SH3 triggering phobia of shipwrecks.

mmm...Dönitz · 01-23-09, 08:34 AM

I was wondering if anyone shares my phobia of shipwrecks, sinking ships and the undersides of ships?

Judging by this link, plenty of people do but rather oddly it doesn't have a proper name.

I don't exactly go frantic and break out into a cold sweat at the sight of a submerged or semi submerged object, but I definitely feel extremely uncomfortable. Having said that I'm fascinated by documentaries about famous wrecks, but I could never dive on one myself (even if I could dive). Truth be told I wouldn't even want to swim over the location of a wreck.

Having just started playing SH3, I was surprised to find that even some of the in-game graphics spooked me out. Using free view to zoom around underwater and view my own sub sent a shiver up my spine, and the event camera showing those large ships sinking make me feel very uncomfortable indeed. Oddly enough watching them sink from above the waves is fine! On the odd occaison when I get close enough to a target to see its hull below the waterline through the periscope, I don't like that much either!

LOL! Some submarine captian I'll make at this rate!

Does anyone else on here have this affliction, game-induced or not?

Dowly · 01-23-09, 09:10 AM

Yeh, I dont feel that comfortable seeing underwater objects. Especially at our summer cottage where there has been few cases of drowning. In one of the cases a guy whose cottage is some 10km from ours was driving his boat and hit something; a body that was semi sunken in rather shallow water. In few of the cases the bodies have never been found, so whenever I see, say, a big rock on the bottom it gives very creepy feelings. Especially as the water is quite murky in the lakes of Finland, so you only see the rock/object faintly. Like you, I dont go berserk over it, but just gives me the chills.

Weiss Pinguin · 01-23-09, 11:50 AM

Every so often I'll get the chills from watching a ship sink in SH3, or from watching my submarine underwater with freecam. I'm sure it stems from my phobia of sharks and giant fish and other certain aquatic life. Makes going to aquariums great fun.

The funny part is that marine life fascinates me.

I wonder how many real-life U-bootsmen and submariners battled phobias like that?

FIREWALL · 01-23-09, 12:23 PM

Once in awhile I get a little airsick in my flight sims.

Of course it could be too many brews also.

UnderseaLcpl · 01-23-09, 10:34 PM

I've never had a problem with submerged object per se, my fears ae generally confined to squishy, slimy, stingy, marine lifeforms like jellyfish and mollusks.

One thing that endlessly fascinates me and gives me chills, though, is watching a ship break apart and slide into the bottomless depths in GWX. There's definetly something interesting about the frigid, lightless, deep.

edit-btw, I love the screen name.

A Very Super Market · 01-24-09, 01:10 AM

I'm not afraid of sinking ships, but I am afraid of that sensation when you follow them down. This is most apparent when I find icebergs, and freecam my way to the underside. The ice stretches on for an eternity, and then it suddenly stops, which always makes me jump out of my seat. No idea why

Weiss Pinguin · 01-24-09, 02:22 PM

That might be what gets me. It always makes me jump when I'm following a sinking ship down and it suddenly reaches the bottom. The other day I was watching my flooded submarine drift to the bottom in Dangerous Waters, and just watching it sink gave me the willies. Got a bit of a shock when the ocean floor appeared through the fog.

Wintahs · 02-10-09, 02:57 PM

Yep,I know what you're talking about OP.

Kapt Z · 02-10-09, 04:13 PM

Normally I would say 'no' I don't get the creeps looking at wrecks.

However, after seeing dive footage of the wreck of the GRUNION (a US sub lost to enemy action in WWII) I was a little creeped out. Just seeing the mangled remains of the sub, imagining her violent end and that of her crew....

It was a little like looking at forensic photos of a murder scene.

02-12-09, 04:08 PM

As a kid I didn't swim around a lot in the ocean that much because there were a couple of big factories around where I lived, saw a couple of 'mutated' fish and didn't want to go swimming after that. Well, I think they were mutated. Since then the waters have been cleaned up a lot though due to stricter regulations.

Yea I know what you mean, the game manages to capture the whole process of a ship sinking in those conditions very well. However, I'm not really as much afraid as interested in the whole thing. Not many games give such a view, making SH3 and 4 (haven't yet played it) pretty unique.

Pillar · 02-17-09, 09:51 AM

lol - I have this too. Nothing ever has happened to me in my life that would have given it to me as far as I can remember, so it's a mysterious thing. I get panic just seeing a large rock below me while swimming in a lake. A sunk boat would be killer. It's really strange. Nothing on a game (e.g., SH3) has ever done it for me though.

Cohaagen · 02-26-09, 07:44 AM

I thought I was the only one who had this odd phobia!

I think it stems from when I was a small child. I was fascinated by the sea and my father bought me Robert Ballard's book on the wreck of the Titanic, which he had recently discovered. I literally had to cover my eyes every time I turned a page, and gradually peek at the photographs one section at a time. Over 20 years later it still frightens me, especially that famous shot of the ship's bow looming into view out of the darkness. Shipwrecks, particularly warship wrecks, alternately fascinate and terrify me. There is a photograph of the wreck of the Karlsruhe, sunk at Jutland, which shows a part of the ship where there are a number of human skulls amongst the wreckage - it is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, but every so often I have to look at it!

Kapt Z · 02-26-09, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Cohaagen

I thought I was the only one who had this odd phobia!

I think it stems from when I was a small child. I was fascinated by the sea and my father bought me Robert Ballard's book on the wreck of the Titanic, which he had recently discovered. I literally had to cover my eyes every time I turned a page, and gradually peek at the photographs one section at a time. Over 20 years later it still frightens me, especially that famous shot of the ship's bow looming into view out of the darkness. Shipwrecks, particularly warship wrecks, alternately fascinate and terrify me. There is a photograph of the wreck of the Karlsruhe, sunk at Jutland, which shows a part of the ship where there are a number of human skulls amongst the wreckage - it is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, but every so often I have to look at it!

Do you remember that photo from TITANIC that shows a pair of leather boots lying on the bottom? You can tell they were worn by a victim and after all these years lying on the bottom all that is left of the man is his boots.

Stealth Hunter · 02-26-09, 05:17 PM

It's not so much the prospect of seeing the wreck that disturbs me, and the same can be said for the actual dive. It's what's in the water that scares me more than anything...

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Originally Posted by Kapt Z

Do you remember that photo from TITANIC that shows a pair of leather boots lying on the bottom? You can tell they were worn by a victim and after all these years lying on the bottom all that is left of the man is his boots.

Stealth Hunter · 02-26-09, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Cohaagen

I thought I was the only one who had this odd phobia!

I think it stems from when I was a small child. I was fascinated by the sea and my father bought me Robert Ballard's book on the wreck of the Titanic, which he had recently discovered. I literally had to cover my eyes every time I turned a page, and gradually peek at the photographs one section at a time. Over 20 years later it still frightens me, especially that famous shot of the ship's bow looming into view out of the darkness. Shipwrecks, particularly warship wrecks, alternately fascinate and terrify me. There is a photograph of the wreck of the Karlsruhe, sunk at Jutland, which shows a part of the ship where there are a number of human skulls amongst the wreckage - it is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, but every so often I have to look at it!

Looking at the pictures of the Titanic, I can understand why it would scare a kid. I mean, just look at the state of the wreck and the utter blackness of the ocean that far down. The lights cast eerie shadows upon the skeleton of the great ship, and the rusticles that have formed on it transform it into a cavernous-like thing, that one knows was constructed by humans on the surface almost a hundred years ago.

Things like photographs of actual sinking ships and bodies and things being destroyed has disturbed me since the end of the war in 1988. Skeletons, however, I don't mind them as must (the same for mummies). Ever seen that picture of the HMS Queen Mary blowing up at Jutland? That one bothers me, a lot.

01-23-09, 08:34 AM	#1
mmm...Dönitz Seaman Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 32 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	SH3 triggering phobia of shipwrecks. I was wondering if anyone shares my phobia of shipwrecks, sinking ships and the undersides of ships? Judging by this link, plenty of people do but rather oddly it doesn't have a proper name. I don't exactly go frantic and break out into a cold sweat at the sight of a submerged or semi submerged object, but I definitely feel extremely uncomfortable. Having said that I'm fascinated by documentaries about famous wrecks, but I could never dive on one myself (even if I could dive). Truth be told I wouldn't even want to swim over the location of a wreck. Having just started playing SH3, I was surprised to find that even some of the in-game graphics spooked me out. Using free view to zoom around underwater and view my own sub sent a shiver up my spine, and the event camera showing those large ships sinking make me feel very uncomfortable indeed. Oddly enough watching them sink from above the waves is fine! On the odd occaison when I get close enough to a target to see its hull below the waterline through the periscope, I don't like that much either! LOL! Some submarine captian I'll make at this rate! Does anyone else on here have this affliction, game-induced or not?

01-23-09, 11:50 AM	#3
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Every so often I'll get the chills from watching a ship sink in SH3, or from watching my submarine underwater with freecam. I'm sure it stems from my phobia of sharks and giant fish and other certain aquatic life. Makes going to aquariums great fun. The funny part is that marine life fascinates me. I wonder how many real-life U-bootsmen and submariners battled phobias like that? __________________

01-23-09, 12:23 PM	#4
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Once in awhile I get a little airsick in my flight sims. Of course it could be too many brews also. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

01-23-09, 10:34 PM	#5
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've never had a problem with submerged object per se, my fears ae generally confined to squishy, slimy, stingy, marine lifeforms like jellyfish and mollusks. One thing that endlessly fascinates me and gives me chills, though, is watching a ship break apart and slide into the bottomless depths in GWX. There's definetly something interesting about the frigid, lightless, deep. edit-btw, I love the screen name. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

01-24-09, 01:10 AM	#6
A Very Super Market The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Deep in the Wild Canadian suburbs. Posts: 1,468 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm not afraid of sinking ships, but I am afraid of that sensation when you follow them down. This is most apparent when I find icebergs, and freecam my way to the underside. The ice stretches on for an eternity, and then it suddenly stops, which always makes me jump out of my seat. No idea why __________________ The entire German garrison of Vanviken, right here in your thread!

01-23-09, 09:10 AM	#2
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Yeh, I dont feel that comfortable seeing underwater objects. Especially at our summer cottage where there has been few cases of drowning. In one of the cases a guy whose cottage is some 10km from ours was driving his boat and hit something; a body that was semi sunken in rather shallow water. In few of the cases the bodies have never been found, so whenever I see, say, a big rock on the bottom it gives very creepy feelings. Especially as the water is quite murky in the lakes of Finland, so you only see the rock/object faintly. Like you, I dont go berserk over it, but just gives me the chills.

01-24-09, 02:22 PM	#7
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	That might be what gets me. It always makes me jump when I'm following a sinking ship down and it suddenly reaches the bottom. The other day I was watching my flooded submarine drift to the bottom in Dangerous Waters, and just watching it sink gave me the willies. Got a bit of a shock when the ocean floor appeared through the fog. __________________

02-10-09, 02:57 PM	#8
Wintahs A-ganger Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Belgium Posts: 79 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Yep,I know what you're talking about OP.

02-10-09, 04:13 PM	#9
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 909 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	Normally I would say 'no' I don't get the creeps looking at wrecks. However, after seeing dive footage of the wreck of the GRUNION (a US sub lost to enemy action in WWII) I was a little creeped out. Just seeing the mangled remains of the sub, imagining her violent end and that of her crew.... It was a little like looking at forensic photos of a murder scene.

02-12-09, 04:08 PM	#10
OneToughHerring Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	As a kid I didn't swim around a lot in the ocean that much because there were a couple of big factories around where I lived, saw a couple of 'mutated' fish and didn't want to go swimming after that. Well, I think they were mutated. Since then the waters have been cleaned up a lot though due to stricter regulations. Yea I know what you mean, the game manages to capture the whole process of a ship sinking in those conditions very well. However, I'm not really as much afraid as interested in the whole thing. Not many games give such a view, making SH3 and 4 (haven't yet played it) pretty unique.

02-17-09, 09:51 AM	#11
Pillar Electrician's Mate Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 138 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	lol - I have this too. Nothing ever has happened to me in my life that would have given it to me as far as I can remember, so it's a mysterious thing. I get panic just seeing a large rock below me while swimming in a lake. A sunk boat would be killer. It's really strange. Nothing on a game (e.g., SH3) has ever done it for me though.

02-26-09, 07:44 AM	#12
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I thought I was the only one who had this odd phobia! I think it stems from when I was a small child. I was fascinated by the sea and my father bought me Robert Ballard's book on the wreck of the Titanic, which he had recently discovered. I literally had to cover my eyes every time I turned a page, and gradually peek at the photographs one section at a time. Over 20 years later it still frightens me, especially that famous shot of the ship's bow looming into view out of the darkness. Shipwrecks, particularly warship wrecks, alternately fascinate and terrify me. There is a photograph of the wreck of the Karlsruhe, sunk at Jutland, which shows a part of the ship where there are a number of human skulls amongst the wreckage - it is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, but every so often I have to look at it!