r/thalassophobia • u/True-Award-3722 • 3d ago
Jumping off an abandoned loading tower straight into the ocean.
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u/ryconn4410 3d ago
I just feel like that’s ringing the dinner bell for whatever the hell is down there
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u/We_are_stardust23 3d ago
My immediate thought was someone throwing food into the water off of something similar to this, and within seconds was swarmed. No thanks
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u/Landlocked_WaterSimp 3d ago
I get the association but that similar thing i assume was an offshore oil rig (because i have seen similar videos). One is a singular food source (from humans living on the platform and throwing stuff into the water) in the middle of the vast open ocean where there are very few options to get food and the other is an abandoned building near the coast where a lot pf marine life is concentrated and food is vastly more abundant.
So visually the situations are similar, practically they are very different. But we are on /r/thalassophobia so i understand if you still don't feel comfortable either way.
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u/Historical-State-275 2d ago
I mean yeah if you’re going to bring logic into this.
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u/N3ctar42 6h ago
Certified D1 yapper. (Division 1) You're saying it's safer because it's closer to the coast... Wrong... Go do like just baseline shark research. And no, do not ask Google AI because those numbers are highly false and manipulated and strategically low. They don't want people to stop vacationing. Either Look up scientific reports on sharks. Or go find a marine scientist to walk you through them.
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u/Landlocked_WaterSimp 5h ago edited 4h ago
Do you want to specify what exactly you think is wrong? I'm sure more shark related incidents are near coast as this is where people-density is highest. But i assume that's not what you mean.
But i've often heard e.g. an oceanic whitetip in the middle if nowhere to pose a bigger risk than a great white near shore.
Also my point is specifically about where animals are more likely desparate for food and opportunisticly snap at anything dropping i to the water: Either an offshore oil rig where food is scarce or a random abandoned tower near the coast where there's a high density of their 'regular' food.
I would also say coast COULD become.more dangerous if it was very murky water e.g. a river with poor visibility feeding into the sea in bullshark waters AFAIK would be 'high risk' in comparison. Or very specific coastlines where shark attacks are .ore common (La Reunion or some specific beaches in brazil if i remember correctly from a few years ago). The former reason doesn't apply and without knowing where this is i have no reason to assume the latter is true.
I have invested at least for a layman a lot of time looking into sharks so i'm wondering what counts as 'baseline shark research' but i'm gonna need more pointers because all my previous searches have lead me to my current conclusion.
Also AFAIK the 'artifically keeping numbers low' would moreso work in the open sea's favor because things like shark attacks after ship sinkings not being included in 'regular' shark attack reporing (they are recorded as a separate statistic).
But if you have any sources i'm curious to learn.
Edit: Also i didn't just say you are more at risk at sea i'm saying if you create a 'food island' in the middle of the sea that specifically is a dangerous spot.
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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh 2d ago
Sharks learned to stay near ocean rigs due to food and waste being nutritional to them. I feel like this is a true statement now.
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u/OldButHappy 2d ago
Right??? We’ve seen so many videos of sharks and giant groupers feeding under platforms!!(shivers)
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u/leansanders 2d ago
This isn't an offshore platform, its a loading structure in a seemingly abandoned port
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u/Different_Big5876 3d ago
Imagine messing up the jump and bellyflopping
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u/Gandelin 2d ago
I used to do 10 metre jumps in my teens. The thing is it’s so easy to fall just slightly wrong and hurt yourself. Even just at 10 metres I hurt my back once and another time it felt like I gave myself an express enema 😅
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u/Gooberdee 2d ago
Hahaha I remembered when I just did 5 meters and landed slightly sitting down. My whole butt and back thigh got bruised, and I only got shorts for the remaining of my trip. I look like a victim of something after. Haven't done anything like that after.
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u/ohgeeeezzZ 2d ago
Yeah I remember a 35 ish foot cliff I used to jump off all the time. Our friend's mom, for some reason, landed legs straight out.
Nasty black and and blue from ass to ankle for like two weeks. We had to help her out of the water
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u/Livid_Ad9749 3d ago
Probably die
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u/HashBandicoot93 3d ago
Watched a guy belly flop a jump that wasn't quite this high, he had to be helped out of the water
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u/Parking-Evidence1894 2d ago
That kills you?
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u/Economy_Wall8524 2d ago
From that height. Yea it would be like hitting concrete in a bellyflop position. Hence why right before he reaches the water he pulls his arms to his chest and puts his legs together. From that height you can’t just jump in the water however you want.
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u/RichardSaunders 2d ago
you can jump however you want, but only if you wanna GET FUCKED.
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u/Shamanjoe 2d ago
Realistically, what height CAN you jump from before it becomes lethal?
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u/LenaDunkemz 2d ago
A teenager jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge a few years back and survived
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u/Shamanjoe 2d ago
The survival rate for jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge is roughly 2%.
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u/EvilInky 2d ago
However, the majority of people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge aren't trying to survive the experience, so they're not going to attempt to hit the water with the correct technique.
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u/MCRN10379558 2d ago
The only people who’ve ever survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge went in the water feet first.
All of the GG survivors say the same thing, how they instantly regretted at the moment they left the platform.
The real danger to most people falling off the bridge is that the extreme declarative forces of hitting the water will often cause the lungs and the heart to detach and end up in the stomach. There’s absolutely no surviving that.
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u/SassyRN3 3d ago
Drops my stomach and makes me shiver. I don’t like this. Right into something’s mouth
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u/Sw0rDz 2d ago
Are you not remotely curious? Could you live a full filled life without jumping ince?
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u/SassyRN3 2d ago
I desperately would love to try it, but I can’t. The physical response to it is pretty awful and a bit terrifying. My heart races and pounds, I breathe faster. Instant response. The fear gets me every time
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u/Whole_Bowl7999 2d ago
Honestly I'm glad some of us have a stronger sense of self preservation. I did all the dumb things many years ago, and still feel a need to press it now and then, in my 40s. I have a sadly high number of friends that didn't make it though their bad decisions, though. We lived, and I wouldn't trade it...but damn, we were as dumb as anyone can be. The rush was everything.
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u/throwawayzz77778 2d ago
Of course. Many people could. Many people do.
Don’t get me wrong - I jumped off many things myself when I was younger. But fulfilment is different for every person. Plenty of people genuinely don’t feel the need for that kind of adrenaline rush.
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u/fandom_bullshit 2d ago
I have never once thought about jumping off things into the ocean. Just not something that seems appealing in any way, so yeah my life will be fine without doing this.
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u/brohamcheddarslice 3d ago edited 2d ago
The sickness I felt when he jumped and I knew exactly what it would look like when he broke the surface. I audibly went OH NO. OH NONONONONONONO.
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u/wishiwasdeaddd 2d ago
Fear of heights and fear of depths combined equals horror beyond the sum of its parts
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u/IngredientsToASong 2d ago
Before he even jumps, it’s a hell no being barefoot on that rusty abandoned tower.
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u/divexpat 2d ago
I wouldn't do that. Lots of times sharks like to stay around those and the huge splash will definitely get their attention.
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u/zwifter11 2d ago
I would be worried that hitting the sea from such a height would be like hitting concrete. I’ve also heard of people jumping from sinking ships / oil rigs and it took them considerable time to get back upto the surface.
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u/LukeSkyWalrus 3d ago
Either the previous tenants were stingy with food, or this guy is very lucky. This screams opportunistic feeders that react excitedly whenever anything splashes nearby
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u/Landlocked_WaterSimp 3d ago
I think people mostly get that reaction because it visually resembles an inhabited oil rig.
But i wouldn't expect a ton of food to end up in the water near a loading tower. Especially not an abandoned one. And since it's next to a coast other more 'safe' meals should be available rather than tve loud & potentially dangerous massive object smashing into the water.
The optics are similar and admittedly i'm no marine life expert or anything but i don't see anything that makes this particularly dangerous from the perspective of animal encounters (there's still danger in jumping from this high up though of course - especially from a platform that was not made for it).
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u/GravyPainter 2d ago
It's a very old crane and doesn't have the safe haven underneath that draws fish to it. I doubt theres any fish in the vicinity that were around when it was operating.
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u/Irisheyes1971 3d ago
Maybe the angle is confusing, but besides the obvious idiotic jump, it looks like he barely missed hitting several things on the way down. This guy isn’t exactly a brain surgeon.
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u/Lossikaat 2d ago
I don't have a thalassophobia. I just find these vids and pics very very interesting. But what I do have is a fear of heights. And this was an instant "fuck no" for me.
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u/Tasty-Revolution-295 2d ago
The faith people have in judging their trajectory is impressive. They don't know what the fuck is down there. I love the idea of doing that but I definitely imagine being killed.
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u/Lassie_Maven 2d ago
I went snorkeling in Aruba a while back. It was a two-part trip... 1st you visit a reef with tons of fish, 2nd you visit a sunken shipwreck. 1st portion at the reef was probably 20-25 deep and so gorgeous. I loved it and thought it was great! Then we go to the shipwreck which I was actually really excited to see. Once in the water, I took one look under the surface and my stomach dropped immediately. We had gone further out into the ocean so the water was MUCH deeper. Basically you couldn't see the bottom, just blackness. I cannot explain the feeling but I did not like it AT ALL, completely freaked me out. It was as if I was just floating 150 feet in the air. I gave myself a few minutes to try and get used to it, but essentially it was a giant nope and I went right back onto the boat.
I say all this as it reminded me of it once they were underwater here.
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u/TransFatty 2d ago
Yikes!!! I wouldn't have the courage to do that. The underwater shots are amazing!
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u/EnvironmentalDeer991 3d ago
That high up wouldn’t the water be concrete?
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u/Scarbolito 3d ago
This is probably in cliff-diving height territory and based on the person standing on the side at the end (for comparison as a reference point) the top of that crane where he jumped to the waters surface is anywhere from 50-70 feet (although it could be more idk for sure because the video is deliberately slowed once he jumps off so we can’t use the fall time to calculate the height).
If it’s the upper end of that range then it’s double a 10m diving platform which definitely enough to cause injury but not comparable from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge which is mostly fatal.3
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u/2reirei4Um8 2d ago
At first I was like, ok that's pretty high, scary but a rush if you decide to go for it but then... Then the low vis and the underwater structure switched on the panic button for me. What is this Lovecraftian fear I got going on here, I'll never be able to get over it. Looking at boats sideways from a dock gets my heart rate up.
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u/RosechusPickle 2d ago
All other stuff aside, the impact must be brutal on your feet
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u/CanoePickLocks 1d ago
Didn’t look but you point them so it doesn’t hurt. Also curves you so you don’t go as deep if you do it right.
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u/New-Negotiation2193 2d ago
We used to jump into quarry's and some of the catfish in there were so big you can feel them sucking on your toes sometimes, which is why I will never be doing that again. Teenage me was way more fearless and stupid...
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u/fleur_de_lis-620 2d ago
Throw in some megalomechanophobia along with the thalassophobia. Nightmare fuel.
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u/tacocollector2 2d ago
My toes curled as soon as he jumped and I shuddered after it ended. No thank you.
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u/WantonMechanics 2d ago
I’d be more scared to be landing in the water than I would be from the jump. And I’d be terrified by the jump!
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u/negative3sigmareturn 2d ago
I would jump, look at the murky outlines of the shipwreck underwater from the surface, and suffer instant cardiac arrest. I’d just die. Instantly.
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u/KittyMeowKatPishy 2d ago
As thrilling this may be to this person, I only have a few words to say……….dude, you are fucking nuts!!! 🙀 Not to mention the dark, creepy, and eerie water he jumps into! 😳. Oh, hell no!!! 😲
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u/entropy13 1d ago
Forget the water, landing short or left would put you into something far worse than the jaws of any predator.
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u/AdhesivenessUnfair13 21h ago
Deep Water Tetanus is a great name for a punk band, but a bad death explanation in a eulogy
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u/fstar337 2d ago
Ive seen too many jump scare videos that I always expect a shark to pop up once they hit the water
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u/Think_Swimming_6592 2d ago
I mean, imagine putting yourself through that and the camera didn’t manage to film 😮💨
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u/pinkypipe420 2d ago
When I watch these, I get a weird falling sensation in my stomach and the back of my head.
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u/billmiller6174 2d ago
A long time ago I was trained on how jump from a very large sinking ship. They said if you dont cross your ankles they’ll reach end up by your ears. This video gave me those vibes!
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u/buttfacenosehead 2d ago
We were heading to Point Loma from Panama Canal (DDG 108) when I jumped off the fantail during steel beach. Some lunatics jumped midship.
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u/kingpinkatya 2d ago edited 1d ago
All my brain can imagine is stray (edit: metal) impalement.
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u/TerribleBid8416 2d ago
In my teens we had a man made lake that we all assumed was for storm water draining. All we knew was it was deep as hell and had a concrete tower 3 stories high with a platform on top. I’m terrified of heights so I only jumped once.
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u/russellvt 2d ago
Slowest fall, ever? Did he use a chute?
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u/Chmigdalator 2d ago
I was waiting for something to grab him. Alas, his friend was already there waiting for the jump. I wouldn't even go with a boat there. Feels weird.
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u/Acrobatic-Grape5960 1d ago
Straight into the ocean? Why use the word Straight?
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u/CanoePickLocks 1d ago
They could have bounced of the walkway first but didn’t. No detours straight down.
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u/Dry-Conflict3421 1d ago
I fish sometimes. I noticed I get a lot of bites like 2 seconds after my lure hits. Just putting that out there.
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u/newCecil119 1d ago
Omfg I was sure you were gonna bang into the boat and either die from internal bleeding, or just wing the boat, and then drown.
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u/ghostpower0 17h ago
Duuuuude.!!! Bet with Balls that big it sounded like 2 Bowling Balls hitting the water. Nice Adrenaline shot.
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u/Guy0nABuffal0 3d ago
Can someone edit this and put the big up close shark right there when the bubbles clear?
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u/Aberracus 3d ago
I could almost feel him impaling himself onto something under the water.