30 Of The Creepiest Things People Have Seen While Diving

I dive myself but heard this story from a garda diver. In 2010 a man took a test drive in a car with the salesman and in a suicide attempt he drove the car off the pier into the sea and drowned. The salesman managed to escape my breaking the window and swimming to the surface. The divers were dispatched to retrieve the other man's body. This isn't in the news report which I have a link to below for anyone interested. Simply through working in marinas at the time I was able to be part of the conversation with the diver in question. When he got to the car, he said, the man was still facing forward, hands on the steering wheel, eyes wide. He'd been there a couple of hours now, where it gets creepy is when the diver opened the driver door, this combined with the smashed window caused the currents to flow through the car and the man's wide eyed head turned around slowly with the force of it to face the diver.

I once went diving in port Elizabeth, South Africa where it is quite popular to see sharks.

We begin diving and we are quite far from the shore, there’s a cool looking structure under us, we swim towards it to get a closer look and I just start getting this cold cold cold cold feeling running through my body, and that’s when a shark appeared and I physically shat myself from fear.

I have 150+ dive but can't say I've seen anything all that creepy. But I do have a cool dive story to share.

I was diving the Blue Hole in Belize and we were at max depth which is 120 feet. It gets weird at that depth. The light level is getting pretty low and it feels... oppressive. You realize you're WAY down.

There are some lemon sharks that swim around the Blue Hole. They are curious and like to check out divers, but they are harmless. They look mean as hell though and can get 8-9 feet easily.

At 120 feet one of them decided to come check out me and my (now ex) wife. She was a bit in front of me but when she saw the shark beelining towards us she quickly swam behind me and SHOVED me towards the shark. I was NOT expecting that and it took a minute to process what happened, but I felt bad for her more than anything. She was terrified for a few seconds.

I laughed about it later and said at least I knew where I stood with her. She is a good diver but the sight of that 8 foot shark swimming straight at her with a mouth full of teeth triggered her survival instincts. I didn't hold it against her. :)

As I got shoved towards the shark, who was at that point only about 6 feet away from me, he calmly turned to the side and glided right past me and then went on to check out some other divers. We started our ascent and I didn't see him again. It was a very cool experience.

When I was a kid swimming in the lake at summer camp, I dove underwater and I swear I saw someone in SCUBA gear hiding underneath the dock watching us. I told the lifeguard, but he wasn't able to find anyone

I got told a story once by a Maori Language teacher of mine during my time at High School. We didn’t learn much Maori, just listened to stories.

A dam in the Waikato, New Zealand had begun to have visible cracks in the concrete on the outside part of the dam and some drivers were organised to dive down and check the inside submerged part of the dam for damage on that side.

While they were down there, there was the usual debris you would find behind a man made wall which prevents the water from flowing as it would normally do if there wasn’t a dam there.

Turns out what they thought were large logs were in fact huge eels which had gotten to the size of logs due to being prevented from migrating to the sea, where they breed and die. So from being prevented from doing their natural life duties they just get larger and larger.

That would be creepy seeing eels deep down in the water just floating around...

This isn’t my story but I though it was creepy when I heard it.

My great grandfather and great great grandfather ran a diving business together in a small town. This happened a long time ago, probably mid 60s.

My grandma and her friends (one of which was her boyfriend) decided to go down to the beach and all the boys decided to go into the water, and swam near the well-known spot where the current of the water is so strong can drag a boat underwater. The boys went near it and were dragged underwater and killed immediately (they were 14, 15 and 16 might I add). The coastguard were notified and my grandmas Dad and his Dad were called out to retrieve the bodies, once the current had relocated them to a safer diving spot.

The divers went underwater and found the 3 bodies and the description still sits with me even 4 years later I was told:

One boy (the youngest) had his arm torn in such a way by the current that it looked like it had simply been snapped off.

The 15 year old boy was bobbing around with his eyes wide open and chest bloated.

But the 16 year old boy had his skull caved in, where he was obviously smashed against something hard when he was flung by the currents of the water.

Not a personal story, but one about the lake near where I live.

The lake near my home is man made, except instead of flooding a plain or clear cut forest, they just flooded a dense patch of woods surrounding the river, trees and anything else that was there. A combination of this and the wildly unpredictable terrain has lead to hundreds of drownings...and subsequent deaths due to sudden drop offs or people getting trapped underwater. The army corps of engineers refuses to dive on the lake because they have labeled it too dangerous, meaning most of the bodies are still down there, somewhere.

There are also local rumors that amongst the forest trees are buildings and homes, long since flooded and forgotten..

Obligatory not me but.. My dad used to do a bunch of diving around some lakes in Minnesota, but his favorite was diving in the old iron mine pits around Crosby, MN. These lakes are almost always glass clear (except when pine pollen season hits) and exceptionally deep compared to the natural lakes. After a certain depth, theres a layer of silt (I think just decomposed matter) that lays flat and blocks out the little bit of light that gets to it. There was this one pit that my dad went diving into that had these steps leading into a cavern, being at the right depth for the silt to gather, making a very, very ominous looking stairway to nothing. Thus being dubbed: The Stairway to Hell.

I dropped my goggles and was trying to reach down in the river and grab it but I pulled out a sheep skull by its sockets. Wasn’t as creepy in hindsight but 10 year old me was scared.

My time to shine. I was an instructor/tech xr /mixed gas/overhead/the whole shebang when I was a young idiot that was pretty much trying to die. I can remember diving in a spring system in Florida with manatees and bumping into something on the bottom. Manatees just normally chill at the top and are literally like big floating sausages. So I looked down and saw a MASSIVE gator tail swish off into the less than clear water. I’ve done shark dives in the Bahamas, run into bulls, tigers, the whole gambit, but that right there terrified me. Another fun one was I was leading a group off of pcbc on the twin tugs and had a bull shark follow the entire time and no one else even saw it until we came up. That was hilarious to see their reactions.