Oh if only! However you're on the exact antipode from where I live. Shark attacks are rare up in my part of the world but we do have some enormous great whites in the waters. And it's not just sharks, it's what else could be down there. Sharp objects or shellfish, eels, lampreys, jellyfish, pike, barracuda, even dead bodies. Don't laugh. A friend of my sister's was swimming in a local lake when she felt a hand on her thigh only to discover it was the body of a girl missing from a boating party for two weeks prior.
Yup, it's all there. Some rivers around here are so polluted I wouldn't dare enter them, but... I like nature, so I enter her rivers if I get the green light. There's tonnes of bodies, not so many human but others... they just aren't as recognisable after more thoroughly decomposing, as their cells intermingle with the water itself
I don't think my fear is unreasonable. There IS shit down there! Really scary nasty shit and I have no desire to discover it. No stupid fence is going to keep out The Bloop! I can snorkle in clear water just fine, doesn't bother me a bit. So long as I can see what's under and around me, I'm cool.
No more unreasonable than any of my fears.
I know it could be there too, I know it could panic/hurt/kill me at any time, but I just listen to some Eye of the Tiger and it's all good
I've been diving too, sometimes with only a foot or two of visibility,... worst one was when the air tank seals busted at depth, both regs dropped out, and my buddy was trapped. Couldn't ascend without some serious health risks... nearly dislocated my arm as I clamped my hand around the seal but air kept on pouring out... no air, just held my breath and went to find my diving buddy...
Coulda died, but survived another day instead.
The bloop probably wouldn't hit shores... too vulnerable to the real monsters (humans). And apart from the few that are incapable of feeling fear, we all got fears. Without fear we can't prove ourselves courageous.
I will do that sometimes. It used to really bother me that people could hear me urinating but now I'm much, much, better after convincing myself that:
A. I don't have to explain to anyone what I'm doing in a men's room stall.
and
B. It's weirder if you don't make any noise. If you're going to piss make a loud noise because that's what guys with big dicks do and I don't want people determining how small I am by pissing weakly. Irrational perhaps, but it helps my irrational fear.
Haha yeah, it's not always used for number 2s, and if you aren't doing anything in there they might get other ideas
