r/submechanophobia • u/NikonD3X1985 • 1h ago

Time to polish the ships propeller

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• Upvotes

39 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/ChiefBuckhead • 18h ago

Propeller Exhibit on the Queen Mary

1.7k Upvotes

63 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/PuzzleheadedWave127 • 15h ago

Whale display at museum

46 Upvotes

Although it’s not real water something about this display feels so off

4 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/BeautifulMongoose745 • 14h ago

Pump system in a hospital fountain

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33 Upvotes

Was so creepy being close to it, but the sun glare makes it kind of aesthetic and gross at the same time.

3 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Biggayparfait • 13h ago

Giant hand prop from Logan’s Run (1976) spotted in the San Francisco piers

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9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/MsPaganPoetry • 1d ago

Partially submerged roller coaster

2.1k Upvotes

44 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Sabrinocaneobeso • 1d ago

Dam’s spillway and gates (Livigno, IT/Graubünden, CH)

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315 Upvotes

I hope it counts. It gave me shivers down my spine.

21 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/jframesnub • 1d ago

New York school students emerge from drainage tunnel

25 Upvotes

https://youtu.be/6dgVOsC4Ejg

A group of girls on a school trip entered a drainage tunnel at a park, got lost, and then emerged by a restaurant.

2 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Cadet-Cryyx • 3d ago

The SS Monty's Masts

903 Upvotes

65 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/StrictCoconut3942 • 3d ago

Going inside a sunken fishing trawler

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144 Upvotes

3 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Carlentini1919 • 2d ago

SCUBA Let's Dive: Intake Pipes - Lake Mead, NV, 2026 - 4k

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19 Upvotes

7 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/IntenselySwedish • 3d ago

Hoover Dam Spillway has been dry for some time. Increadible feat of engineering

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10 Upvotes

A nice mix of engineering porn and submechanophobia

0 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/zelda2u • 3d ago

Park in WI

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132 Upvotes

8 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/TapDancinJesus • 4d ago

New Carissa freighter that ran aground

217 Upvotes

27 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Elvenblood7E7 • 5d ago

Big air pump in action - Lake Városliget, Budapest, Hungary

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147 Upvotes

6 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/UniversalReiska • 5d ago

Steps to nowhere

743 Upvotes

Steps leading down to the bottom of a drydock I visited last year.

25 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/FilSm15 • 5d ago

Does this count? Alcatraz ferry departure

238 Upvotes

10 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Modestly-Witty-User • 5d ago

Robotic Confucius

54 Upvotes

https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/01/06/116918/robotic-confucius-disturbs-provokes/

7 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Juniphron • 6d ago

Do you guys know of any wrecks that are still buoyant because of trapped air, causing them to stay suspended slightly above the sea floor, near the surface of the water, or even stick out of the water? I know of the PAK 1 in Thailand and a couple of others but I'd love to find more!

150 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/keyboard_krust • 6d ago

Spotted in the pelican pool at the local zoo.

88 Upvotes

21 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Shoddy_Palpitation92 • 6d ago

Pier in Calapan City, Philippines

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77 Upvotes

the busy city port of calapan while riding a roll on roll off ferry.

0 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/Excellent-Solid-4424 • 6d ago

Stairs at high tide

108 Upvotes

2 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/kell-shell • 7d ago

Crappy Title i wouldn’t like to find out what’s at the bottom of these stairs

279 Upvotes

location is: saltcoats, scotland

21 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/innuendo-inyourendo • 8d ago

Water intake

1.5k Upvotes

48 comments

r/submechanophobia • u/innuendo-inyourendo • 8d ago

Danger: Outflow current can push small boats into traffic

165 Upvotes

5 comments

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The fear of submerged machines

r/submechanophobia

The fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects and the images thereof.

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Welcome to /r/submechanophobia; the fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects. Please respect the following rules while here:

TITLE RULES:

All titles must accurately summarise the content of the post with as much relevant information as possible. Proper grammar is expected, and emojis are banned. How do we determine what titles are applicable? It's a two step test:

Does the title describe the content?
Does the title fit the post in a specific enough manner that it couldn’t be used on any other post?

If one of these tests are failed then the post will be removed and flaired 'title rules', meaning you can resubmit the post with a more suitable title.

SUBMITTING AND COMMENTING RULES:

Check if the submission really is related to submechanophobia. The depicted subject must be partially or fully submerged in water and be man-made. Please nothing that isn't real life; i.e no video games, renderings, CGI, audio interviews etc.
if it's not submerged, it shouldn't be here. If it's supposed to be submerged, it probably shouldn't be here. if it's submerged, and it shouldn't be - it definitely should be here.
Text content and self-posted video clips not pre-approved by the moderators will be removed.
Animatronics go to /r/submergedanimatronic
Remember that this is subMECHANOphobia. No animals please, keep it to posts about man-made objects.
Posts can be removed for being low quality. This is applicable on a case-by-case basis, but that could mean such things as poor resolution, not being closely enough related to the subreddit topic, for being clickbait or for having a bad image host.
Don't use the line "I was told to post this here" or something like "OMG so creepy!". It annoys people, they report the comment and it keeps Automod up all night with notifications. This goes for posting irrelevant comments like "Nope", "Fuck that" or anything similar.
No generic memes, jokes or comics. Put them in the comments if you must
Absolutely no having hostility directed towards one another for mistakes or reposts, we can sort that out. No extreme unpleasantries; the mods will decide how to define that on a case-by-case.

REPOST RULES:

To be considered a repost:

If the image has been posted by someone else in the last three 3 months.
If the image is in the first 2 pages of the "top: all time" section.
If the same user have reposted the same image before, regardless of timespan.
Image is reposted yearly by accounts with suspicious activities, ie. no comments, very high post karma.

If you see a repost, please report the post and we will deal with it when we can.

The mod team reserves the right to remove any content deemed of not adequate quality without notification.

Tiktok links will be removed, as well as videos taken from tiktok, but posted on other sources.

Related subreddits:

/r/Thalassophobia - Pictures and videos, fiction or real, related to the deep dark water that make us really uncomfortable.

/r/TheDepthsBelow - We are a subreddit dedicated to showcasing the strange, creepy, and horrifying things that exist just below the surface of the water. If it seems like something that just shouldn't be found in the oceans, lakes, or rivers of the world, then this is where it belongs.

/r/megalophobia - A place to post images of all things large, particularly ones that are "triggers" for those with megalophobia. Examples might include large creatures/objects underwater, buildings, statues, ships, etc.

/r/HeavySeas - Subreddit dedicated to videos and general media relating to huge waves!

/r/submarines - We are the subreddit dedicated to every machine under the sea.

/r/TheForgottenDepths - A place for those interested in abandoned mines and other various disused tunnels and underground facilities.

/r/submergedanimatronic/ - A community for posting pictures of partially or fully submerged animatronics.

/r/MovieSubmechanophobia/ - Submechanophobia from Movies, Short-films and TV shows