The Ocean is Pretty Scary

Others Stories | Jan 26, 2020 | 8 min read
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The Ocean is Pretty Scary

The ocean can get pretty scary sometimes. Especially for me, being a deep sea diver. Basically, I go in with a few other people and just have fun. Sometimes we run into dolphins, sometimes seals, and the occasional shark. They're not bad though. The media portrays sharks in quite the wrong way, they're pretty peaceful for the most part. Well most of them. But sharks are not what this story is about. This is about something worse. Something far, far worse.
So some other people and I were going on a dive. Nothing too interesting so far. Just the regular dive. We were going down into a cave. I've been through it several times on solo dives enough to where I know my way around well enough. We were just looking around for a while. We went deeper into the cave, being sure to pressurize ourselves whenever we need to.
We spend a while looking at some small schools of fish and some coral but nothing too incredible happens. Some of the more notable things we saw before the real shit hit the fan, were a sea turtle and a nurse shark. We went down a bit more and came to an area I hadn't really checked out. Now since this was a recreational dive, we decided to check the place out.
It was a medium sized area of the cave where there wasn't water. It was like if you swam up and just popped your head out of the water, just air. It was pretty cool. We lit up the room with our flashlights and just relaxed for a bit. I took out a waterproof radio, I keep with me during dives just in case, and turned it to the local news station.
"Shark spotted next to the shore near the beach front. Possibly a great white. Stay out of the water and be safe out there," the lady said before looping the message. "Well fuck," I said after it looped a second time. "What're we gonna do now?" one of my friends Derin said to me. "I guess we'll just have to stay here. It shouldn't last for too long, probably only an hour or so. We can stay longer just to be safe." I say. And that's what we did.
So whenever our time was up we were somewhat sick of our little prison, even though we could've left at any time. We put our gear back on and hopped back into the water. We were swimming up towards where we came in when we saw something. I looked closer at it and it was something moving slowly from the other left side of the hall we were in. I don't know if "hall" is the correct term or not but that isn't really important.
Joel, another one of my friends that went with us, screamed. As loud as you could scream underwater though, the noise a muffled one but sure as hell still audible. It was the fucking great white. It was right fucking there. I felt like my heart stopped seeing it there. I've never come across one in person like that before. It didn't notice him or us though, it's front side continuing to move forward across the exit of the hall.
What happened next didn't make anyone scream. Not even a whimper. We just stayed silent. Horribly silent. Coming out from the left side of the exit was a great white. But not a whole great white. Only about half of it. Something had fucking taken the other half off. What the fuck does that? Not fucking whales. The ones what might don't come up this far. And the whales that do live up here eat fucking plankton. so what the fuck could've done that.
We made our way out of that area. The blood would probably draw in a few more sharks and we didn't want to be around when that happened. Needless to say, we hauled ass out of there. We were coming out of the cave when we found the other half of the shark. It had been about thirty minutes since we saw the other half. Where were all the other sharks? There were none. Come to think of it there weren't any fish either. Where the fuck did the fish go?
Something was wrong. Horribly wrong. The fish never just disappeared like this. It's just not something they do. We came out of the entrance to the cave and started to head up when I felt something. Not really something physical, more like a sense I guess. But I sure as hell felt it. Something was below us. Not something small. Not something big. It was fucking huge. I looked down and saw a shadow. It wasn't moving, just stationary. Completely fucking still.
It isn't a shark. Sharks can't stay still cause they'll fucking die. After a few seconds, everyone else looked down too and saw what I was seeing. We were in shock. What the fuck was it? It started heading for us. I could see the light reflecting off its eye. I still don't know what that eye belonged to. It was unnatural. Something I don't ever want to look into again.
We headed for the fucking cave. What else could we have done? We made it in and turned around to see James swimming up towards the surface. We all screamed at him to come back but it fell upon deaf ears. James kept going. Since nobody was doing anything I started to make my way towards the exit. I got out and headed for James. I eventually reached him and grabbed his ankle. He screamed.
I pulled him down with me and as I was doing so, I looked down. To see nothing. And not like an, I can't see anything nothing, just, it wasn't there anymore nothing. James and I made it back to the cave safely and took a break for a second. About three minutes passed and we thought about just heading for the boat but something stopped that idea from escalating any further. The back half of the shark was gone and the fish weren't coming back. So we just decided to stay put.
We were about to head back to the little open area we found when I felt something in the water. Like if you move your hand next to your face underwater and you feel the motion. I looked toward where it came from and there it was. That fucking eye. In the mouth of the cave. It took up about half of the 18-foot wide entrance. We hauled ass to the open area.
About thirty minutes later we heard something come up from the water. It was the shark's front half. How the fuck did it get over here? That thing must have wanted us to see it. It must have known we were scared and it was trying to heighten our fear. Hours passed and I was sure that we were running out of oxygen in our tanks. We had them set by the entrance to where we were. I turned around to see how full they were but they were gone. They were fucking gone. Our equipment was just gone. We were fucked.
We argued for a while. Stephan eventually stopped our bickering though because he thought it wasn't getting us anywhere and it was just fucking with our heads. We cleared our minds, as best as we could, and decided that we would leave. We would just swim and hope for the best. Trust me, I'm aware that isn't anywhere near to a solid plan but we were nervous and out of our minds for the most part. After all, we stood a better chance all going at once than one of us going at a time and dying over and over again.
We took a few extra minutes to prepare ourselves. Physically and mentally. We did the hyperventilation trick and then we took the dive. As we swam towards where the exit was remembered to be, we kept checking around us and behind us but we saw nothing. Eventually, we made it up to where we first saw the front half of the shark. We looked around before making our way out into the mouth of the cave.
We were running out of air. And fast. We needed to get out of here. We swam out into the abyss. Looking up you could see the surface. We took off. We were almost there when that fucking feeling came back. That feeling where you know something's there but you just can't see it. It's burning at the back of my head. I looked to my left to see James. To my right, Stephan, and in front of me, Derin.
I turned to look at James, my eyes burning from the salt. I was feeling my consciousness starting to slip away. Then I saw James disappear. Falling fast into the deep darkness of the unknown. And I couldn't do anything to stop it. I just kept swimming, the surface getting closer and closer. I'm almost fucking there. I thought I was gonna die out here, but I made it. My head popped out of the ocean and I sucked in the biggest gulp of anything I had ever taken and relished every second of breath I was able to experience.
For a while, I just sat there stunned. James is fucking gone. Then Stephan and Derin popped up too. We were all scared shitless. We took a second to regain control of ourselves and swam to the boat after we partially recovered. Stephan and Derin got up the ladder first and as I was getting up I felt something grab my ankle and I was yanked underwater by the thing that took James.
It let me go. I climbed back up. It pulled me back down and thrashed me around. I climbed up yet again only to be pulled back under. This time deeper. I fought back and tried to hit it but I was released before it let me come into contact with itself. I swam to the top and climbed up the ladder. Stephan and Derin grabbed my arms and lifted me onto the boat. I sat there coughing for a while before looking back down.
What I saw will haunt me for the rest of my life. I was able to see how truly huge this thing was. It was almost double the size of our boat. But what I saw after that was what haunts me. I saw James. It had his body with it. It was showing it off. My friend since middle school. It was waving his body around in the water like a fucking child brags to his friends by waving his new toy in the air. It was fucking taunting us.
After a while of sitting on the deck of the boat, I actually looked at myself. My leg from below the knee was fucking gone. There wasn't any blood though. It was fucking cauterized. That's what scared me the most about it. I'm doing okay now though, I have a prosthetic. Still doing PT though. It's a small price to pay to be able to walk again.
We never figured out how our tanks disappeared like that. They were just gone. If you ask me to explain, I won't be able to. I just know that one second they were there and the next, they were gone. The Coast Guard found James' body floating out in the ocean after they searched the cave for evidence. It was bloated and he had something on his back. From the pictures I got my cousin to get access to since he's a cop, they looked like fucking eggs. I don't know what they really are, but if they are eggs. What the fuck is going to hatch out of them?
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Rajni Jan 27, 2020

good one

Meraj ahmed Jan 27, 2020

Nice Story :)

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