Horrors from the depths: how big water can scare (18 photos)
Fear of large bodies of water is a fairly common phenomenon among people, known as thalassophobia or limnophobia. Giant structures half-hidden by waves, shadows receding into the endless blue, shapes that are either man-made or alive - all this awakens an ancient fear of the unknown. Let's see... how scary big water can be.
"At a depth of 24 meters in Lake Neuchâtel, I met Bruce." Bruce is probably the shark from the cartoon "Finding Nemo". Indeed, he looks like it.
"In the morning I inspected the cruiser Queen Mary and had the pleasure of going into the room with the propeller"
Airplane on the ocean day
The Ancestor Project at the Nkeinkim Museum, Ghana
Partially submerged objects are the most terrifying
Abandoned and torn apart wreckage of an ocean liner SS America
The ruins of a sunken church in Pernambuco, Brazil
Two divers near the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic that sank four years later in 1916
This is a New Zealand Navy ship that hit a reef and sank.
Don't you want to go down?
Okay, maybe we'll go down here then?
An offshore oil rig that washed ashore on the Isle of Lewis due to extreme weather conditions in 2016
An underwater mine in Finland
Paris reservoir
Wreckage of the German heavy cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen
What are you doing there?!
(Underwater) Underpass
Why not swim next to these huge underwater things?