing the bottom, and you have to go where you don't touch if you want to escape the crowd. I just put my swimming goggles, my swimfins, and I'm down in the big blue world.

 

[chardman]

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