The Most Frightening Ocean Photos that Provoke Thalassophobia

#1 Alex dawson’s award-winning viciously haunting scuba diving photos

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#2 This seaweed through clear water

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#3 No land in sight?

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#4 Deep water swell

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#5 Dean’s blue hole in long island, the bahamas (via willtrubridge)

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#6 Dragon hole in the south china sea is the world’s deepest blue hole, plunging down 300 m (987 ft)

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#7 105 feet down staring over the edge of a drop off

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#8 Grand turks 700 ft drop

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#9 Because all my friends say this photo of me freediving gives them the willies

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#10 Waves of nazare, portugal

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#11 When you’re swimming and feel seaweed touching your feet….. But actually

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#12 Posted on r/damnthatsinteresting but thought it fit better here

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#13 Standing at the edge

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#14 Thalassophobia and submechanophobia combined into one photo

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#15 The first underwater photograph. At a depth of 195 feet in the mediterranean

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#16 The idea of this tunnel caving in while you’re 60 ft below the surface of the ocean

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#17 I could never

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#18 The drop off

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#19 Words fail me

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#20 Taken off the coast of southern california 2 weeks ago

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#21 Guadalupe island, the most terrifying place on this planet

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#22 The bottom of an iceberg

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#23 Could you live like this?

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#24 A photo of a diver exploring the underside of an iceberg in antarctica by jill heinerth. Apparently, they went inside a cave in this giant iceberg. I couldn’t imagine “cave” diving inside an iceberg that floats in nearly black water

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#25 A huge wave

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#26 This shot was taken off moalboal on the island of cebu, philippines. This guy was free diving with just a mask. I was lucky enough to catch him coming up through a bait ball. Shot with a 5dsr 8-15 mm lens set at 10 mm 200th sec @ f8 2 ysd1’s

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#27 Point nemo, you are closer to astronauts aboard the iss than humanity

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#28 Lake ponchartrain causeway bridge in louisiana

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#29 Aquarius reef base: underwater science habitat

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#30 A swimming ladder to thalassophobia

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#31 For the cost of about $60,000 you can live in a wwi seaport off the coast of england built between 1915-1919

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#32 Orcas in the waves

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#33 A diver riding a giant underwater worm (pyrosoma atlanticum)

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#34 Going through old pics, thought i would drop this here

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#35 A warning sign for scuba divers deep underwater

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#36 You’re off the edge of the map mate… here there be monsters

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#37 This photo from time’s top 100 photos of 2021

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#38 Who knows why people do these things

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#39 An average 1,700 containers are lost overboard every year. Most of them don’t sink, but instead hide just below the surface, held up by trapped pockets of air. Without radar, there’s nothing you can do if you’re going to hit one at night except pray it doesn’t sink you.

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#40 That drop off though

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#41 Serbian combat diver

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#42 Hit an eerie patch of calm about 20 miles from the mainland. Just flat and deep in all directions

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#43 Dean’s blue hole

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#44 An abandoned observation tower at coral island, nassau, bahamas

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#45 Freediving near iglesias, italy

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#46 Worlds smallest inhabited island

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#47 Saw this picture on facebook from the page wonders of the planet earth. A shipwreck being reclaimed by the sea

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#48 The arch in the blue hole, egypt which has infamously claimed up to 200 lives

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#49 When you fear of flying and your fear of water meet eachother

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#50 Posted this on r/submechanophobia but thought it would fit here too. And odd broken pier support that looks just like a hand

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#51 Made my spine crawl just a little

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#52 Calm but eerie

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#53 Oceans drop of for you to remember how small you are

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#54 Floating in a ship

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#55 Into the darkness

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#56 Credit: anatoly beloshchin. River at the bottom of the sea

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#57 I just imagine swimming around this and my skin crawls!

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#58 Sunshine skyway over tampa bay

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#59 A render i made

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#60 Airplane far down

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#61 I thought it was a zipper at first… hard pass

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#62 Two swimmers in the deep sea

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#63 Kayaking in a lake with no fish, 60m/196feet deep in some areas

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#64 This is one of the few photos that actually makes me terrified of the ocean even if this is extremely unlikely to happen

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#65 Kayaking with the giants!

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#66 “uhhhh, there’s more than just kelp and angelfish down here, over”

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#67 British underwater photographer of the year winner 2022

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#68 “the big one”

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#69 An entire street submerged in the deep

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#70 Underwater path. Magical zakynthos caves, greece

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#71 Swimming next to a ship in the open ocean, miles from land

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#72 Apparently this is the sunken goddess sculpture- that’s all i know but look at how big it is!

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#73 This grounded ship looking like a giant meg

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#74 That last point made me double take

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#75 Fresh water always creeped me out more than the ocean. The general low visibility and feeling “enclosed” with whatever was in the water was always gnawing at the back of my mind.

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#76 This would scare me tf out

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#77 Flip (floating instrument platform), a ship flipping vertically to study the behavior of sound waves underwater

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#78 Found this gem on tumblr

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#79 This window in a local library that goes into a creek

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#80 When you can’t find it but it’s right under the boat

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#81 Within the waves

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#82 Thought you guys might like/hate this picture i captured on my drone

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#83 That is a boat

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#84 Suddenly, out of the shadows

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#85 Naval mine found in diving trip

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#86 In the dark of the ocean

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#87 Lighthouse in portugal. This is the time of the year that the waves are massive. Not on my bucket list!!!

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#88 A popular tourist destination: long island, bahamas sinkhole.

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#89 Surfing in thick fog

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#90 Where i live there is a lake created by a meteor which is 115 meters deep. This is a photo our free press released of it. Not a fan

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#91 Figurehead of 500-year-old wreck is a sea monster swallowing a screaming man

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#92 Bahahha *loses consciousness*

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#93 80.5000 s, 94.0000 w by alex konstad

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#94 This massive capsizing ship (mv princess) is easily obscured under what is barely the very surface of the ocean depths

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#95 Me drifting in the sea while a storm is approaching quickly

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#96 This photo is anxiety inducing for some reason

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#97 I figured you would appreciate this

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#98 I used night mode on my phone and…

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#99 I made some art to recreate the feeling from a beach dream i had where the waves were so big they blocked out the sun

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#100 The wreck of the titanic. This photo gives me anxiety…

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#101 This creepy dock i was on tonight

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#102 Exploring the mysteries of the ocean

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#103 Sweden’s new submarine

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#104 This teaser for the new netflix show “1899” gives me chills

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#105 Ah yes, underwater active volcanos and mutant sharks, that’s what the ocean needs, it wasn’t scary enough as is

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#106 Less than a quarter!

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#107 Uhmm the clouds look like the ocean

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#108 An underwater oil rig

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#109 Imagine being stuck here

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#110 What’s down there

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#111 This scene from dunkirk gives me chills

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#112 Saltwater pool by the sea

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#113 Friend sent this from his fishing trip. Thought it belonged here

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#114 Satellite image of dover strait, taken in 2001

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#115 “picture of the sea” by @sinsin08051

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#116 Oh what the hell

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#117 That sinking feeling

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#118 Just took this one and thought you’d like it

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#119 Netting the deep

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#120 The north sea is my favourite body of water

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#121 A “sinking ship” or “low fog”? Either way, no thanks!

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#122 An ais interpretation of thalassophobia: “i surrendered to the tsunami wave that was about to crash upon me”

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#123 Lone diver beneath lake erie, inspecting sensors

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#124 When you fear of flying and your fear of water meet each other

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#125 The eye of s(e)auron.

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#126 A howling abyss

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#127 Deep water swell

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#128 Could that be the megalodon’s den?

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#129 Brine pools are just the scariest shit

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#130 Digital painting by my son illustrating thalassophobia

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#131 Literally a river, under the sea. Feeling like doubling down on your thalassophobia?

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#132 Buoy blues, by me

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#133 Two tiny boats floating over an underwater cliff

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#134 My brother sent me this picture of him at work

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#135 Cleveland ledge lighthouse, falmouth, massachusetts

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#136 My wife easing my mil closer to the water after she saw the ocean for the first time in 10 years and it made her feel “dizzy”

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#137 Here’s a picture of me sitting on a tree branch 120ft deep in a sinkhole

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#138 It’s so weird knowing the hoover dam is this deep. The white line is where the water usually is

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#139 I still don’t understand why i find this image terrifying

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#140 What do you think about eating at this restaurant in norway?

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#141 Seeing the glacier underwater scares the s**t out of me

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#142 This is me in gavdos, greece on the southernmost point of europe. Across the see is libya and nothing else between

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#143 This picture i took from below the diving pier in a lake looks very eerie

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#144 “that is not dead which can eternal lie” – ussr, circa 1970s. A large monument of lenin, sunk in the black sea after the dissolution of the soviet union

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#145 I don’t know if ocean whirlpools are fictional, but damn

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#146 Uss olympia… This photo makes me really uncomfortable

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#147 Last freedive trip – does this give anyone the chills?

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#148 I was having so much fun i forgot how far from our airbnb island i wandered

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#149 Cool image of just how big boats are!

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#150 The arch of the blue hole in egypt which has claimed the lives of an estimated 130 people from 1997-2012

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#151 Have a seat, stay awhile

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#152 This buoy bobs on 20 feet/6m swells in the bering sea waters of alaska – photo by corey arnold

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#153 Into the mist

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#154 Who wants to drive it like this

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#155 These steps from a boardwalk into the atlantic ocean

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#156 This would be seen from the diver’s pov

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#157 “oil rocks” (“the soviet atlantis”) is an industrial settlement consisting of platforms built on the caspian sea, 40 km from the nearest coast of azerbaijan. The city is home to 2000 people today

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#158 Cave divers in an underwater cave near the yucatan peninsula by daniel riordan-araujo

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#159 I took a photo of the caribbean sea

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#160 This image posted by reef on instagram

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#161 Just trying to trigger myself in photoshop

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#162 Lights ‘cross open sea

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#163 Taiwanese athletes in aida diving competition

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#164 The finnish nature photograph of the year by antti strang

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#165 Asked an a. I. To interpret thalassophobia

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#166 An a. I. Generated image using the keyword thalassophobia

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