A teenaged boy and girl are sitting on surfboards,
gently bobbing up and down in the calm ocean water. This surfing trip didn’t turn out nearly
as exciting as they had hoped it would, so with no waves in sight and the pair growing
bored, they decide to head back to shore. Just as they’re about to start paddling
back though, the girl gives one last look and spots the water swelling in the distance. She calls out for her friend to stop, it’s
just what they’ve been waiting for. Waves are coming in, and big ones too. They can see that they’re going to break
at the perfect time, maybe this trip will turn out to be a good one after all. The boy tells the girl that she can have the
first one and she starts paddling to catch it. She pops up on her board just as the wave
breaks, riding it expertly towards the shore as the boy does the same on his own behind
her. They have a great time, riding wave after
wave, each one coming in bigger and stronger than the last. The girl starts to worry though that they
might be getting too big and fast. As the girl finishes surfing another perfect
wave she looks back at the boy just in time to see him wipe out on an especially tall
one. He and his board are pulled beneath the water
and both disappear under the breaking wave. She hops off her own board and stands in the
waist deep water watching for her friend to emerge, but he doesn’t. She scans the horizon and calls out for him,
but there’s no sign of her friend. She’s getting worried, he should have surfaced
by now. She doesn’t see any sign of him or his board… What’s going on? “Boo!” The girl jumps with fright and turns around. The boy is standing behind her. But how did he get there? He tells her that the last wave was a crazy
one that must have pulled him and his board under the water towards her. He’s never experienced anything quite like
it, but he’s fine now, there is nothing to worry about. The girl, still trying to catch her breath
from the fright gives him a playful punch on the arm and recommends that they call it
a day. The waves are getting stronger and if he was
pulled under once, then who knows what would happen if one of them wiped out on an even
bigger one. Besides, the boy looks like he might have
hurt himself and the girl points at the small cut on his arm that’s starting to bleed. The boy tells her that it’s only a scratch,
and insists on catching one more wave before they head home. He doesn’t want to miss this opportunity
to ride these great waves when they have the whole ocean to themselves. He tells her that she can head back if she
wants, but he’s going out one more time. The boy starts to paddle back out and the
girl reluctantly follows him. As they wait to catch a wave she tells him
that this time he can go first. She’s not going to let him scare her again. The boy promises, no more surprises, and goes
to catch another wave. The waves are coming faster now and she’s
able to get on one right behind him. As she surfs towards the shore, she keeps
one eye on the boy. These waves are tough and she needs to focus,
but her attention is drawn towards her friend. She sees something forming on his wave. It looks like the water itself is growing
out of the crest of the wave and reaching towards the boy. It looks like… the jaws of a shark! The girl screams and the boy looks back, straight
into the gnashing teeth of the shark reaching out of the waves. The boy yells in fear and falls, tumbling
into the water just underneath the mouth as its jaws snap shut on his board right where
he was standing, splintering it into pieces. The girl can’t believe what she’s seeing
and stumbles on her board. She catches herself but looks behind her just
in time to see the same jaws coming out of the wave towards her. The boy emerges out of the water carrying
his friend onto the nearly empty beach. He lays her down in the sand, screaming for
help as a few beachgoers start running towards them. No one has any idea what they could possibly
do to assist though, both of the girl’s legs have been bitten off at the thigh, and
it’s clear she was dead long before he carried her onto the beach. … Bonjour! Today’s file comes from our friends at the
French branch of the SCP Foundation. A frightening and dangerous aquatic anomaly
that has been designated SCP-054-FR, but is appropriately also known as… Blue Fear. SCP-054-FR is an oceanic phenomenon that has
been observed occurring in several different regions spread across the world. In these areas, of which at leave five have
been identified, certain waves will display extremely dangerous anomalous activity. The waves themselves will seem to physically
transform, taking on a shape that resembles the mouth and jaws of a Carcharodon carcharias,
a species of shark better known to most as the Great White. The giant shark mouth, which is full of row
upon row of razor sharp teeth, will often go unnoticed until it is too late for the
unfortunate victim, with the roar of the powerful wave itself covering up much of the sound
of the gnashing jaws as it attempts to bite the targeted individual. The SCP-054-FR phenomenon will only appear
on waves in these areas that are at least four meters in height, but a maximum height
on which the jaws will manifest has yet to be identified. Waves carrying the anomalous effect are changed
in other ways too. Not only does a terrifying set of carnivorous
jaws appear out of the water, but the wave will move faster as well, with SCP-054-FR
waves having been measured at rolling three times the speed of normal, non-affected waves. The frequency of just how often SCP-054-FR
will affect waves is not well understood, but what is known, is that waves will speed
up when a human or non-aquatic animal is in the water between a wave instance and the
coast. The frequency of 054-FR waves will increase
dramatically as well when individuals in the area are at least 250 meters from the coast,
and SCP-054-FR does not care which aquatic activities you’re engaging in when it spots
you that far from shore. There have been documented cases involving
casual swimmers, snorkelers, and divers, but surfers are, for some unknown reason, far
and away the most likely victims. Observations have shown that non-aquatic animals
are also at risk of triggering the effect, such as in the case of several seabirds that
were seen floating on the water just before an SCP-054-FR wave crashed down on them and
the birds vanished, leaving only blood and feathers floating on the surface where they
once were. Even some aquatic vehicles like jet skis and
small boats have been observed being attacked by the anomalous shark jaws, though it seems
to avoid going after larger vessels. If more than one person is present in the
area that SCP-054-FR is manifesting though, then additional instances of the jaws are
able to form, either on the same wave or on multiple different ones in the area. The injuries caused by SCP-054-FR are very
similar to those of a normal, non-anomalous Great White Shark, and the force of the jaws
appears to be proportional to the size of the wave itself, with larger waves being more
powerful than smaller ones. Victims of 054-FR attacks have had entire
limbs ripped off, others were torn completely in half, while some simply disappeared beneath
the wave as it crashed down on top of them and the jaws snapped shut. The only way to avoid being bitten or swallowed
whole is to dive down under the wave before it impacts, but the opportunity to do so is
quite rare given the wave’s ability to “sneak up” on its victims, and the injuries that
are nearly always sustained from an appearance of SCP-054-FR are fatal in 68% of recorded
cases. The SCP Foundation first became aware of SCP-054-FR
following multiple reports of shark attacks caused by Great White’s emerging out of
the waves to attack humans before vanishing back into the water, and the Foundation soon
began a series of experiments to try and better understand the anomaly. The first test performed by Foundation researchers
was quite straightforward and involved dumping large quantities of animal blood into the
water in an area where SCP-054-FR was reported to have been attacking people. Just like with a normal shark, the blood seemed
to act as a trigger for the anomaly, causing it to manifest in less than two minutes and
the researchers watched as the shark jaws tried to bite at the blood as the wave rolled
over it. The test was repeated but this time human
blood was used instead. This also caused instances of SCP-054-FR to
appear on the waves, though now they manifested much faster, often showing up less than one
minute after the blood was dumped into the water. It seems that SCP-054-FR has a strong preference
for humans or at least their blood, and only a small amount is all that is needed to cause
the shark jaws to quickly appear. Tests involving D-Class personnel have shown
that wounded individuals are four times as likely to trigger a manifestation as an uninjured
individual, but that there are also ways to limit how often the carnivorous waves will
appear. It seems that lying motionless on the water
will significantly reduce how often SCP-054-FR will spawn, and slow body movements will decrease
the likelihood of an appearance as well. Strangely while blood will make the jaws manifest
quickly, it is unlikely that it is because SCP-054-FR can “smell” it, since tests
that have tried to disguise the smell of both the blood and the human test subjects have
all met with failure. So far, all attempts at damaging the anomaly
have also been unsuccessful. Bullets fired at the shark jaws pass harmly
through it, disappearing into the wave as if they were shooting at perfectly normal
water. Given its nature, it seems unlikely that the
Foundation will find a way to capture and contain SCP-054-FR, so for the time being
all containment efforts have been directed towards keeping humans away from it. A one kilometer exclusion zone has been established
around the five geographic areas where manifestations have been reported and civilians are completely
forbidden to access the areas under the guise of there being on-going research into marine
mammal life that would be disrupted by the presence of any humans. Secrecy is of the utmost importance when it
comes to SCP-054-FR in order to keep the curious away for their own safety, so any photographic
evidence of the anomaly is confiscated and destroyed, and witnesses of an SCP-054-FR
attack are given amnestics in order to remove the memory of any anomalous shark attacks
from their minds. The Foundation also engages in an extensive
misinformation campaign to debunk any evidence of the anomaly, spreading the idea that any
reports of a shark mouth forming on waves are simply hoaxes or misunderstanding of wave
dynamics, while attacks are blamed on normal, non-anomalous Great White Sharks. It is unknown if the five areas the Foundation
has contained make up the entirety of the locations where SCP-054-FR can manifest, but
Foundation agents continue to monitor reports of shark attacks around the world, and hopefully
they will find that they were the result of the regular oceanic super predator, and not
the kind that can manifest behind you when you least expect it. Now go and watch another entry from the files
of Dr. Bob, like SCP-2846 The Squid and the Sailor, for another anomaly that will make
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