There are many phobias associated with water bodies and Thalassophobia is one of them. It refers to an intense and often unnecessary fear of the sea. It also includes fear of being in large bodies of water, fear of the vast emptiness of the sea, and fear of distance from land.
Whale Sharks
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.The whale shark holds many records for sheer size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. The species originated around 60 million years ago.
Sunken Yacht
João Lara Mesquita, a Brazilian Journalist, and entrepreneur, once owned a yacht that went by the name ‘Mar Sem Fim’, which literally translates into English as ‘Endless Sea’. This yacht was manned by four crew members and then it met with its untimely end on the 7th of April in 2012.
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