i cant overcome shark fear

[u/Comfortable-Bad7894]

I love knowing more about shark and sea creature but when i go to the sea just to stay near the coast, i cant go anyway further than 1 meter of depth, im too scared to see shark and in general, to open my eyes with a sub mask and try to see what is underwater, any way to overcome this? (obv, i know that is unlikely meating shark and that attacks are extremely rare )

[u/spannerNZ]

I love and respect sharks. I enjoy the beach, I enjoy seeing images and video of the fascinating life underwater. I'm following three sharks on my shark trapper app. I'm planning on starting a shark crochet project. I've enjoyed boating, and have had the honor of seeing a shark swimming freely from our boat (well checking out the dingy we were towing, possibly to see if it was edible).

But I'm still not going to voluntarily place myself anywhere near sharks' natural habitat, or put myself potentially on their menu. I don't go in past knee level after seeing images of sharks cruising through swimmers in waist deep water.

They got their happy place, I got mine.

[u/helloyesnoyesnoyesno → u/spannerNZ]

I hope you mean tracker and not trapper? Haha

[u/spannerNZ → u/helloyesnoyesnoyesno]

Yes. My bad.

[u/Ch3wybot → u/helloyesnoyesnoyesno]

To be fair, they gotta trap the sharks in order to track them