Deep Sea Divers share the CREEPIEST thing they have seen while in depths (r/AskReddit) updoot reddit

divers and people who spend a lot of time underwater what's the creepiest / most unexplainable thing you've seen while in the depths I'm a commercial diver and was once on a job cleaning a potable water reservoir I'd been in other reservoirs before but this was by far the biggest at forty by eighty meters to get in you had to open a hatch in the ground the whole reservoir was underground and climbed down a ladder the hatch was in a corner so when you were in the far corner of the reservoir it was completely pitch black and you just had to hope your light didn't go out I was about halfway through a 3-hour dive when the batteries in my torch started going flat I watched the beam get narrower and dimmer until it cut out completely it's not a huge problem if you lose light as you can just follow your umbilical back to the hatch just as I started walking back some obnoxiously loud banging started somewhere in the reservoir I was the only diver in there so it both confused and scared the crap out of me needless to say I ran back to the hatch as fast as I could I ended up getting my torch changed out in doing another hour in the water but didn't hear the noise again I still have no idea what it was but the combination of my torch going out and loud banging coming from somewhere gave me a hell of a fright I've done a number of dives and the strangest thing I ever saw was a large deep freezer with a heavy industrial chain wrapped around multiple times with about five cinderblocks attached it was very very rusted in the deep freezer itself had to have been 30-plus years old probably more this was about 90 feet deep just off Vancouver Island Canada the situation gave myself and the other divers the new bejeebies logged the GPS and depth coordinates and notified the police we were able to find out what was inside since one of the divers had friends with local police ten porcelain dolls edit wording and typos I dived myself but heard this story from a Garda diver in 2010 a man took a test drive in a car with the salesman at in a suicide attempt he drove the car off the pier into the sea and drowned the salesman managed to escape my breaking the window and swimming to the surface the divers were dispatched to retrieve the other man's body this isn't in the news report which I have a link to for anyone interested simply through working in marinas at the time I was able to be part of the conversation with a diver in question when he got to the car he said the man was still facing forward hands on the steering wheel eyes Wyatt he'd been there a couple of hours now where it gets creepy is when the diver open the driver door this combined with the smashed window caused the currents to flow through the car and the man's wide eyed head turned around slowly with the force of it to face the diver not unexplainable but gave Lee a bit of a fright I worked as a commercial diver for about seven years in the UK and also some work in Europe I was working in Orkney north of Scotland on the fish farms one time I swam down one of the bigger Nets off frowzy and it was very dark very overgrown and I could see some weird shapes lying in the dead man's sock as I descended there were a few more dead fish than usual maybe a hundred or so but underneath them were lying three dead seals big ones it was hard to make out because they were covered in fish but one of the seals had a big ducking chunk of it missing and that's when I looked up and saw a 4-foot tear in the side of the net duck that I was only a newbie at this point fish farm work is generally the best way to start a diving career doesn't pay the best but you get plenty of minutes logged which helps for experience I told the supervisor who said get out straightaway they sent one of the more experienced lads and after me and he fixed the hull sharpish and then rigged the seals up to be lifted out turns out the seals had been killed by Orca and somehow got through the net in a panic Orca are quite common up in Orkney and are the only animal we were told you had to get out the water for I've seen only one of the seals had a bite mark the other two got caught in the net not supernatural or anything but I remember a significant shiver running down my spine the day when living off the coast somebody's and I would take regular fishing trips out to the oil rigs we would always have some lines out in a few would dive down and try to spear some mangrove snapper or cobia once while I am two others were diving down checking out the structure we decided we needed to move due to lack of life around the rig we all get back in the boat and as one of my buddies is reeling in a line we had a red snapper baited on uneasily eight to ten feet tiger shark starts chewing on it right behind the prop so close I could have poked his eye out the idea that massive animal was in the water so close to me and two of my friends but no one saw it as terrifying I bet he was watching us the whole time the story isn't really mine but from a friend of mine who does night dives here on the Brazilian coast there's a fish that resembles a shark but it's considerably smaller called catch ow you have to hunt these duckers at night because they're sort of nasty in the open but easier to shoot when in their coves so my friend let's call him regis is about one kilometer from the coast diving near a reef this thing is massive and you have to go really deep to get to the slope with the coves he is descending with a partner using cylinders for oxygen and armed with a harpoon gun the kind that shoots the harpoon and is reloadable which is kind of heavy making movement a tad slower it's super dark at the deep during the night and much light will alert the fish they're hunting so they have to use flashlights that are weaker regis said he had a feeling while descending everything was off the smaller fish were absent there were no turtles water was murkier than the usual his partner stays back with the flashlight and he goes closer to the reef regis searches for the coves but can't find any with the cash out he wants so it takes kinda long at a certain point he feels a shift in the water like something big is swimming near him just as the weak light from his partner waves frantically and goes off he doesn't know what to expect and goes on flight or fight mode except he can't ascend too fast he then tries to stay at the same level but he has his back to the reef now then [ __ ] the gun with the harpoon and waits waits and waits but he doesn't see anything in the murky night sea water not even his partners light that had to mean one of two things either his partner went out of batteries or he saw something and didn't want to attract its attention Regus finnaly decides to start ascending very slowly the weird feeling he had got worse and turned into chills as he's going up he feels that same shift again and does not hesitate to harpoon whatever it was but missed he said he never saw something so big underwater and it swam fast as Regis couldn't see much in the dark he couldn't make out a proper shape but saw that the thing went deeper near the reef so he tries to go up as fast as possible and makes out to the boat where his partner helped him up turns out his partner warned him about it with the light because he saw something abnormal a big swimming in a dangerous distance but couldn't get to him because he felt watched by the thing they both call it the blackfish since they couldn't really see what it was it's said to be as big as a man about 1.7 meters Regis lost the harpoon in the end both of them still dive at night it's a no-no for me though also always dive in groups guys if something happens you got to have someone to have your back you never know I got told a story once by a maori language teacher of mine during my time at high school we didn't learn much maori just listened to stories a dam in the Waikato New Zealand had begun to 'visible cracks in the concrete on the outside part of the dam and some drivers were organized to dive down and check the inside submerged part of the dam for damage on that side while they were down there there was the usual debris you would find behind a man-made wall which prevents the water from flowing as it would normally do if there wasn't a dam there turns out what they thought were large logs were in fact huge eels which had gotten to the size of logs due to being prevented from migrating to the sea where they breed and died so from being prevented from doing their natural life duties they just get larger and larger that would be creepy seeing eels deep down in the water just floating around I used to teach canoeing lessons to Boy Scout troops at a local neighborhood lake super small lake that's not very deep but the bottom was hella thick with vegetation the water was dark so you couldn't see her hands in front of you for more than like five inches under the surface there was a small Clubhouse an open pavilion and a playground all on the property when doing lifeguard work in the water during a swim test my sunglasses fell off my head I dove down to find them em crappie nod I found a sunken entangled hospital gurney at the bottom of the lake it took a few people to untangle it but how the eff had got there was beyond me clearly it had been under the water for years when I used to surf I spent a good deal of time underwater whether intentional or not one day I went out and surf that was absolutely massive for me it was ten-foot solid all day bigger sets serious stuff and it was a very dark overcast winter's day and raining you couldn't see crap above the water let alone below at this place the bigger it gets the further out on the rock shelf it breaks so I was at least 200 meters from shore went out of the gloom towered an absolutely massive set enormous as big as I'd ever encountered there were only a handful of other blokes out there the wave was mine at this point I wasn't scared at all no I wanted to get the biggest wave of my life so I tried I got on to it but I just ducked up the position of my feet ever so slightly no chance of pulling out so I tried to go with it and that is when it happened the scariest ducking water based experience I ever had I fell off and this thing just took me to town it lifted me all the way up and over the falls I thought I was okay but no it was just beginning it just kept pushing me down further and further my ears hurt badly it was completely dark cold even in a wetsuit I came to rest on what seemed to be a very large smooth rock I could feel it with my fingers whilst I was pinned firmly to it I was held there for what seemed like an eternity maybe 10 seconds but then I could sense with my feet of ferocious current that seemed to stop at the edge of the rock it was trying to pull me over the legend down I could hear it at this point I was panicking seriously I can't quite remember how I escaped I have rarely been that scared in all my life I made it to the surface I really thought I was going to pass out I can't remember much more but I must have paddled in so ducking fast other people noticed they came to see what was the matter I just sat on the beach I could not even talk I'm getting the ducting heebie-jeebies even reading my own recollection an old world war 2 ammunition ship off his south coast of England was full off brass top shells most had been taken by divers over the years and it was now very rare to see them apart from a pile in one corner of the ship this pile of shiny brass medals was miraculous untouched and remarkably clean after spending years underwater and you only found out why if you swam near then out of the murky darkness the largest Moray I have ever seen snakes forward without exaggeration this thing had a head the same size as a horse's head full of jagged teeth I could not see the body as it looped into the dark and deeper into the ship no one got near those shells turns out for years this thing had been guarding the shiny brass shells slithering over the making them shine we found out at the bar later that he was famous in the area and many people went to the wreck just to see him no idea why this giant creature was guarding them like a dragon at its hoard but some said morays are like Magpies and like shiny things not super creepy at all now but at the time it kinda was on a live aboard in Egypt we were doing a night dive in a big group but with designated bunny pairs in case something was wrong or in case you wondered off or summiting it was a simple enough dive we started from the boat and went straight down there but as we are starting to go down I noticed my buddies struggling to descend so we both surface again and she notices she lost some of her wings when she jumped to the boat she had it secured to her BCD but it was an old rental in the zipper broke or something for some reason the dive guide didn't notice us gone so he went further down with the rest of our group whilst my buddy and I swam back to the boat however my buddy much more experienced than I asked me to stay where I was to kind of map out where the group was we were fairly close to the boat so I was never really alone but still there I was floating alone at sea when it was pitch-black Hal around me while my buddy was on the boat getting some extra hates all of a sudden I was surrounded by hundreds of fish clearly being hunted around by something super not fun when you're alone and can't really see what's going on went on with the dive anyway when my buddy came back and we found the group quickly so no harm no foul however after the dive we were back on the boat and saw a huge group of fish being hunted on by two sharks so there is that I have 150 plus died but can't say I've seen anything all that creepy but I do have a cool dive story to share I was diving the Blue Hole in Belize and we were at max depth which is 120 feet it gets weird at that depth the light level is getting pretty low and it feels oppressive you realize you're away down there are some lemon sharks that swim around the Blue Hole they are curious and like to check out divers but they are harmless they look mean as hell though and can get eight to nine feet easily at 120 feet one of them decided to come check out me and my now ex-wife she was a bit in front of me but when she saw the shark be lining towards us she quickly swam behind me and shoved me towards the shark I was not expecting that and it took a minute to process what happened but I felt bad for her more than anything she was terrified for a few seconds I laughed about it later and said at least I knew where I stood with her she is a good diver but the sight of an 8-foot shark swimming straight at her with a mouthful of teeth triggered her survival instincts I didn't hold it against her smile as I got shoved towards the shark who was at that point only about six feet away from me he calmly turned to the side and glad right past me and then went on to check out some other divers we started our ascent and I didn't see him again it was a very cool experience this isn't my story but my dad's so when he was in grad school he did some field studies classes some of which involved diving in Monterey Bay one day he was diving counting something off of the Santa Cruz Pier and he finds a shopping cart with bricks and cinder blocks and a chain attached to the handle he naturally followed the chain and found a barefoot wrapped in the chain he assumes something probably ate the rest of the body and apparently his friends had seen similar things to also not mine but my dad's friend he says he was on a shelf counting mussels when he felt something tap his tank and he looked around and didn't see anything he figured it was a seal cause they liked to play when he was nudged again he saw it was a great white he says he thought to himself if it gets me against me I can't outswim it now I don't know if he was actually that chill I sure wouldn't be but that's how he tells it my time to shine I was an instructor slash tech XR slash mixed-gas slash overhead slash the whole shebang when I was a young idiot that was pretty much trying to die I can remember diving in a spring system in Florida with manatees and bumping into something on the bottom manatees just normally chill at the top and are literally like big floating sausages so I looked down and saw a massive Gator tail swish off into the less than clear water I have done shark dives in the Bahamas run into Bulls Tigers the whole gambit but that right there terrified me another fun one was I was leading a group off of PC BC on the twin tugs and had a bull shark follow the entire time and no one else even saw it until we came up that was hilarious to see their reactions I actually have a decently good maybe somewhat relatable story about 20 of us including both grooms are going on a co-ed snorkeling trip as part of their bachelor weekend the one groom acts like he isn't afraid of anything even though he will jump when scared so one group goes ahead on their own pontoon boat and our boat comes along next I have intentionally secured with the captain to have our boat go slower I am just shooting the crap with him it was my job to keep him distracted anyways we show up to the site without that groom realizing it they intentionally set him up to swim in a specific direction yeah they had put a mannequin under some rocks it still makes me giggle he freaked the duck out wrote the whole Dateline episode and yes he was a duck target he is also a prankster the best part was he had suspected but he said to me I just never thought you would do that he once borrowed his friends maybe to lie to me and say him and his partner had adopted I was so happy so yeah I felt it was fair when I was a kid we used to go to a place during the summer holiday which had some very nice beaches and in particular an estuary with a very wide river mouth one summer there was a king tide where enough of the water emptied out of the river into the ocean that you could snorkel quite easily from one side of the river mouth to the other as it got so shallow that it was only a meter or so deep at the deepest part one day I decided to snorkel across from one Beach to the one on the other side of the river and about halfway across where the depth to the bottom was maybe half a meter I was swimming along the surface looking down with my mask / snorkel on and a massive stingray passed directly underneath me this thing was easily 2 meters across covered in white scars and missing its tail I just froze in the water and it felt like my heart stopped if I had have let my breath out I would have dropped in the water low enough that I would have landed on it it was so close I wasn't in any danger but having a massive creature appear so unexpectedly so close up was absolutely terrifying rescue / recovery diver here every time I've recovered a drowning victim I get the creeps unfortunately a lot of people are under the impression that every underwater environment is like the movies and there's absolute clarity that's rarely the case one evening I got called out for a young girl that jumped from a bridge she likely survived the Fallen entry we have a morbid term for what happened to her upon hitting the water plug I found her with a surprising amount of visibility in relatively shallow water she was stuck in the mud - just below her knees and you could see the fear locked into her eyes / face there's nothing peaceful about suicide by bridge two biggest my buddy was taking pictures he wanted one of me surrounded by a school of fish so I started tossing out small pieces of hotdog I was immediately surrounded by so many perch I couldn't see out all of a sudden a largemouth bass snagged one of the pieces of hotdog that was maybe six inches from my face my mask blocked his approach scared the crap out of me second one was a night dive in very silty water visibility was less than three feet lowest high mark if I can't see my outstretched arm it is less than three feet we were near a flooded structure maybe an old water tank at about 35 feet something was flashing from our lights suddenly I'm covered in something and I couldn't see my light reflecting back I pull it off my face but it is still black and I can feel it touching the top of my head I try over and over to free myself but I don't feel caught just covered finally I get clear it was a large plastic trash bag keep your trash out of the water please my dad is a diver and once he found a dead person that was deemed missing for quite a while the guy was fishing with the harpoon I'm not a natural English speaker so I can't use the correct term and his harpoon was stuck inside the skull of a huge sea bass he probably died because he didn't measure his breath correctly and the bass didn't die immediately so he actually fought back and became the harpoon was connected in the belt of the guys belt he couldn't escape in time so he drowned point is my dad discovered a half decomposed body of a dead person floating like a horrifying flesh balloon have a nice day I know I'm awfully late to the party but I'll comment anyways this story happened to my mom since she used to dive a lot before I was born she was diving in the cost of Mexico it was night time since the animal they wanted to see only came out at night this meant they couldn't see two feet in front of them the only visible part was the beam of light coming from her torch and her diving partners torch so anyways after diving for a bit she turns 90 degrees to try and locate her partner but as she does this she points the flashlight at a great white shark which was swimming directly to her the thing was only like six feet away from her so my mom couldn't react but her diving partner pointed the light at the shark and made a spiral shape and pointed the light away from them the shark follow the beam of light and swam away from them my mom used to tell me that story all the time and how scared there was it was a while ago but I went scuba diving in Majorca it was on vacation in a resort and I went with the resort's local dive Club quite experienced divers and they were happy that I sort of was - even though we were trained differently they were potty I whiskas anyway the coast was quite rocky and underwater you'd hear a constant chittering sound I'm guessing that those were pebbles moving around when we were about 20 metres away from the beach we went into a small cave / inlet first thing I noticed was a a complete void of colour just gray and varying shades B it was dead quiet no sounds except that of our scuba gear no chattering of the rocks C upturned Sun chair clearly the same model as what the resort had since it was so far away from the resort itself and it was relatively deep inside that cave someone had to place it there themselves no chance it got there with the current I suppose it's nothing special but it was surreal in a completely grey featureless soundless cave I saw upturned Sun chair damn shame I left my camera at home about three years ago my boyfriend and I went on an unguided dive in Egypt we both knew the dive side from previous trips and felt pretty comfortable to go alone it's not a very difficult one and we didn't want to hold up a group in case my boyfriend wanted to take some pictures which can take a while one of the perks of this particular dive side was a single quarrel at 38 metres with a 90% chance to find a longnose hawkfish a really cute guy please google it 10 tents would recommend the normal procedure would be to spend most of your dive at 25 meters make a quick stop at 38 meters to check for the hawk fish and make your way up again this should usually take you only 5 minutes or something however we didn't find him and wasted quite a lot of time looking at this point I was getting kind of sleepy in retrospect this was the first sign that something was going horribly wrong and wanted to finish the dive so I could take a nap on the boat I basically dragged my boyfriend away from the coral and we're about to make our way up again until I noticed something hidden between one of the rocks was the strangest-looking octopus I've ever seen it was bright red you cannot see the color red the deep underwater it's physically impossible and had super weird silvery eyes all in all it looks super funny and we're both laughing at its stupid face my boyfriend makes quite a few pictures until his computer goes ape crap and basically forces us to slowly ascend and make three deco stops along the way that finally snapped us out of it because we did not intend to make a deco stop let alone three we finally reached the surface with only 20 bars left in our oxygen tanks a huge no-go you should always have at least fifty on reserve and are still absolutely blown away by that strange octopus we've never seen something like this before and change our equipment ASAP so we can look at the pictures except when we go through the pictures there's nothing just 20-plus pictures of one single rock no octopus or anything in sight the rock wasn't even a strange color and that's when it dawned on us the depth the time our strange behavior underwater that sounded a lot like nitrogen poisoning you should know the longer you spend at great depths the more like leaner dodging poisoning becomes it's basically an anesthetic that first makes you high on delirious until you pass out and underwater is basically the worst place to pass out ever so here we were at 38 meters giggling at a rock without a care in the world basically tripping on nitrogen with our oxygen running dangerously low I'm pretty sure if it weren't for our computer we would have passed out and died we still can't explain how we both saw exactly the same thing though

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Published: Mon Jul 15 2019