By
Updated 11 months ago,May 24, 2024
1.
Just a huge whirling cloud of death, full of barnacles and dolphin skeletons and decomposing fish.
When diving, a huge seiner net drifting towards you.
It wasnt anchored or attached to anything.
Just a huge whirling cloud of death, full of barnacles and dolphin skeletons and decomposing fish.
HAL-42b
2.
I have family who sailed around the world.
One day in the North Atlantic, their sailboat was going over some GIGANTIC swells.
Atlasnew
3.
It was a foggy night off the shore of Long Island and I was on a 75-foot schooner.
The fog was so thick that you couldnt see more than 10 feet in front of you.
About that time there is a thunk on the side of the ship.
The robes were scratching down the outside of the ship.
Jonhuddleston
4.
The monstrous jellyfish that would come floating by silently out of nowhere scared the absolute shit out of me.
Lived on a sailboat in Malaysia for a while.
The monstrous jellyfish that would come floating by silently out of nowhere scared the absolute shit out of me.
Easily half a meter in diameter, and hundreds of them.
Name Withheld
5.
So its a dangerous game you’re able to only play for so long.
Or more often than youd think, just disappear.
Anyway, Hes diving off a shelf face at about 90m and its completely black.
He said you would just pull yourself along the face grabbing abalone by feel.
Which, by the time you realise, youre dead.
Hes never told anyone except me and one of his brothers, and Id never dare tell mum.
The_Seed_In_Tweed
6.
When they first touched the body with a stick, there were eels coming out of his mouth.
The eels had just begun to eat his organs.
My uncle was a captain and he brings freight to other countries.
One day inEgyptthere was a body floating in a harbor, and the police was getting it out.
When they first touched the body with a stick, there were eels coming out of his mouth.
The eels had just begun to eat his organs.
Niellz
7.
It was a wall of barracuda, from floor to ceiling.
We were totally surrounded.
When I was 12 years old my father and I were on a trip near Key West.
Theyre fairly rare, shy creatures, and I was fascinated with them as a kid.
Theyre mostly nocturnal predators, so there was a chance Id get to see one on this dive.
Turns out theyre not the only nocturnal predators.
We spot one out in the open, and a group of us shined our flashlights on it.
It was completely translucent, floating through the water with its tentacles flowing behind it like a cape.
It was a big one, too.
We spent maybe five minutes following it, and I was awe-struck.
I was so transfixed on the creature that I hadnt kept track of what was going on around me.
I felt a tap on my shoulder, and looked up to see my father.
He pointed all around us.
I shined my flashlight up, and it illuminated a solid wall of flashing scales.
The light went up and up, all the way to the surface.
So did the scales.
It was a wall of barracuda, from floor to ceiling.
We were totally surrounded.
They hunt at night, and a school of them were passing over our group.
Fortunately they have extremely poor eye-sight, and were just checking us out.
They dont find humans appealing for the most part.
4chan_Is_Way_Better
8.
A twenty-foot tentacle came up out of the water and hit the side of the craft.
Once, twice, three times.
A tentacle came up out of the water and hit the side of the craft.
Once, twice, three times.
Biggest fucking tentacle Id ever seen in my life, at least 20 long.
Just THWACK THWACK THWACK and then it was gone.
No time to react or do anything, just me on the deck thinking what the fuck?
A mixture of terror and disbelief that just boggled me into paralysis.
Even as a fish story no one would pretend to buy it.
So what was it?
I dunno, maybe a giant squid that got pissed at me for some reason?
Dont know, dont care to know so long as it never happens again.
sail_away_with_me_
9.
The eerie and truly creepy part was realizing what it was.
Chambers1994
10.
Suddenly you see massive pillars of fire rising from the ocean all around you.
you’ve got the option to hardly see a couple feet in front of your face.
360 degrees of thick fog.
you might hardly see a couple feet in front of your face.
cluelessknowitall
13.
This huge turtle as big as a Volkswagen Beetle.
This huge turtle as big as a Volkswagen Beetle.
It went right under our boat.
scudponies
14.
Losing your ships service generator in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, late at night.
Losing your ships service generator in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, late at night.
Most of the electrical service to the ship is lost until the Emergency Diesel Generatorhopefullystarts up.
When youre used to all the vibrations and sounds in your living spaces, silence is deafening.
sriracha_blowjobs
15.
A human torso in a fishing net.
After that he got angry and told him to throw it back.
YaBoyZoidberg
16.
A 17-foot Great White shark.
Aus_
17.
Upon this raft was not a soul.
The sea is avastand seemingly empty place.
I found myself, on my ship, somewhere in the vast expanses of the South Pacific Ocean.
Upon this raft was not a soul.
The chances of coming across a raft to begin with are small enough in that part of the ocean.
Trev0matic
18.
A glowing toilet bowl.
One night I was taking the watch on a long haul sail up the US east coast.
We were rounding the FL keys about to point towards Maine.
I had to use the head, so I went below and pumped some water into the bowl.
It was glowing in the dark.
Freaked me out so much.
Turns out there is bioluminescent phytoplankton in the water which will glow of pumped into a dark toilet bowl.
No longer scary, actually pretty neat.
thewaybricksdont
19.
Up floats a dead body right next to the ship.
On 9/11 2013 I was on a ship in the Red Sea.
Never did hear anything more about it.
Pretty damn weird if you ask me, though.
Fnwayshegoes
20.
I was working on a car carrier four years ago in the Middle East.
So we stopped and had to drift for a bit to figure out what the problem was.
During this time I was working on the stern (back end) of the vessel.
I couldnt really see anything out in the ocean, everything was dimly lit on the ship.
I just stared back at him, kind of stunned.
Then he slowly rowed his boat back off into the deep pitch-black night.
I didnt know how many others there were.
But I did call it in on the radio as soon as I lost sight of him.
I still remember his face today, that deep stern concentrated look.
DannyCavalerie
21.
There was this beautiful woman floating in a raft unconscious.
He and my cousin pulled her aboard and she began to regain consciousness and she was really drunk.
Banana_Man15
22.
You could clearly see the marks of three large teeth.
I was sailing a small Sunfish around an island near Florida in shallow water.
Immediately afterward my boat rammed into something under the surface and came to a complete stop.
Then there was another big splash and I saw something zoom away, leaving a wake behind it.
I was left freaked out and shaking.
Then I thought to myself, I must have hit a big dolphin.
Maybe it was a manatee?
Lots of dolphins around here…
So, I finished my sail and went home.
When I got to the beach I pulled up the centerboard and found a real surprise!
A two-inch chunk had been bitten out of the wood.
You could clearly see the marks of three large teeth.
Im very happy that I didnt fall out of the boat that day.
Mange-Tout
23.
On a small fishing boat your bed is below water line.
you’ve got the option to hear whales yabbering.
A real creepy sound (there are a few out there) is whales.
On a small fishing boat your bed is below water line.
you could hear whales yabbering.
It isnt quite as relaxing as a whale song CD.
Freakiest was when we had to run for shelter behind a rock.
acideath
24.
I watched a whale die.
When I was off the coast of Japan in 2007, I watched a whale die.
Do whales have funerals?
Because it felt like a vigil or saying goodbye.
You could hear the faint puffs of the blowhole spraying out water in a labored way.
I dont know if it was hurt or just old.
These other whales made a few passes and then they left, and the whale wasnt spouting air anymore.
This was all in a 15-minute period as we cruised past.
Surrounded by twenty humpback whales.
I was with a much older experienced sailor who was teaching me.
About a mile out, we saw a whale, then five, then twenty.
They were all around us, and singing the song of the humpback people.
We were both terrified, as a whale can and will flip a 30-foot boat like a potato chip.
They stayed with us, front-sideback-and below, for about an hour.
The singing was super eerie,check it out.
I was never so happy to get back on dry land.
Of course, we went back out the next day.
