Scariest or most shocking underwater or beach experience you have had?

[TheChimera]

I have had a few experiences that scared me while in the ocean.
As a child I was carried and tumbled in the waves and was pretty scared. To having a turtle carcass bump against me in the water and I couldn't see what it was at first,along with a seal carcass that I stepped in on the beach, and as an adult almost drowning during high-tide while being smashed against the rocks by violent waves and digging my bloody fingernails into the rock to try and climb out o_o that one was pretty scary, yep. The ocean is so beautiful but so scary at the same time. I guess that's why we love it so much, that savage beauty.

[Azurin Luna]

The one time I was scared was that my dad showed us how dangerous the sea currents can be in the North Sea. My Dad and my bro can both so breastcrawls, but I can't, so I had to try and swim against the current with just the normal way. It was very heavy and I was afraid I couldn't keep up, as it seemed that the current would just push me back as much as I swam forward. Luckily my father saw my struggle and swam back, he then told me to go not to go straight into the current but a little bit side ways. It worked, but I had a long travel along the beach to return to my towel

[BayouMermaid]

While I wasn't in any danger, it definitely shocked me when a remora (one of those sucker fish that attach themselves to sharks and whales) latched on to me while snorkeling. I seriously thought I was being attacked! I kept shooing him away, but he kept coming back. He also latched on to my uncle and my cousin. Would not leave for anything! Goofy fish....

[MerEmma]

I stepped on a stingray in the shallows a few years ago, and I didn't set foot in the ocean for two years afterward. Scariest experience for me, probably aside from being in the middle of sharks feeding with my dad and sister. o_o

[halesloveswhales]

I saw a decaying dolphin once! It was pretty upsetting.

[Mermaid Oshun]

the first time I went to the pool I was about 5 years old. I was SO EXCITED I just jumped right in the deepest water and almost drowned. Once I got in I realized I didn't know what I was doing and started going down and started fighting the water. I have no memory of how I got saved. Ugh! Maybe I died that day and this is my aferlife ?? :pSo I had more respect for the water after that but still loved it. Then a few years later the first time I went to the ocean I just ran into deep water and the waves tossed me back to shore. I remember the burning of salt water up my nose and being thrown around tumbling until I hit sand.

[PearlieMae]

...Then a few years later the first time I went to the ocean I just ran into deep water and the waves tossed me back to shore. I remember the burning of salt water up my nose and being thrown around tumbling until I hit sand.

That was Yemeya telling you it's rude to run straight into the ocean without asking, first!

[Nykur]

Definitely my first encounter with the man o' wars! At the time I was only 6, I was causious of it and tried 'floating' it out to shore with my hands! Soon after I found out of the long tails (tenticals???) those critters have X_x.
I screamed so loud the life guard rushed everyone out the water because he thought I was being attacked by a shark! Lol.
To this day each time I spot one of them I refuse to get in the water, I definitely have a phobia of them... :shame:

[Mermaid Oshun]

That was Yemeya telling you it's rude to run straight into the ocean without asking, first!
:thumbs-up:

[Seatan]

Mine isn't quite as exciting as sea creatures, but I was waterskiing when I was about eight or nine and somehow got jerked out if the water in a way that caused my ski to fly off and hit me in the face. I went down (obviously) and had one of those blurry eyed, everything is moving slowly head trauma moments, face down in the water. Refused to ski for years.

[MerMatt]

Well my scariest moment was at a swimming spot in southern BC. It lies between an upper waterfall and and a lower falls. The area is pretty deep so it allows people to jump off the cliffs. Well I had decided to go with a friend and jumped in right below the upper falls. The idea was to swim the with the current down to the calmer area. Long story short, there is a underwater rock hole nicknamed the birth canal because the it can cause to people to be pulled under due to the way of the current. Well I felt myself being pulled under and with one last burst of energy pulled myself up out the water. My buddy asked if I was okay and my answer was no. He helped swim me over to the side. Following that I never swam the current again. However it taught me my swimming limits. Since then I have gained more confidence under water with learning to swim in a monofin and swimming in a pool instead.

[Anahita]

I was at a beach up north once (I mean a Caspian beach, not a Persian Gulf beach) and I was wading around in the water fully clothed (which is the only way you can really do it in Iran unless the beach is private or female only - though I'm pretty sure some form of clothing restriction is still enforced, but since I don't even bother with those beaches, I'll never know).

I got the lovely notion to go actually swimming, but because the water is so frigid once I dunked my head and chest under, plus the combination of all the layers of clothes, and then the tide and waves, I felt like I was getting sucked down. It was like getting punched in the chest, all my air left me, and then my scarf had floated around and wrapped around my face and tightened on my neck. I think if I had been in deeper water I probably would have just panicked and drowned. Luckily my ass hit the bottom and I had enough sense to stand up, but once I was up, I still thought I was under because of the soaking wet scarf choking me and covering my face and I couldn't get it off because I was panicking. It's like the sea was water-boarding me. Not pleasant at all. Some guy came over and helped me, but then we got reprimanded by some old woman for being "indecently exposed" and "immoral" :shame:as she had said, because his helping me involved pulling off my head scarf and picking me up and carrying me over to the shallower water.

So yeah, I then was terrified that then I was going to be arrested, but I got a towel from someone to use as a scarf and it ended up that the woman wasn't even an authority figure, just an old religious nutcase who had been dragged out of her hole into public by her family, and who seemed to have been completely oblivious to the whole ordeal that led up to me being there, soaking wet and scarf-less and leaning on some poor stranger. Some old man who had come up to help the guy with me told her to shut up because "couldn't you see she was drowning?". Which I was grateful for, because I was so stressed out I had considered spitting on her... Or calling her an ayatollah's hooker.... Some creative insult, or something that likely would have gotten me in more trouble. ;)

Never figured out what happened to that scarf though, but I still have the towel. With my luck the scarf probably went on to kill some poor, critically endangered sturgeon or something. :doh:

[Elle]

I got caught under waves and such when I was little, inhaling a lot of sea water. But swimming at the beach is a big part of life for us so it never put me off.

Also, not actually a swimming incident, hubby and I went on a hike to this unused beach. Found out when we got there it was an unofficial nudist beach, and that was kinda scary - just in a different sort of way

[Spindrift]

I was snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef early morning (right before sunrise) and I swam into a bunch of playful cuttlefish. That was awesome. Then I swam into a bunch of jellyfish. It was weird because I had been snorkeling around the same time the past few days and it was only that day that the water was extra... salp-y.

[MermanZen]

I think the most frightening things that has ever happened to me were

when I was younger I went to sea world and before I knew better I thought being an animal trainer was the most amazing thing ever but one of the trainers were attacked by the whale and rambled him into the tank, there was blood and I could remember the screams of the trainer. But looking back I realized that its one of those things that can happen when your working with whales in captivity and that one experience didn't change my love for the ocean and its creatures.

This one was when I was in middle school I was at coco beach in FL and I was out swimming when I saw a fin immediately I thought shark at the time but it was really a dolphin who wanted to play that was the most terrifying

[Aziara]

I think the most frightening things that has ever happened to me were

when I was younger I went to sea world and before I knew better I thought being an animal trainer was the most amazing thing ever but one of the trainers were attacked by the whale and rambled him into the tank, there was blood and I could remember the screams of the trainer. But looking back I realized that its one of those things that can happen when your working with whales in captivity and that one experience didn't change my love for the ocean and its creatures.

This one was when I was in middle school I was at coco beach in FL and I was out swimming when I saw a fin immediately I thought shark at the time but it was really a dolphin who wanted to play that was the most terrifying
OMG! Was the trainer ok?

[MermanZen]

I think so, but he probity had broken ribs and bruising. I think sea world tried to cover it up and told the public it was the trainer's fault but the whale has had an aggressive past before and they took the risk.

Now what stuns me is no one has ever been attacked by orcas in the wild as records show, but it seems to happen with only whales in captivity, not to scare any Mers from connection with these animals but it can happen

[MermanZen]

OMG Seavanna that's just as scary especially for a nine year old

[AniaR]

A wolf fish bit my leg and because the water was so cold I didn't know til I started walking out with it still attached. When I got it off it looked like a vampire bit my leg

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[MermanZen]

Wow!!! AniaR that's scary