Did Jaws make you think twice about going swimming?

Did Jaws make you think twice about going swimming?

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No but River Monsters did

Not just Jaws but I can't believe anyone swims out into the ocean past a depth of like six feet. Fuck that.

is this real

Im able to swim in deep swimming pools and i dont mind swimming at the beach but i was always afraid of diving straight into really deep water in the sea it just freaks me out for some reason

I'm afraid of sharks in the pool

Nope, swimming in the ocean is pretty nice

There is this - if you've got a mask on it's pretty freaky looking down and not being able to see the bottom in any direction. Not as fun as glass platforms and bridges, but close.

This. You can't see shit. Fucking anything could be in there

Yep. I know it's completely irrational but being in an olymic sized pool after dark is still freaky. Stupid overactive imagination.

Looks like a giant alligator gar. We used to get them in the canals in my old neighborhood as a kid. Those things were freaky looking.

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dude looks like Gilmour

You dont have to tell me twitce! But during the stone age..

It's called self preservation

>the idea was shark comes to the nearest man and that man starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin'.... sometimes that shark, he'd go away, sometimes he wouldn't go away....

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No, I still like the ocean, especially scuba diving. When diving, sharks are nowhere near as scary compared to surfing or swimming on the surface. I can't tell you how many sharks I've seen while diving, and I've never been fearful. Cautious, yes. But not afraid.

Yes

>American
Of course he was!

Well duh. There's a world of difference between being down below the surface and being able to see around you compared to just swimming on the surface of the water without even goggles on. Like I said here , fuck that.

It's a hoax story just so you know.

the original idea for the kill was much better

Looks horrifying in still shots but they probably couldn't get the stupid thing to bite properly. Those yellow barrels really saved the movie.

no its a shitty blob ripoff in the water.

Well that's a new one. Weird bait I guess.

Being fat made me think twice about going swimming

I still swim in the ocean but I will admit it always makes me nervous, I have seen wildlife (small sharks, dolphins, whales, schools of fish) but never bigger sharks, though I live in an area that gets great whites.

How far out do you swim? I never go more than like 30 feet from shore.

I've never set foot in the ocean, so yeah

Alligator made me afraid of swimming pools

>tfw I read this as "Did the Jews make you think twice..."

I've been on this website too long. Time to die.

if i cant see the bottom im spooked, even in lakes. swimming in 60ft deep water in the caribbean or some shit where its crystal clear is fine tho

>be on vacation
>family goes snorkeling on a reef off hawaii
>as we're getting into the water, the head guy tells us everyone there's a shark feeding area a few hundred yards from the reef, but not to worry about it

me in the back

you act like the similarity wasnt intentional.

Well if the sharks are already being fed you really have nothing to worry about.

Really striking scene for how simple it is. And it holds up.

it was more like "sharks come into the general area to find things to eat". not a comforting thought.

the lack of showing the shark is what made the movie

same here

>movie is 42 years old
>still causes me to get paranoid whenever i go in the ocean
Is Jaws the GOAT horror movie? It basically sticks with you your entire life.

>......tik..........tik............

>post yfw

>one of the scariest moments in film is just a drunk man talking

how the fuck is this movie so damn good?

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yeah but "the shark isn't working. I repeat, the shark isn't working"

Jaws and Alien ruined several summers for me but in totally different ways.

I remember not being too scared when seeing Jaws but it grew like a virus in my mind. Alien fucked me hard as I watched it and wouldn't leave me alone.

They're sprititually similar scares and both involve oceans. I've moved far into the coutnry and now I consider forests and hillsides a different sort of ocean, just a huge roaring dark that we can poke into sometimes but is most terrifying beause of what comes out of it.

that scene was very, very well-written. I cannot imagine the movie being as good if that gets edited out.

if im being honest, i was pretty hesitant about just taking a bath after this movie.

Sharks aren't scary they don't mess with humans and if they do just shove your hand in their gills

>t. Great-White Shark

>tfw have to jump out of the shower after a shark anxiety attack

>this movie made me love sharks and swimming

If anything it made me get a dozen shark toys to play in the bathtub with.

same. I got super into the ocean and marine biology after jaws. I think i considered it a documentary of sorts.

Valerie Taylor was a hottie.
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It went snorkeling off a reef in the Philippines on one of the smaller southern islands, and for some reason we couldn't get the boat close enough to the shallows and had to drop anchor a bit farther away from the reef. Jumped into what looked like pitch black tar and proceeded to have a massive panic attack followed by the quickest 100m swim of my life. Open ocean scares the fuck outta me thanks to Jaws.

i once decided to swim to mthe middle of a largish lake near home and promptly freaked the fuck out upon reaching it. My arms burned for like a day and half from that frantic swim back to shore.

Once I got close enough to the shore when I could stand I had to just stay there and catch my breath for about 5 min I was so fucking freaked out. The snorkeling was fun once I calmed the fuck down, but then we had to swim back to the boat...

I spearfish in kelp beds all the time, at first it was sketchy floating there and watching the kelp strands disappear into the water below, but now I actually find it really peaceful.

That's not too bad with SCUBA gear though. Swimming on the surface without even a snorkel or anything is terrifying.

>All the black guys are on the boat

I don't scuba, it's all freediving. That pic is atypical though, usually the visibility is ~15' unless you're lucky.

>They don't freedive and cave dive

What a bunch of bitches you are. If you don't own a spaceship the ocean is the final frontier. You aren't a man until you've fist fought a creature that is bigger than you on it's home turf. Call me when you've punched a 12 foot long eel in the face.

JAWS > JAWS 3 > JAWS 2 > JAWS THE RIDE > JAWS THE VIDEO GAME > JAWS 4

When you guys say free dive, do you wear goggles or anything? How far down can you even go?

I do it completely naked with no equipment, and I dive like 500 miles down. I'm a pretty cool guy and have many girlfriends and things of this nature.

Yeah it's a Demon fish.
I think toy can find those in India.

No. When I came here from Cuba on a car that was converted into a boat, the sharks were circling us when we were like 2 hours away from the keys. They really don't do anything. One guy was trying to pet the shits when they got really close. My uncle was on another raft and would go into the water to pee and he went into the water while they were near. He was a fisherman and didn't give a fuck about sharks. My mom and I prayed and God heard us and made the sharks go away. This was when I was 6. Afterward , my uncles would always take me boating and I would swim 5 miles off the coast. I saw jaws for the first time when I was 18 and found it a bit silly, but I understand why people wouldn't want to swim in the ocean afterward.

Yes. But still go swimming anyways. Also that movie gave me a vore fetish. Was secretly hoping to be eaten by a shark.

I read that as Jews. Sup Forums has destroyed my brain.

>Not just Jaws but I can't believe anyone swims out into the ocean past a depth of like six feet. Fuck that.

Indeed. I was in Cancun back in 1999 and the water is round about chest deep for a 100 yards or so, then it drops off an underwater cliff and my buddy was blithely swimming way out past that part while I was just waiting for a kraken to come up and grab him.

I want to believe this is real

>Not fighting the Kraken to show Poseidon your true power and appease the Gods

Step it up bro.

Basic set up is mask + snorkel, wetsuit, freedive fins and a weight belt, I have 16 lbs of lead on mine. If you're spearfishing as well you have the gun and stuff. I'm super out of shape so I can only make minute long drops to about 55'.

Oceans are a place of death.
Fuck oceans.

Ah okay. I was wondering if you used a weight belt. That makes more sense.

Hundred of thousands of Cubans have gone through what I've gone through. My girlfriend had it much worse, she went on a boat to Mexico and made her way up to the states from there.

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YOU HAVE TO GO BACK

Based Robert Shaw, RIP.
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kinda, but never heard about shark attacks in this cunt.

No I don't. I'm a citizen. I earned that shit. And Cubans never get deported. Ever. So I came here legally senpai. Thank the Lord for wet foot dry foot

Played water polo and swam competitively as a kid. Anytime I was alone in the pool I'd get this irrational fear. Even when I cleaned the pool in the backyard and had to jump in and roll the pool cover back I'd be convinced there was something ungodly in there.

Did you see that Lars von Trier movie where he says that the forest is the Devil's church?

>never get deported


Who is Elian Gonzales?

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I don't swim unless its in a man-made pool

i played water polo too, i knew that feeling as well

Jaws made me want to get drunk and fuck a shark. Then I got hammered and went to the aquarium and pet a shark and felt how rough their skin is and I was like "Yeah, I'm only doing this once."

>One out of the millions of Cubans living in the United States, including convicted felon who have 0 business being here but are because the US is NOT cooperating with Cuba
>Not and immigration case, but a family law case.
Nice try.

the majority of shark attacks occur in 3 feet of water

I've always found that fact somewhat doubtful but even if it's true, obviously we're not talking great whites.

if you have a weight belt how do you get back up

No but being fat did.

Say your prayers and take your vitamins and Jesus just floats you out of the water brah.

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>be little kid me
>family owned a time share
>it was during the week of my stepfather's b-day
>we'd go every year for a week
>that week was always shark week on discovery channel
>tnt always had a jaws showing during shark week
>hbo always had a deep blue see showing during shark week
>still went boogey boarding until i blistered in the sun

only deep water sharks are overly aggressive. i pet nurse sharks all the time. plus i go noodling so river monsters doesn't do shit to me either.

are great whites even dangerous? at least in comparison to tiger sharks

well it's because the majority of people swim in that depth.

Bullshark and tiger sharks can get in to water that shallow no problem.

Made me think twice about getting in the fucking bathtub.

Yeah true, but I'd still be willing to bet that most attacks in really shallow waters are from much smaller and less dangerous sharks. We're not talking limbs being taken off, probably more like a dog bite.

>only deep water sharks are overly aggressive

the fuck is a deep water shark? I tagged greenland sharks in the arctic and they were pretty chill. Those things live in like 400 m of water.

Most sharks don't hang out in the middle of the ocean, there's nothing out there, it's a water desert. Mainly oceanic white tips cruise around out there.

Great whites are coastal unless they're migrating somewhere.