Brainstorm: What scares you about the ocean?

csufranco 2017-05-31 17:04:33 UTC #21

I see... Ambiguity is always scary

Down_the_Rabbithole 2017-05-31 17:07:18 UTC #22

Well, it depends on what you want to write and how.

A creature feature would be easier to make interesting than being stranded in my opinion. However, being stranded is a very real fear for people. Perhaps you can mix both together somehow. Being stranded a long way from help or civilization while being hunted by some unknown thing.

csufranco 2017-05-31 17:08:54 UTC #23

I see! Genius idea!

How about a post apocalyptic story where part of the US sinks to the bottom of the sea... and a group of treasure hunters were hired by a shady company to go down there and grab something important?

csufranco 2017-05-31 17:10:50 UTC #24

I see.... so this genre will be very similar to the stranded in space genre?

Down_the_Rabbithole 2017-05-31 17:12:32 UTC #25

Go for it! I bet you can make that really cool!

thoughtfulboxful 2017-05-31 17:16:28 UTC #26

Oh, forget outer space. Have you SEEN the trailer for Life?!!

(I'm being funny, but seriously, WHY GO TO SPACE?!!)

csufranco 2017-05-31 17:20:49 UTC #27

what is the scariest underwater creature?

csufranco 2017-05-31 17:22:36 UTC #28

I find this really creepy

Down_the_Rabbithole 2017-05-31 17:27:40 UTC #29

Depends on what you'd find the most scary. There are lots of categories.

For size, whales can be scary. They can crush you like a bug with their tails and bodies without a care in the world.

For predators, sharks and giant squids are used a lot because they can potentially eat people.

There's also lots of toxic creatures like sea snakes or box jellyfish.

Take your pick on which way to die in the sea is the most horrifying.

AlkseeyaKC 2017-05-31 17:43:43 UTC #30

When I was watching the show "I Shouldn't Be Alive" the ones where they were lost out at see upset me the most. I feel like that would be the worst way to go, out on a raft, no cover, no anything but salt water around you, and other grows aspects I'm not going to say here. So being lost out at sea would be freaky. But also just being in it and not fully aware of what would be lurking in the water that could kill me. lol

Mocha 2017-05-31 18:42:31 UTC #31

I love the ocean, but honestly the sheer size of it really freaks me out (though not as much as the thought of floating lost in the endless vacuum of space, thats some scary shit). If you really think about it the ocean is like the worlds biggest "desert" that goes both diagonally and horizontally, with creepy hidden unknown things lurking below, crazy storms, the threat of dehydration despite being surrounded by water, and tons of other things that can kill you. Basically if you're lost at sea the odds are against you.

Migue 2017-05-31 18:44:29 UTC #32

What it's most terrifying of the ocean is how enormous it is, if you get lost in a raft or drifting on your own you would die a long and anguishing dead, sunburn, starvation, thirst, thats more scary than being chomped by a big sea creature.

Also, if you fell deep into the ocean and lost the sense of direction you could be diving deeper insted of going up, so there you are racing to your death thinking that you have at least one shimmer of hope, scary,

TheKawaiiGarden 2017-05-31 20:03:52 UTC #33

Adult Dumbo Octopus -

Black Swallower -

Black Dragonfish -

And of course the classic
Angler Fish -

J.Z.Castillo 2017-05-31 21:58:34 UTC #34

Probably that it's inhabitable as fuck! The pressure is too much, the resources are scarce, the temperatures are crazy high or crazy low, we can't breath under water, it's a VAST SPACE OF PRACTICALLY NOTHING and we still discover new things about it every day!

But the scariest thing is probably that piece of seaweed that brushes against your feet when you go to the beach

Devika 2017-05-31 22:08:34 UTC #35

The sheer depth of it.

Just watch this video. Seriously. And note the depth scale on the side.

joannekwan 2017-05-31 22:08:53 UTC #36

Aside from previously mentioned items, THIS FUCKING THING

it's a bobbit worm if you'd like to know.

Ringarune 2017-05-31 22:16:56 UTC #37

i have a pretty bad fear of drowning, so probably that O^O

punkarsenic 2017-05-31 22:43:00 UTC #38

itll kill your phone.

wont lie, i get nervous and start patting my pockets just thinking about bodies of water these days bc im so precious abt my tech.

also drowning; i think humans have a reasonable penchant for having our feet firmly on something, anything, and you dont get that in the sea. maybe whats really terrifying is that its not ours. like an american in anywhere other than america, were terrified of the ocean because it doesnt adhere to us. were a race of control freaks.

theres also a loneliness. like, especially if you look out to sea at night. its just a void. its very easy to just disappear into the ocean, even in todays age of communication (see point one.) and thats really, really scary.

Kamikaze 2017-05-31 23:00:05 UTC #39

I LOVE the ocean, but if there's one thing that scares me about it, it's the idea of exploring a shipwreck and the wreck collapsing around you and trapping you inside. You'd have limited air supply, no way out and slowly drown to death among a ship that's already housing the dead. So....

yeah.

TheKawaiiGarden 2017-06-01 01:29:15 UTC #40

This, seriously bobbit worms are fucking terrifying...