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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?