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<p>Is there any place more fascinating than the deep ocean, where sharks and skeletons coexist?! Most of us only see the depths of the ocean through the camera work of <em>Planet Earth</em> or if lucky, brief snorkeling excursions on vacation.</p><p>Luckily, the people who regularly dive have enough stories to spread around for the rest of us. Since aquatic life is rich and fascinating, and humans can be sinister and love to drop secrets in the ocean, there are a lot of experiences to be had underwater.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">a recent Reddit thread</a>, divers and people who regularly explore the depths of the ocean shared some of their scariest tales from the deep blue. These only confirm that the ocean is its own world completely.</p><h2>1.<a class="_23wugcdiaj44hdfugIAlnX" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FuckSirah/">FuckSirah </a>got more than they bargained for.</h2><div class="_2mHuuvyV9doV3zwbZPtIPG"> <div class="_16AAktgl_rVbXAeiWU9CQd" id="UserInfoTooltip--t1_ett9yvc"> </div> </div><blockquote> <p>&quot;I dropped my goggles and was trying to reach down in the river and grab it but I pulled out a sheep skull by its sockets. Wasn&rsquo;t as creepy in hindsight but 10 year old me was scared.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. <a class="_23wugcdiaj44hdfugIAlnX" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/UrethraFrankIin/">UrethraFrankIin</a> has a friend who found watery graves.</h2><blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;You can dive in man made lakes and check out what&#39;s left of old flooded homes and communities. It&#39;s pretty dark and spooky down there no matter what, especially when you think of all the big fish swimming around that are barely silhouettes until they&#39;re close.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2 class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">3.<a class="_23wugcdiaj44hdfugIAlnX" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThePowerfulHorse/">ThePowerfulHorse</a> almost got eaten by an Orca.</h2><div class="_3cjCphgls6DH-irkVaA0GM" data-test-id="comment"> <div class="RichTextJSON-root s1l7dkv5-0 bifmfF"> <blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;Not unexplainable, but gave the a bit of a fright; I worked as a commercial diver for about 7yrs in the UK and also some work in Europe.&quot;</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;I was working in Orkney, North of Scotland, on the fish farms. One time I swam down one of the bigger nets off Rousay and it was very dark, very overgrown, and I could see some weird shapes lying in the dead man&#39;s sock as I descended. There were a few more dead fish than usual, maybe a hundred or so, but underneath them were lying three dead seals. Big ones.&quot;</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;It was hard to make out because they were covered in fish but one of the seals had a big fucking chunk of it missing. And that&#39;s when I looked up and saw a four foot tear in the side of the net. Fuck that. I was only a noobie at this point (fish farm work is generally the best way to start a diving career, doesn&#39;t pay the best but you get plenty of minutes logged which helps for experience). I told the supervisor who said get out straight away. They sent one of the more experienced lads in after me and he fixed the hole sharpish and then rigged the seals up to be lifted out.&quot;</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;Turns out the seals had been killed by Orca and somehow got through the net in a panic. Orca are quite common up in Orkney and are the only animal we were told you HAD to get out the water for if seen. Only one of the seals had a bite mark, the other two got caught in the net.</p> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">Not supernatural or anything but I remember a significant shiver running down my spine that day.&quot;</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="s1wjcqzz-10 lkEbBw">&quot;EDIT; woah. More responses than I&#39;ve ever had on a post. To answer the question about &#39;why Orcas?&#39;, I was told by one of the Marine Environment lads who used to regularly come out on the boats with us, that it&#39;s a precautionary thing. Wearing black neoprene and fins you <em class="s1wjcqzz-15 eVRrwT">may</em> be mistaken for a seal and become breakfast. To be fair, it&#39;s a precaution I was very happy to go along with. We don&#39;t get Great Whites or Tiger Sharks up here, but I&#39;d imagine in South Africa, India, Australia etc there would be similar rules.&quot;</p> </blockquote> </div> </div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <div class="_3cjCphgls6DH-irkVaA0GM" data-test-id="comment"> <div class="RichTextJSON-root s1l7dkv5-0 bifmfF"> <p>&quot;My buddy likes to dive in lakes. He said the creepiest thing, by far, is finding cemeteries 100 ft + beneath the water in the dark, eerie quiet.&quot;</p> </div> </div> </blockquote><h2>4. <a class="_23wugcdiaj44hdfugIAlnX" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/liquidtacomeat/">liquidtacomeat</a> and his buddies were stalked by a shark.</h2><div class="_2mHuuvyV9doV3zwbZPtIPG"> <div class="_16AAktgl_rVbXAeiWU9CQd" id="UserInfoTooltip--t1_ettai69"> </div> </div><blockquote> <p>&quot;When living off the coast some buddies and I would take regular fishing trips out to the oil rigs. We would always have some lines out and a few would dive down and try to spear some mangrove snapper or cobia. Once while I and two others were diving down checking out the structure we decided we needed to move due to lack of life around the rig.. we all get back in the boat and as one of my buddies is reeling in a line we had a red snapper baited on.. an easily 8-10ft tiger shark starts chewing on it right behind the prop, so close I could have poked his eye out. The idea that massive animal was in the water so close to me and two of my friends but no one saw it is terrifying. I bet he was watching us the whole time.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">camberto5&#39;s</a> dive master discovered an underwater crime scene.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I had a dive master that told me once he was diving somewhere and found a full skeleton wearing diving gear with the air on the tank turned off pretty deep down. If I remember correctly they said they reported it to the police and it was found out the man&#39;s wife turned off his air while they were on a dive to murder him.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">dandylahma</a> has a real creepy one on deck.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I dive myself but heard this story from a garda diver. In 2010 a man took a test drive in a car with the salesman and in a suicide attempt he drove the car off the pier into the sea and drowned. The salesman managed to escape by breaking the window and swimming to the surface. The divers were dispatched to retrieve the other man&#39;s body.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;This isn&#39;t in the news report which I have a link to below for anyone interested. Simply, through working in marinas at the time I was able to be part of the conversation with the diver in question. When he got to the car, he said,the man was still facing forward, hands on the steering wheel, eyes wide. He&#39;d been there a a couple of hours now, where it gets creepy is when the driver opened the driver door, this combined with the smashed window caused the currents to flow through the car and the man&#39;s wide eyed head turned around slowly with the force of it to face the diver.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">sidetrack38</a> got charged by a humpback.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Got charged by a mother humpback, her curious calf had swum around us and we were between her and the calf. Two of us never saw it coming, we were watching the baby, but our third diver watched her come. She kicked down and swam under us last minute. We didn&#39;t see anything until that 60 ft freight train passed just underneath us.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">Handsomekiwiboy</a> knows a story about giant eels.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I got told a story once by a Maori Language teacher of mine during my time at High School. We didn&#39;t learn much Maori, just listened to stories. A dam in the Waikato, New Zealand had begun to have visible cracks in the concrete on the outside part of the dam and some drivers were organised to dive down and check the inside submerged part of the dam for damage on that side.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;While they were down there, there was the usual debris you would find behind a man made wall which prevents the water from flowing as it would normally if there wasn&#39;t a dam there.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;Turns out what they thought were large logs were in fact huge eels which had gotten to the size of logs due to being prevented from migrating to the sea, where they breed and die. So from being prevented from doing their natural life duties, they just get larger and larger. That would be creepy seeing eels deep down in the water just floating around...&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">RCMW181</a> met a moray with a love of seashells.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot; An old WW2 ammunition ship off the south coast of England was full of brass topped shells. Most had been taken by divers over the years and it was now very rare to see them, apart from a pile in one corner of the ship.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;This pile of shiny brass metals was miraculous untouched and remarkably clean after spending years underwater and you only found out why if you swam near them.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;Out of the murky darkness the largest moray I have every seen snakes forward, without exaggeration this thing had a head the same size as a horse&#39;s head full of jagged teeth. I could not see the body as it looped into the dark and deeper into the ship. No one got near those shells.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;Turns out for years this thing had been guarding the shiny brass shells, slithering over them making them shine. We found out at the bar later that he was famous in the area and many people went to the wreck just to see him. No idea why this giant creature was guarding them like a dragon and its horde, but some said morays are like magpies and shiny things.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">username_redacted</a> was spied on underwater.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;When I was a kid swimming in the lake at summer camp, I dove underwater and I swear I saw someone in SCUBA gear hiding underneath the dock watching us. I told the lifeguard but he wasn&#39;t able to find anyone.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>11. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">Khary19</a> found a hospital gurney.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I used to teach canoeing lessons to Boy Scout troops at a local neighborhood lake. Super small lake that&#39;s not very deep but the bottom was hella thick with vegetation. The water was &quot;dark&quot; so you couldn&#39;t see your hands in front of you for more than like 5 inches under the surface. There was a small clubhouse, an open pavillion, and a playground all on the property. When doing lifeguard work in the water during a swim test, my sunglasses fell off my head. I dove down to find them and shit you not - I found a sunken, entangled hospital gurney at the bottom of the lake. It took a few people to untangle it but how the eff it got there was beyond me. Clearly it had been there for years.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">Digestivesrule</a> had a real scary in-the-dark moment.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I&#39;m a commercial diver, and was once on a job cleaning a potable water reservoir. I&#39;d been in other reservoirs before, but this was by far the biggest, at 40x80 metres. To get in you had to open a hatch in the ground (the whole reservoir was underground) and climb down a ladder. The hatch was in a corner, so when you were in the far corner of the reservoir, it was completely pitch black, and you just had to hoe your light didn&#39;t go out. I was about half way through a three hour dive when the batteries in my torch started going flat.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;I watched the beam get narrower and dimmer until it cut out completely. It&#39;s not a huge problem if you lost light, as you can just follow your umbilical back to the hatch. Just as I started walking back, some obnoxiously loud banging started in the reservoir. I was the only diver in there, so it both confused and scared the shit out of me. Needless to say, I ran back to the hatch as fast as I could. I ended up getting my torch changed out and doing another hour in the water, but didn&#39;t hear the noise again. I still have no idea what it was, but the combination of my torch going out and loud banging coming from somewhere gave me a hell of a fright.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">op2mus_2357</a> knows of catfish the size of vans.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Not a diver but heard from the old divers that worked for the core of engineers, that there&#39;s some huge catfish around the bottom of the dams, like the size of vans.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>14. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">count_dynamo</a> found a freezer full of dolls.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I&#39;ve done a number of dives, and the strangest thing I ever saw was a large deep freezer with a heavy industrial chain wrapped around multiple times with about 5 cinder blocks attached. It was very very rusted and the deep freezer itself had to have been about 30+ years old, probably more. This was about 90 feet deep just off Vancouver Island, Canada. The situation gave myself and the other divers the newbie jeebies. Logged the gps and depth coordinates and notified the police. We were able to find out what was inside, since one of the divers had friends with local police. 10 porcelain dolls...&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>15. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">Erkjoh</a> knows the feeling of a haunted house underwater.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I used to do a lot of night dives hunting for lobster off the coast of California. We&#39;d start at 9 or 10 at night so everything is obviously pitch black besides when we were pointing our lights. Every so often I&#39;d get this unshakeable feeling that something big was watching me or following me. Sometimes I could quiet that part of my brain and continue with the dive. Other times I couldn&#39;t shake the feeling and would end the dive after a few minutes. It&#39;s a hard feeling to describe but I guess I&#39;d compare it to being in a haunted house but 50ft underwater in complete darkness.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">chaantayx</a> went head to head with a shark.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I once went diving in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where it is quite popular to see sharks. We begin diving and we are quite ar from the shore, there&#39;s a cool looking structure under us, we swim towards it to get a closer look and I just start getting this cold cold cold cold feeling running through my body, and that&#39;s when a shark appeared and I shat my body in fear.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>17. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cdaq3i/divers_and_people_who_spend_a_lot_of_time/" target="_blank">teamu&#39;s</a> dad has some scary stories.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;This isn&#39;t my story but my dad&#39;s. So when he was in grad school he did some field study classes some of which involved diving in Monterey Bay. One day he was diving counting something off of the Santa Cruz Pier and he finds a shopping cart with bricks and cinderblocks and a chain attached to the handle. He naturally followed the chain and found a bare foot wrapped in the chain. He assumes something probably ate the rest of the body and apparently his friends had seen similar things too.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;Also not mine but my dad&#39;s friend. He says he was on a shelf counting mussels when he felt something tap his tank and he looked around and didn&#39;t see anything. He figured it was a seal cause they like to play. When he was nudged again he saw it was a great white. He says he thought to himself &quot;if it gets me it gets me I can&#39;t swim out.&quot; Now I don&#39;t know if he was actually that chill I sure wouldn&#39;t be but that&#39;s how he tells it.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>18. K1ngNightmare47 and their friends found a murder scene.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I do not dive often but I had gone to a lake with a couple of friends and we were all diving in different parts of the lake to look for others lost belongings. I was bringing up an ammo box I had found I looked over to a group of my friends at the dock and one was holding what looked like a small cloth bag so I didn&#39;t really bother walking over to check it out. Turns out it was a bag full of small urns with the same name on it. It really spooked us so we figured whoever put it there wants it there so we put them back and left almost immediately afterwards.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Divers are sharing the creepiest things they've seen under water. Look out for murder scenes.

Is there any place more fascinating than the deep ocean, where sharks and skeletons coexist?! Most of us only see the depths of the ocean through the camera work of Planet Earth or if lucky, brief snorkeling excursions on vacation.Luckily, the people who regularly dive have enough stories to spread around for the rest of us. Since aquatic life is rich and fascinating, and humans can be sinister and love to drop secrets in the ocean, there are a lot of experiences to be had underwater.In a recent Reddit thread, divers and people who regularly explore the depths of the ocean shared some of their scariest tales from the deep blue. These only confirm that the ocean is its own world completely.1.FuckSirah got more than they bargained for.    &quot;I dropped my goggles and was trying to reach down in the river and grab it but I pulled out a sheep skull by its sockets. Wasn&rsquo;t as creepy in hindsight but 10 year old me was scared.&quot; 2. UrethraFrankIin has a friend who found watery graves. &quot;You can dive in man made lakes and check out what&#39;s left of old flooded homes and communities. It&#39;s pretty dark and spooky down there no matter what, especially when you think of all the big fish swimming around that are barely silhouettes until they&#39;re close.&quot; 3.ThePowerfulHorse almost got eaten by an Orca.   &quot;Not unexplainable, but gave the a bit of a fright; I worked as a commercial diver for about 7yrs in the UK and also some work in Europe.&quot;   &quot;I was working in Orkney, North of Scotland, on the fish farms. One time I swam down one of the bigger nets off Rousay and it was very dark, very overgrown, and I could see some weird shapes lying in the dead man&#39;s sock as I descended. There were a few more dead fish than usual, maybe a hundred or so, but underneath them were lying three dead seals. Big ones.&quot;   &quot;It was hard to make out because they were covered in fish but one of the seals had a big fucking chunk of it missing. And that&#39;s when I looked up and saw a four foot tear in the side of the net. Fuck that. I was only a noobie at this point (fish farm work is generally the best way to start a diving career, doesn&#39;t pay the best but you get plenty of minutes logged which helps for experience). I told the supervisor who said get out straight away. They sent one of the more experienced lads in after me and he fixed the hole sharpish and then rigged the seals up to be lifted out.&quot;   &quot;Turns out the seals had been killed by Orca and somehow got through the net in a panic. Orca are quite common up in Orkney and are the only animal we were told you HAD to get out the water for if seen. Only one of the seals had a bite mark, the other two got caught in the net. Not supernatural or anything but I remember a significant shiver running down my spine that day.&quot;   &quot;EDIT; woah. More responses than I&#39;ve ever had on a post. To answer the question about &#39;why Orcas?&#39;, I was told by one of the Marine Environment lads who used to regularly come out on the boats with us, that it&#39;s a precautionary thing. Wearing black neoprene and fins you may be mistaken for a seal and become breakfast. To be fair, it&#39;s a precaution I was very happy to go along with. We don&#39;t get Great Whites or Tiger Sharks up here, but I&#39;d imagine in South Africa, India, Australia etc there would be similar rules.&quot;      &quot;My buddy likes to dive in lakes. He said the creepiest thing, by far, is finding cemeteries 100 ft + beneath the water in the dark, eerie quiet.&quot;   4. liquidtacomeat and his buddies were stalked by a shark.    &quot;When living off the coast some buddies and I would take regular fishing trips out to the oil rigs. We would always have some lines out and a few would dive down and try to spear some mangrove snapper or cobia. Once while I and two others were diving down checking out the structure we decided we needed to move due to lack of life around the rig.. we all get back in the boat and as one of my buddies is reeling in a line we had a red snapper baited on.. an easily 8-10ft tiger shark starts chewing on it right behind the prop, so close I could have poked his eye out. The idea that massive animal was in the water so close to me and two of my friends but no one saw it is terrifying. I bet he was watching us the whole time.&quot; 5. camberto5&#39;s dive master discovered an underwater crime scene. &quot;I had a dive master that told me once he was diving somewhere and found a full skeleton wearing diving gear with the air on the tank turned off pretty deep down. If I remember correctly they said they reported it to the police and it was found out the man&#39;s wife turned off his air while they were on a dive to murder him.&quot; 6. dandylahma has a real creepy one on deck. &quot;I dive myself but heard this story from a garda diver. In 2010 a man took a test drive in a car with the salesman and in a suicide attempt he drove the car off the pier into the sea and drowned. The salesman managed to escape by breaking the window and swimming to the surface. The divers were dispatched to retrieve the other man&#39;s body.&quot;  &quot;This isn&#39;t in the news report which I have a link to below for anyone interested. Simply, through working in marinas at the time I was able to be part of the conversation with the diver in question. When he got to the car, he said,the man was still facing forward, hands on the steering wheel, eyes wide. He&#39;d been there a a couple of hours now, where it gets creepy is when the driver opened the driver door, this combined with the smashed window caused the currents to flow through the car and the man&#39;s wide eyed head turned around slowly with the force of it to face the diver.&quot; 7. sidetrack38 got charged by a humpback. &quot;Got charged by a mother humpback, her curious calf had swum around us and we were between her and the calf. Two of us never saw it coming, we were watching the baby, but our third diver watched her come. She kicked down and swam under us last minute. We didn&#39;t see anything until that 60 ft freight train passed just underneath us.&quot; 8. Handsomekiwiboy knows a story about giant eels. &quot;I got told a story once by a Maori Language teacher of mine during my time at High School. We didn&#39;t learn much Maori, just listened to stories. A dam in the Waikato, New Zealand had begun to have visible cracks in the concrete on the outside part of the dam and some drivers were organised to dive down and check the inside submerged part of the dam for damage on that side.&quot;  &quot;While they were down there, there was the usual debris you would find behind a man made wall which prevents the water from flowing as it would normally if there wasn&#39;t a dam there.&quot;  &quot;Turns out what they thought were large logs were in fact huge eels which had gotten to the size of logs due to being prevented from migrating to the sea, where they breed and die. So from being prevented from doing their natural life duties, they just get larger and larger. That would be creepy seeing eels deep down in the water just floating around...&quot; 9. RCMW181 met a moray with a love of seashells. &quot; An old WW2 ammunition ship off the south coast of England was full of brass topped shells. Most had been taken by divers over the years and it was now very rare to see them, apart from a pile in one corner of the ship.&quot;  &quot;This pile of shiny brass metals was miraculous untouched and remarkably clean after spending years underwater and you only found out why if you swam near them.&quot;  &quot;Out of the murky darkness the largest moray I have every seen snakes forward, without exaggeration this thing had a head the same size as a horse&#39;s head full of jagged teeth. I could not see the body as it looped into the dark and deeper into the ship. No one got near those shells.&quot;  &quot;Turns out for years this thing had been guarding the shiny brass shells, slithering over them making them shine. We found out at the bar later that he was famous in the area and many people went to the wreck just to see him. No idea why this giant creature was guarding them like a dragon and its horde, but some said morays are like magpies and shiny things.&quot; 10. username_redacted was spied on underwater. &quot;When I was a kid swimming in the lake at summer camp, I dove underwater and I swear I saw someone in SCUBA gear hiding underneath the dock watching us. I told the lifeguard but he wasn&#39;t able to find anyone.&quot; 11. Khary19 found a hospital gurney. &quot;I used to teach canoeing lessons to Boy Scout troops at a local neighborhood lake. Super small lake that&#39;s not very deep but the bottom was hella thick with vegetation. The water was &quot;dark&quot; so you couldn&#39;t see your hands in front of you for more than like 5 inches under the surface. There was a small clubhouse, an open pavillion, and a playground all on the property. When doing lifeguard work in the water during a swim test, my sunglasses fell off my head. I dove down to find them and shit you not - I found a sunken, entangled hospital gurney at the bottom of the lake. It took a few people to untangle it but how the eff it got there was beyond me. Clearly it had been there for years.&quot; 12. Digestivesrule had a real scary in-the-dark moment. &quot;I&#39;m a commercial diver, and was once on a job cleaning a potable water reservoir. I&#39;d been in other reservoirs before, but this was by far the biggest, at 40x80 metres. To get in you had to open a hatch in the ground (the whole reservoir was underground) and climb down a ladder. The hatch was in a corner, so when you were in the far corner of the reservoir, it was completely pitch black, and you just had to hoe your light didn&#39;t go out. I was about half way through a three hour dive when the batteries in my torch started going flat.&quot;  &quot;I watched the beam get narrower and dimmer until it cut out completely. It&#39;s not a huge problem if you lost light, as you can just follow your umbilical back to the hatch. Just as I started walking back, some obnoxiously loud banging started in the reservoir. I was the only diver in there, so it both confused and scared the shit out of me. Needless to say, I ran back to the hatch as fast as I could. I ended up getting my torch changed out and doing another hour in the water, but didn&#39;t hear the noise again. I still have no idea what it was, but the combination of my torch going out and loud banging coming from somewhere gave me a hell of a fright.&quot; 13. op2mus_2357 knows of catfish the size of vans. &quot;Not a diver but heard from the old divers that worked for the core of engineers, that there&#39;s some huge catfish around the bottom of the dams, like the size of vans.&quot; 14. count_dynamo found a freezer full of dolls. &quot;I&#39;ve done a number of dives, and the strangest thing I ever saw was a large deep freezer with a heavy industrial chain wrapped around multiple times with about 5 cinder blocks attached. It was very very rusted and the deep freezer itself had to have been about 30+ years old, probably more. This was about 90 feet deep just off Vancouver Island, Canada. The situation gave myself and the other divers the newbie jeebies. Logged the gps and depth coordinates and notified the police. We were able to find out what was inside, since one of the divers had friends with local police. 10 porcelain dolls...&quot; 15. Erkjoh knows the feeling of a haunted house underwater. &quot;I used to do a lot of night dives hunting for lobster off the coast of California. We&#39;d start at 9 or 10 at night so everything is obviously pitch black besides when we were pointing our lights. Every so often I&#39;d get this unshakeable feeling that something big was watching me or following me. Sometimes I could quiet that part of my brain and continue with the dive. Other times I couldn&#39;t shake the feeling and would end the dive after a few minutes. It&#39;s a hard feeling to describe but I guess I&#39;d compare it to being in a haunted house but 50ft underwater in complete darkness.&quot; 16. chaantayx went head to head with a shark. &quot;I once went diving in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where it is quite popular to see sharks. We begin diving and we are quite ar from the shore, there&#39;s a cool looking structure under us, we swim towards it to get a closer look and I just start getting this cold cold cold cold feeling running through my body, and that&#39;s when a shark appeared and I shat my body in fear.&quot; 17. teamu&#39;s dad has some scary stories. &quot;This isn&#39;t my story but my dad&#39;s. So when he was in grad school he did some field study classes some of which involved diving in Monterey Bay. One day he was diving counting something off of the Santa Cruz Pier and he finds a shopping cart with bricks and cinderblocks and a chain attached to the handle. He naturally followed the chain and found a bare foot wrapped in the chain. He assumes something probably ate the rest of the body and apparently his friends had seen similar things too.&quot;  &quot;Also not mine but my dad&#39;s friend. He says he was on a shelf counting mussels when he felt something tap his tank and he looked around and didn&#39;t see anything. He figured it was a seal cause they like to play. When he was nudged again he saw it was a great white. He says he thought to himself &quot;if it gets me it gets me I can&#39;t swim out.&quot; Now I don&#39;t know if he was actually that chill I sure wouldn&#39;t be but that&#39;s how he tells it.&quot; 18. K1ngNightmare47 and their friends found a murder scene. &quot;I do not dive often but I had gone to a lake with a couple of friends and we were all diving in different parts of the lake to look for others lost belongings. I was bringing up an ammo box I had found I looked over to a group of my friends at the dock and one was holding what looked like a small cloth bag so I didn&#39;t really bother walking over to check it out. Turns out it was a bag full of small urns with the same name on it. It really spooked us so we figured whoever put it there wants it there so we put them back and left almost immediately afterwards. 

Is there any place more fascinating than the deep ocean, where sharks and skeletons coexist?!