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Anonymous04/15/26, 05:45No.5116435Thalassophobia is retarded
Deep sea creatures are harmless. The only aspects of the ocean rational to be afraid of are: drowning/storms, sharks, and venomous jellyfish/conches/whatever, which are all shallow water concerns anyways.
People piss their pants at images of ugly deep sea fish because they're ignorant and don't know they're almost all a foot or less in length; you could crush them with your bare hands. Take the infamous Bigfin squids for example: their body from mantle tip to arms is a foot or so in length. How could one possibly hurt you? Its tentacles are wire thin and its beak is probably less than an inch wide.
The ONLY deep sea creature I could fathom being a rational concern is the Humboldt squid, but even then it has no confirmed kills and you could easily stab it to death with a dive knife if you have no other choice.
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Anon04/15/26, 06:51No.5116439
this reads like one of those
>why the fuq are you scard of the ring girl or grey aliens bro just punt them
postsYeah no shit, we don't think bigfins are actually going to kill divers. Same as we don't think a spooky skeleton with no muscles is going to kill us. But it's still creepy even if we know from a material lense they are harmless.After all, why do you think phobia is in Thalassophobia to begin with?
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Anon04/15/26, 06:55No.5116440
Magnapinna can't kill you, but it will rape you with its tentacles from a mile away. That's the fear OP.
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Anon04/15/26, 07:05No.5116442
Humboldts hunt in packs and each one is the size of a medium dog.
They've found bodies that have been partially eaten by them but couldn't determine if they were killed by them.
To me that counts at least as half.Negligence or nefarious acts committed at sea is probably still going to be 99% what kills people in the ocean.
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Anon04/15/26, 08:15No.5116459
>Deep sea creatures are harmless
only the small ones
the big ones are huge and definitely not harmless
also a phobia is inherently irrational
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Anon04/15/26, 13:30No.5116492
Thalassophobia isn't a fear of deep sea creatures, retard. It's a fear of deep bodies of water.
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Anon04/15/26, 16:18No.5116511
Oh we're doing the reddit root word + word phobia equals clinical phobia.Agoraphobes break down at the thought of going outside. No one trembles at the thought of tube worms.
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Anon04/15/26, 16:33No.5116515
>t. colossal squid
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Anon04/15/26, 16:59No.5116521
>Fresh water sting rays just sit on the bottom of rivers being fat chuds
>Largest sting ray in the world are freshies from Australia
Why can't there be giga huge ray-like animals down in the depths, vacuuming the ocean floor?
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Anon04/15/26, 17:11No.5116522
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Anon04/15/26, 17:38No.5116527
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Anon04/15/26, 17:44No.5116529
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Anon04/15/26, 19:18No.5116536
test
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Anon04/15/26, 19:20No.5116537
I like the vampire squids
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Anon04/15/26, 19:37No.5116543
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Anon04/15/26, 22:34No.5116587
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Anon04/15/26, 22:37No.5116589
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Anon04/15/26, 22:55No.5116591
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Anon04/15/26, 23:29No.5116597
as someone with thalassophobia none of these pictures are scary, you should be posting pictures of giant sea creatures, not fish with pointy teeth
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Anon04/16/26, 00:49No.5116612
>they ain't that big so they can't be that bad!
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Anon04/16/26, 01:25No.5116616
This post was written by a deep one's mind slave's hands. Not today Cthulhu!
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Anon04/16/26, 02:07No.5116627
Yeah phobias are retarded that's almost as if they were meant to describe an IRRATIONAL fear of something, you dumb nigger.
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Anon04/17/26, 13:05No.5116960
local sea monster not so tough after getting mogged by human hand!
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Anon04/17/26, 15:32No.5116992
All these monsters are small and not threatening.
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Anon04/17/26, 16:07No.5116996
Thalasophobia isn't a fear of fish. The only retard here is you
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Anon04/19/26, 09:03No.5117425
never heard people actually being afraid of getting eaten or attacked by these things they are just scary looking because of their weird proportions and alien apperance. there also would neer bee a scenario where you would be able to interact with them face to face because of the water pressure
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Anon04/19/26, 09:36No.5117428
I dive near monterey and tomales bay and I'm always piss scared of encountering a great white. It's why I stay near shore and you'll never catch me near the open ocean. Fucckkk that
I'm not scared of the bigger sharks like the sevengill they might fuck my arm up but I will probably leave alive. They're more interested in fish. Great whites however will bite your arm off just to taste. I have to stop reading these threads or they're going to put me off my hobby
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Anon04/19/26, 10:36No.5117435
>OP doesn’t know what thalassophobia is: the thread
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Anon04/27/26, 04:08No.5119532
Whatever you say, anglerfish
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Anon04/27/26, 07:57No.5119570
Based deep sea killer OP
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Anon05/02/26, 20:15No.5121275
What about the giant and colossal squids? Giant squids are known to be aggressive, even when they are dying in shallow water. We don't know how an healthy individual of these squids would react if you swam next to it but i wouldn't want to try, they are surely not gentle giants.
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Anon05/04/26, 03:07No.5121761
I can see it with Humboldt Squids
Even a single one is 1.8-2m long and can crush diver's chainmail, but they swim in big flocks
You'd feel like a really small morsel among these things
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Anon05/12/26, 00:58No.5124136
people are just irrationally spooked by the appearance of anglerfish, viperfish, dragonfish, etc