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 thempostsYeah 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?
>>5116435Magnapinna can't kill you, but it will rape you with its tentacles from a mile away. That's the fear OP.
>>5116435Humboldts 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 dogYou're telling me we have had squid dogs the entire time and we HAVEN'T domesticated them yet?
>>5116451They 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>Deep sea creatures are harmlessonly the small onesthe big ones are huge and definitely not harmlessalso a phobia is inherently irrational
>>5116456it's sad that cephalopods have such short lifespans
>>5116435Thalassophobia 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
>>5116492Most 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 AustraliaWhy can't there be giga huge ray-like animals down in the depths, vacuuming the ocean floor?
>>5116521Not 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.
>>5116530things like this look really creepy at first, but it's barely over an inch long so not exactly threatening.
>>5116531>>5116517IMHO 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.
>>5116435test
>>5116435I like the vampire squids
>>5116511some 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
>>5116521Here you go
>they ain't that big so they can't be that bad!
>>5116435This post was written by a deep one's mind slave's hands. Not today Cthulhu!
>>5116435Yeah 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 creaturesDo you mean things like whales, walruses, and and large fish? Or are we talking fictional sea monsters?
>>5116522>>5116527>>5116529>>5116589All better than your average Brit
>>5116690walruses 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.
>>5116531shits cool as fuck, the only people find arthropods creepy are faggots
