>>128864701I love the ocean. I love oceanography, oceanology, swimming, diving, and I really, REALLY love marine biology. If I could go down into the abyss in a sub, that would be so awesome.
But I'm afraid of swimming in the open sea. The beach is fine, but knowing that I would be miles above solid ground with noting but water to drown in and horrifying and/or maneating creatures below me scares me shitless. When I was little, I was told (improperly) that an undertow was a force that would drag people into the ocean, where they would drown. I didn't like the beach for a while, and now I'm afraid (even though I know it wouldn't happen) that were I in the open ocean, I would get dragged down to the ocean floor by some unknown force.
tl;dr, water's scarey, y'all.