I have a weird fear of water...only if I can't see through it. Pool water, spring water, rivers or beaches with clear water...all fine.....but get me out in water I can't see through and I have to fight off an anxiety attack. I wasn't like that until I was 15, on a day trip with my boyfriend's family on their sailboat down off Ancloat Key in the Gulf of Mexico, and I was swimming to the boat from shore alone, and when I got within 50 feet of the boat, I started to panic thinking of everything that *could* be around me that I couldn't see, and I barely made it to the boat.
EDIT: I forgot to say that I joke about it...I tell people I must just want to see the shark that takes me down before it gets me.
