What's the creepiest thing you've seen at sea? (28 photos)

The pitch darkness of the sea depths conceals many secrets. Whether it's a bizarre creation of nature or a man-made treasure lost hundreds of years ago, all this, as a rule, fascinates as much as it frightens. Sailors and all water lovers shared their frightening memories in the Ask Reddit community.





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“I served in the US Navy for about 10 years and have tens of thousands of miles at sea on an aircraft carrier.

The scariest thing: a huge glowing section of the ocean. I've seen several types of bioluminescent algae, but this was like nothing else. I've never seen anything like it.

The strangest thing: hundreds of miles from land there is a huge fire on the water. It looked like the top of a gas processing plant, but on water, and underneath there was nothing but water. The flames rose several stories into the air.

The saddest thing: a friend tried to jump overboard. Apparently, he received a letter from his cheating wife and decided to end it. We were on the deck, he smoked a cigarette, then asked the time, we said 23:00... He replied that it was time to die and tried to jump over the chest-high wall. Fortunately, we were faster. They grabbed him and threw him down. Shortly thereafter he was transferred from the ship. I don't know what happened to him, but I hope he feels better.

The funny thing is: two flying fish collided in the air. We were in the Persian Gulf, I was smoking and saw fish flying from quite a distance towards each other. I remember thinking: “It’s impossible that they will collide.” I was in tears from laughing. Everyone thought I was an eccentric, but I saw a miracle of nature."

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"In the dead of night, when I went out for a smoke, I happened to look down at the rescue boat and saw that in the moonlight its shadow looked different. I used the flashlight on my phone and scared myself to death. The ship with the giant squid wrapped around it was about 15 m long, and his tentacles took up 2/3. After a few seconds, he unhooked and fell back into the ocean. I still remember his eyeball the size of a football, which was looking right at me. I still get goosebumps "According to the most conservative estimates, the length of the creature was more than 10 m."

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"I used to work as an oil field diver in the Gulf of Mexico. About 80% of the dives were at night, mostly to depths of more than 150 m. It's an eerie feeling when you decompress in the middle of the night. I always asked to turn off my headlamp. Like a worm on hook."

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"Bioluminescent animals are amazing. Our toilet filled with seawater and sometimes it glowed at night."

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"An empty boat is far out to sea."

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"A friend of mine works on a ship. He said the worst thing he saw was a wave 100 meters high that passed their ship and suddenly disappeared."

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"The most terrible memory was when I and the other crew members were losing our minds. During one terrible voyage, everything went wrong and we found ourselves without food, water and sleep. First there were auditory hallucinations. Ships are noisy, and when you go crazy, you begin to think that these sounds are talking to you. I heard the laughter of children, the singing of a choir and some kind of splash that seemed to be calling my name from the sea. If you combine this with visual hallucinations, it becomes truly scary. In a way... at that moment it seemed to me that we were in the desert, there was sand around us, and mountains in the distance. Another crew member got scared and said that we were about to collide with a residential building. What scared me most was a black flying pig with red eyes. Who- then decided that we had lost part of the crew overboard. A crazy argument began, although we were all there. It was a painful voyage due to the incompetence of the captain."

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"Body parts in the water intake hole."

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"The corpse. It was in the tropics, which had a bad effect on the remains. There were enough teeth left to identify the deceased. The body was double-bagged and stored in a freezer until the next port call, where the police were contacted. A lot of cleaning and disinfection work was carried out freezers."

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"A man floating alone in the Java Sea. He had been sailing for several days, and although several boats passed by him, he did not dare to hail a ship not from Indonesia, for he was afraid that he would be taken into slavery. He was very glad to see us."

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"The Indian Ocean is full of sharks. All you can see is the dorsal fins all the way to the horizon."

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"Great white shark, bitten in half."

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“Oddly enough, what surprised me was not so much the bodies of the refugees in the water, but the boots, backpacks, etc., washed up on the shore.”

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"I'm a yachtsman who spends weeks at a time at sea. I once saw a flame on the water ten meters away from me. A damn bright flame at midnight."

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"Once I went on a two-week cruise. One morning there was a commotion on the ship. It turned out that a woman had fallen overboard. She was lying face down, in a summer dress, swaying on the soft waves of the ocean. People were crying, taking their curious children away, some were frantically tried to find staff to rescue her. In fact, one of the holidaymakers left her dress and wig to dry on the balcony the night before, and the wind blew them into the water in the morning."

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"US Navy sailor. I saw a lot of amazing things, but the creepiest was a great white shark that swam (or rather drifted) between two ships while resupplying off the coast of Australia. Let me tell you, it was much, much bigger than the biggest ones." sharks I saw on the Discovery Channel. It had teeth the size of a human head. And it had huge scars on its back and tail from a propeller."

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"I served in the US Navy in the late 80s and early 90s. Our ship was sailing in the Indian Ocean, and we saw hundreds of sharks swimming near us. From time to time we received a man overboard signal. None "We couldn't find any of them at night. Usually they were suicides."

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"Toilet. I mean an ordinary household toilet floating hundreds of kilometers from land."



“It was 1998, I was only 11 years old, my family and I were boating. Two bays away from us, Swiss Air flight 111 recently crashed. We saw a suitcase floating from afar, my father quickly turned the boat towards the shore.”

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“Ice floes, covered in blood, float by... and then I remember that polar bears exist.”

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"In the 90s, we were off the coast of Gotland when we saw a helicopter from the Swedish Armed Forces. There was also a cargo ship nearby. Suddenly our onboard compass went out of order for a while, started spinning like crazy, and then returned to normal, like as if nothing had happened. I believe the submarine was directly under our ship, close enough to disrupt the magnetic field. I get goosebumps thinking about it."

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"Fast white lights in the middle of the night. They moved very erratically, then hovered like drones. And they flew in a straight line, never diagonally. We were 300 miles from land." <br
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"A glowing red ball flying through the water at night, about a foot above the water, 25 meters behind me. It moved absolutely silently, from left to right, very quickly."

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"I served in the Black Sea Fleet. We were far from the shore, talking with a colleague, looking at the stars. It was deep night. We noticed three stars that moved very quickly from one side of the sky to the other. They formed a triangular shape. They were far from each other from each other, but moved absolutely in sync. The moment they disappeared, a fourth star followed them, completing the diamond shape. The fourth star was the fastest thing I have ever seen."

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"At about 3 o'clock in the morning, off the northern coast of Alaska, we saw, as it seemed to us, a bright searchlight from some aircraft. It shone for about 10 seconds. Then it disappeared. And it shone again. And did not make any sound. It was high above mountains, so we couldn't see what it was."

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“One summer I was working on a fishing boat in Alaska. One day I woke up before sunrise because I heard a woman moaning not far from the ship. We were a few miles off the coast in the Bristol Bay area. The captain said they were seals. Soon. after that a strong storm came."

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"I've seen tiny songbirds skitter across the surface, barely clinging to life, but they fly with all their might. The saddest part is when they fly further out to sea, hoping they'll find dry land."