This Is Indeed a Distrurbing Feeling...

[The_Reaper]

Something very strange is happening to me, my fellow JUBbers....

Earlier today, I was doing some reading on my favourite animal:

The Great White Shark.

However, something strange happened...

As I was looking at the attached photo for this giant creature, which was a rather docile picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Large_white_shark.jpg

I became absolutely terrified and had to close the browser.

Needless to say, I'm still getting that feeling from the picture...As well as other pictures..

What the heck?

I've seen dozens of photos of the Great White and had no problem, even ones where it's more terrifying...

Why is this happening, and how can I stop and see my favourite animal again?

 

[justsimon]

Horrible situation.

Maybe you can look at this one first?

I think that one is scarier.

 

[Nonimus]

I TOTALLY understand Reaper - My mum took me to see Jaws when i was like 4/5 years old and just the sight of them used to terrify me.

These things play on our primordial fears - the lurking, the helplessness etc...

Now i'm too chicken shit to click on the link!

 

[kev]

You just awakened something from your subconscious. I wouldn't worry about it.

When the movie "Jaws" first came out, I was about 13, and I was at a beach resort community in Florida. The film was showing in an old single-screen theater; we were late, so we sat on the second row of a packed theater.

During the scene early in the movie when Richard Dreyfuss's character dives under water at night to investigate a wrecked boat, the head of the dead owner comes out of the hull right at us (great early Spielberg). You could hear and feel the screws holding down the theater seats ripping out of the floor as the whole second row pushed back to get away from this guy.

The next day we went to the beach and NO ONE was going in the water. I decided to venture out to the sandbar, and when I got back to the shore, I looked out and saw a dorsal fin come out of the water right where I had been swimming. I about shit a brick (it was a dolphin, of course).

For about the next year, I could not fall sleep at night with my hand hanging over the side of the bed...I was sure that there might be a landshark in my room.

 

[kev]

...okay, maybe two years.

 

[Nonimus]

LOL....You must be joking!

But ok my 2 cents.....I am a certified scuba diver through PADI and certfied at rescue diving....I personally hope I never encounter one of those beasts! I have seen them up close through 6 inches of thick glass...but that is close enough for me.

I am not a fan of going into the ocean when at the beach because of that movie ....JAWS!

Yeah, I'm have a PADI licence too - and have been diving in the Red Sea, the breeding ground for these wonderful beasts.

In fact, i was shimmying across the side the boat whilst we were half-way to Saudi in Nueiba (near Taba, Israel) and the little Egyptian captain yelled down to me to get to the back of the boat because the sharks here will jump out of the water - then it dawned on me that the ONLY shark (to my knowledge) which will leap out of the water is the Great White - and boy did that fuck me up for the rest of the trip!

And do you have underwater reading glases that are 6 inches thick? Coz Great Whites can't be kept in captivity!?!

 

[Ramindra]

This one is really scary!

http://www.shark.com/

 

[LeoMikey]

Go ahead and laugh, but i've never been able to sit through "Jaws" without either looking away from the screen or turning the channel! I'm 26, so the movie came out before i did (HA!) and i had already heard about pretty much every gory scene before i ever saw it. AND it still messed me up when i finally saw it. What sets it apart from most horror movies is the acting and the script, so i can watch it for that alone. Before i saw that movie i never gave a second thought about going in the ocean, even at night, and nude if i could. I still go in, but it still is in the back of my mind always.
One of my worst nightmares came true when i went diving near the Cayman Islands 3 years ago with my father, brother & some friends and a guide. I had been scuba diving since i was 17, and nothing bad had ever happened. It's so beautiful & fascinating the intial fear you get with every dive fades fast. On this particular dive the fish that had been all around us (incredible colors and shapes) suddenly started to swim away from us. I looked up and saw two sharks above us circling, then several more, then even more. I was nervous, but our guide told us that they usually just swim away. Well, these ones just started to swim lower and lower, FAST! I knew enough to stay calm, but they started swimming all around us. One even rubbed my leg as it swam by. By now i was having a full blown panic attack, i had to get out of there. I had to be held down so i would'nt swim to the surface too fast. The sharks lost interest in us after a few minutes and swam off fast. Out guide and some of my friends had been around sharks before, and they were'nt too fazed. I wanted to beat the shit out of them.

 

[Croynan]

Are your sure you were not watching Jaws 2 by accident?

Because if you were, these are the two reasons why you would be so upset.

Roy Scheider - he even ruined All That Jazz. Talk about flat, lack of depth "acting?"
only the applied sweat in All That Jazz made him look as if he was performing. To this day I still do not know why they use him in that file. But I digress here from Jaws 2 - remember the flat performance in All That Jazz, that was the same one he did in all the Jaws films. And the low shot was 2010 - especially when he finds out what the Russian Ambassador has told his is true - oooow oooow ooooow (somthing sort of like that) - that is a new low in dialogue writing and his delivery matched perfectly.

Lorraine Gary - she should have won the award for the worst performance by a so-called actor in a decade.

People the word is called ACTING.



eM.

 

[tonyboy]

Something very strange is happening to me, my fellow JUBbers....

Earlier today, I was doing some reading on my favourite animal:

The Great White Shark.

However, something strange happened...

As I was looking at the attached photo for this giant creature, which was a rather docile picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Large_white_shark.jpg

I became absolutely terrified and had to close the browser.

Needless to say, I'm still getting that feeling from the picture...As well as other pictures..

What the heck?

I've seen dozens of photos of the Great White and had no problem, even ones where it's more terrifying...

Why is this happening, and how can I stop and see my favourite animal again?

Well man, you must be experiencing something in your life that is causing to fear this particular picture. It is not especially terrifying friend. Not that the Great White is not a terrifying creature, just that that photo is not really that scary.
Could be you have a collective set of images of the shark in your mind, maybe you are seeing them all in this one photo. Who knows.
If the Great White is your favorite animal I figure you will soon be back viewing pictures again.

 

[CaptainJohn]

Horrible situation.

Maybe you can look at this one first?

Terrifying.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Every time I start to stop worrying about them because of the statistics of getting chowed, someone gets chowed or attacked in local waters.

We had one in 2002, called Eve by locals, that used to make a point of gnawing on surf-skis. At one stage she was biting through a surf-ski every second week. A year or so later, some white shark ate someone's granny who'd been swimming the same stretch of beach every morning with other grannies for the last 30-odd years. Last year, a 16 year old surfer had his leg taken off and about a month ago a local life-saver lost a foot when he leaped into the water to save his brother, a fellow life-saver, when they were attacked during a training session.

All this was in the same stretch of water here in Cape Town.

-d-

 

[Nonimus]

Watch the documentaries, read up on the literature, and then ask yourself if you are in any high risk conditions concerning Great Whites.

You might also get statistical data on the scarcity of shark attacks per million swimmers. It's a very low incidence, and even lower due to how many fewer Great Whites exist in comparison to Tiger Sharks and other killers.

You're sooo sure of that, aren't you....

 

[RationalLunacy]

I'm not afraid of sharks.

 

[190E]

Yeah, I'm have a PADI licence too - and have been diving in the Red Sea, the breeding ground for these wonderful beasts.

In fact, i was shimmying across the side the boat whilst we were half-way to Saudi in Nueiba (near Taba, Israel) and the little Egyptian captain yelled down to me to get to the back of the boat because the sharks here will jump out of the water - then it dawned on me that the ONLY shark (to my knowledge) which will leap out of the water is the Great White - and boy did that fuck me up for the rest of the trip!

And do you have underwater reading glases that are 6 inches thick? Coz Great Whites can't be kept in captivity!?!

Actually the Monterray bay has it's second one in captivity right now, there's actually streaming video you can see of the exibit: http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_outerbay/outerbay_cam.asp

In any case, I dont like sharks, they're beautiful and powerful and I respect that, but I dont like them. I have a major problem with anything that can eat me, which is why I stick to cave diving, because the chances of being eaten there are much less. lol

Your fear will go away if you truely love this animal, you will get to like it again, it will just take some time.

 

[Nonimus]

Actually the Monterray bay has it's second one in captivity right now, there's actually streaming video you can see of the exibit: http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_outerbay/outerbay_cam.asp

In any case, I dont like sharks, they're beautiful and powerful and I respect that, but I dont like them. I have a major problem with anything that can eat me, which is why I stick to cave diving, because the chances of being eaten there are much less. lol

Your fear will go away if you truely love this animal, you will get to like it again, it will just take some time.

My goodness - I stand corrected. Fascinating Video!