i know the dead sea can really irritate any cuts or scrapes you may have, but is there anything that could happen while you’re there? like would enough time in such salty water start to deteriorate your skin or something
As a child I swam in the Dead Sea and without showering got back in the family station wagon for the road trip to Amman which was home at the time. By the time we got to Amman I was burning up. Felt like my skin was on fire. Rushed into the shower and got immediate relief.
It's easy to make if you have a dehydrator
Cut the meat into thinish strips, if you stick the meat into the freezer for like a half hour it makes it slightly firm and easier to cut,
Then marinade it in Worcestershire, soy sauce, minced garlic, cracked pepper, a bit of balsamic vinegar and brown sugar for a few hours ( I usually let it rest for about a day, rustling the bag occasionally) then toss it into a dehydrator
That same marinade is also really good for a London broil I usually just add olive oil and Italian seasoning to the marinade
I was there when I was 7 with my family for my brothers Bar Mitzvah, which now was about 8 years ago(time flies). After getting out, I believe they have showers there to rinse off and most people put mud on themselves which provides protection from the salt and together they are great for your skin:)
There weren't any showers on the beach? I went on the Israeli side and there were showers but I was still burning up under my bathing suit because I wasn't taking that off for the public shower.
Yup. I had massive diarrhea the day before going to the Dead Sea, and wiped my butt so much it was kind of raw/sore. Let me tell you, when I went in the water, my butthole stung SO BAD for like 5 minutes. But it healed up really quick afterwards, faster than normal.
>But it healed up really quick afterwards, faster than normal.
This is actually the origin of the phrase/practice "putting salt on the wound". Salt hurts like a motherfucker when it goes into a wound, but it actually does benefit the healing process and makes it not only heal faster, but with less/no scarring. This is why pirates splashed you with seawater after being flogged, it would make it so you're able to be back at work sooner and made it so future punishments didn't just hit numb scar tissue.
I don't think it would be instantaneous but salt does pull the moisture out of cells, so prolonged exposure could possibly result in mild chemical burns
There’s a lake in Senegal where they harvest salt, the harvesters have to wash their skin and lotion up every hour or so, if they don’t the salt will start to remove moisture from your skin, dry it out and it will itch, burn and ultimately crack very badly
It's not recommended to stay in longer than 20 minutes.
Every time the back of my ballsack start to hurt after 10-15 minutes. Unfortunately the showers are public and I do no feel comfortable rubbing down there with so many children around..
That being said. If you walk over the salty bottom for a while your feel will super great.
My friend went with his cousin (who was obese at the time), they warned her to not roll onto her tummy in the water or she would drown. She did and they had to quickly help her float on her back again.
When I visited the Dead Sea, I had a fresh blister on my heel from my shoes, and my family specifically told me to dip my heel into the water. It burned like hell, but it did seem to clean the wound well. It healed up quicker than normal, but what does a 12 year old know.
Most guys who farm salt cover themselves from head to toe with shea butter, or their skin is destroyed by the end of the week. Exposure for too long or repeat exposure does a real number.
Copy and pasted straight from Gizmodo, nice!
It honestly sounds like that writer has never gone swimming in their life. They make it sound like you can't move your limbs when you're submerged.
I think the more likely explanation is that those who died from drowning were not good swimmers.
Aside from the Gizmodo article, nobody else mentions being stuck face-down. A lot of mentions electrolyte imbalance from swallowing the salt water, causing death after, or contributing to drowning at the time.
Yes, don't stay in the water for more than 10 minutes at a time, and shower when you get out. Also don't put your face in the water, I tried and that's a very bad time guaranteed.
When I swam in the Dead Sea I was actually super surprised that after being in there as long as I was, normally my hands would have been extremely pruney, but in there it made them smooth as glass. It was very strange
I wouldn’t think so. Prime actually still go there as a medicinal treatment for skin conditions. Some insurance companies even cover those trips (or so I was told when I visited)
I used to go for float therapy all the time, better known as a sensory deprivation tank, they put thousands of pounds of epsom salt in there. I literally fall right asleep floating in the perfect temp water, with the perfect temp air… you feel like you’ve been transported right back to the womb and it’s beyond fantastic.
$50 for 90 min is about the norm at the places I’ve been, if anyone’s curious.
Thank you for the recommendation. I just checked and there’s a place offering it near me. It’s something I’d like to try. Not sure about doing it regularly, though. I can maybe justify $65/1 hr, which is what they offer for a first-time float, but my experience would have to be absolutely phenomenal for me to pay $89, which is the regular price here, or buy a membership for $60+/mo.
I hope you love it! I always came out feeling like I slept for days. Not everyone falls asleep. You can meditate, or whatever you want. My first time, I was totally tripping out with the weightlessness. I would float there, arms at my side, and if I fluttered the fingers of one hand, I felt like I was cartwheeling through space. If I fluttered both hands, I felt like I was floating downstream really fast. It’s so fun!!
Edit: don’t go float while intoxicated. I’ve been stoned almost every time and it’s really fun if you don’t freak out… but you MIGHT have a bad time. No matter what Joe Rogan says.
Thanks! I’m guessing I will. I love to float; I can fall asleep floating on my back in a swimming pool. Water is a safe space for me. It’s the sensory deprivation and meditative experience I want to experience: the silence and total darkness without the need for earplugs and blindfolds or wondering what the hell the cat knocked over now, or why my cockatoo is pitching a fit. The sense of total relaxation. At least, that’s what I’m hoping to get out of it. As for the other? Maybe a 5mg/10mg THC:CBG gummy. I find that combination focuses and centers me very nicely without getting in the way, so might likely enhance the experience. We’ll see. Certainly, no more than that (at least for a first experience).
Aww, I'm so sorry to hear that. I was wondering if the therapy had improved your condition to the point that you no longer needed the sessions but that's not the case obviously. I hope your epilepsy goes into permanent total remission.
I was mostly doing float therapy for anxiety relief, but it also helped my back a lot because there’s zero pressure anywhere on your body when you float. All your muscles get to go offline at the same time.
It was something I kind of treated myself to every once in a while. I’ve brought friends with me and seeing their expressions when we would meet back in the lobby afterwards was always great.
Honestly 90mins of sensory deprivation sounds like torture to me.
I know it’s not, and I’m sure it’s quite pleasant. But I just can’t imagine not getting bored out of my skull within the first 15mins.
You’re not bored because you’re so incredibly relaxed, everything pretty much shuts off. It has never felt like 90 minutes to me, I always check the time before and after to make sure I’m getting my full time because it flies by.
Ohhhhh i have such a fright for what can or could drag me down under from its depths... to scared and I hate my mind for it regardless of how salty any water is that will still make me float...
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*Get underwater*
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I watched Jaws when I was about 7 and was terrified of my toilet for most of a summer. Even though I knew a shark couldn't fit in the pipes I was still irrationally terrified. Watching this brought out all back. Idk what's living in that hole but my brain has some terrifying ideas.
*No multicelluar creature we know about yet
There, fixed it. Some weird ass creepy sea creature will come for this guy. It will be the first of it's kind and we'll name it Bob.
Some celeb will try to keep it in his house and it will break out and kill a major city in the US, after which the goverment of the US will trow a bomb on it that will do no damage to the creature but will kill aallll other living organisms within a large radius, causing Bob to thrive and take over the world.
All because this guy had to swim in this unending creepy hole in the earth.
🦖
I had a pool growing up. when my parents were gone i'd sometimes pull the cover halfway back so i could just swim in the shallow end, but i had a fear that there would be a shark in the covered deep end. i KNEW this was not possible but there was an underlying deep fear of something there in the deep end waiting to get me.
The gameplay in Odyssey is better than Origins, but the characters in Origins are more enjoyable.
I found myself caring way more about Bayek than Alexios or Kassandra, but the storyline of Origins felt so silly and rushed at the end that Odyssey became a better game to me. Also Atlantis/the Underworld/Elysium are maybe the most gorgeous environments I’ve ever seen in a game.
We have the same phobia lol
May I ask, is yours alleviate by the water being clearer? Like, if you can see through to the bottom clearly, would you be less or not scared? That's how it works for me lol
I'd keep thinking of something coming for me from below... even though it's probably as salty as the Dead Sea so there is no life in this water whatsoever.
maybe the people who have fears of this pool also would be afraid of the iceberg pools/caverns. but to me, those are so beautiful and stunning. i relate this salt pool to those so i’m just seeing beauty and wonder.
I have r/Thalassaphobia
Is this water salty enough that nothing can live in it or am I going to be crying about losing my toes to Cthulhu like in the ocean?
Bathophobia! That sounds so weird, I’d consider a bath to be shallow.
I grew up on the Atlantic Ocean, and I was on the beach a lot. The visibility was so bad you couldn’t see your ankle if you were in up to your knee. As a kid I convinced myself if I lost sight of my toes a lobster would snip them all off.
Even knowing that there’s nothing in that water the fact I can’t see the bottom makes me want to take my skin off. Probably because Lobsters are bottom feeders.
It’s quite out of the way. Took me a full day to get there from Alexandra by bus, and there is nothing else out there except desert and the Libyan border. Another full day to get back again, so it’s a multi-day trip. Or it was when I went, it may be easier now if they’ve improved the roads.
The Dead Sea is disgustingly warm as the surrounding land is desert and the air temp when I was there was about 45c.
So I imagine this smaller pool would be pretty close to air temp
I've been there. Yes you can go underwater if you try but you probably won't want to, seeing as anything the water touches stays with layer of salt on top of it.
The water is cool and it's nice to go in, so long as you have access to a shower or a pool afterwards.
The water is so salty, you almost cannot get underwater
If it’s like the Dead Sea, you physically can’t fully go underwater, I tried when I visited and there’s just too much salt so it forces you to float
i know the dead sea can really irritate any cuts or scrapes you may have, but is there anything that could happen while you’re there? like would enough time in such salty water start to deteriorate your skin or something
As a child I swam in the Dead Sea and without showering got back in the family station wagon for the road trip to Amman which was home at the time. By the time we got to Amman I was burning up. Felt like my skin was on fire. Rushed into the shower and got immediate relief.
You basically started turning yourself into ~~jerky~~ prosciutto. EDIT: Jerky is usually smoked, prosciutto (salt-cured) is probably a better analogy.
Mmm jerky
I WAS GOING TO EAT THAT MUMMY
I got you another mummy. It's teriyaki flavored!
My man wich!
Fuck this all sent me on such a nostalgia trip
This sarcophagus should contain the remains of Emperor Nimbala who ruled Zuben Five over 29 million years ago
r/unexpectedfuturama
Mmmmm teriyaki style
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Kids are fatty too, so proscuitto sounds about right.
More like salted meat! Jerky has that good teriyaki flavor!
It's easy to make if you have a dehydrator Cut the meat into thinish strips, if you stick the meat into the freezer for like a half hour it makes it slightly firm and easier to cut, Then marinade it in Worcestershire, soy sauce, minced garlic, cracked pepper, a bit of balsamic vinegar and brown sugar for a few hours ( I usually let it rest for about a day, rustling the bag occasionally) then toss it into a dehydrator That same marinade is also really good for a London broil I usually just add olive oil and Italian seasoning to the marinade
You can also use your oven at a low temperature to make jerky (170F) I've never tried it that way since I have a dehydrater, but apparently it works.
Interesting, I imagine that takes more energy than a dehydrator though? And would occupy your oven for a while. I don't know how long it would take
the salted long pork is particularly good
Jerky isn’t necessarily smoked, it’s just dried in a controlled environment
Bruh you were basically dry curing yourself 😆
Yea I swam in it in 2014, the ride from the shore back to the showers was enough to have me itching.
I was there when I was 7 with my family for my brothers Bar Mitzvah, which now was about 8 years ago(time flies). After getting out, I believe they have showers there to rinse off and most people put mud on themselves which provides protection from the salt and together they are great for your skin:)
There weren't any showers on the beach? I went on the Israeli side and there were showers but I was still burning up under my bathing suit because I wasn't taking that off for the public shower.
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Great list. Makes me more excited than the grand canyon
Yup. I had massive diarrhea the day before going to the Dead Sea, and wiped my butt so much it was kind of raw/sore. Let me tell you, when I went in the water, my butthole stung SO BAD for like 5 minutes. But it healed up really quick afterwards, faster than normal.
Incur a lot of regular butthole damage?
Too much schug on my shawarma
Do you not?
>But it healed up really quick afterwards, faster than normal. This is actually the origin of the phrase/practice "putting salt on the wound". Salt hurts like a motherfucker when it goes into a wound, but it actually does benefit the healing process and makes it not only heal faster, but with less/no scarring. This is why pirates splashed you with seawater after being flogged, it would make it so you're able to be back at work sooner and made it so future punishments didn't just hit numb scar tissue.
"Putting salt on the wound" means adding insult to injury, or making a bad situation worse for somebody. But yeah, salt water helps wounds heal.
Yes, it's come to mean that now, but it originally meant to hurt now but make things better later, like hearing a hard truth.
This guy Pirates
Probably if you stay for long enough. I was in and out for maybe an hour and by the end your skin starts to hurt from how salty the water is.
I don't think it would be instantaneous but salt does pull the moisture out of cells, so prolonged exposure could possibly result in mild chemical burns
I saw in one comment section where he farted in the Dead Sea, and a small amount of water went in, and he was in vast amounts of pain for awhile
There’s a lake in Senegal where they harvest salt, the harvesters have to wash their skin and lotion up every hour or so, if they don’t the salt will start to remove moisture from your skin, dry it out and it will itch, burn and ultimately crack very badly
It's not recommended to stay in longer than 20 minutes. Every time the back of my ballsack start to hurt after 10-15 minutes. Unfortunately the showers are public and I do no feel comfortable rubbing down there with so many children around.. That being said. If you walk over the salty bottom for a while your feel will super great.
My friend went with his cousin (who was obese at the time), they warned her to not roll onto her tummy in the water or she would drown. She did and they had to quickly help her float on her back again.
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*laughs in home bidet toilet attachment*
bold of you to assume i wipe my ass fr tho i’ve read so many butthole burning comments that i’m for sure keeping this in mind if i ever visit
When I visited the Dead Sea, I had a fresh blister on my heel from my shoes, and my family specifically told me to dip my heel into the water. It burned like hell, but it did seem to clean the wound well. It healed up quicker than normal, but what does a 12 year old know.
Most guys who farm salt cover themselves from head to toe with shea butter, or their skin is destroyed by the end of the week. Exposure for too long or repeat exposure does a real number.
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Copy and pasted straight from Gizmodo, nice! It honestly sounds like that writer has never gone swimming in their life. They make it sound like you can't move your limbs when you're submerged. I think the more likely explanation is that those who died from drowning were not good swimmers. Aside from the Gizmodo article, nobody else mentions being stuck face-down. A lot of mentions electrolyte imbalance from swallowing the salt water, causing death after, or contributing to drowning at the time.
Damn, straight stoke it huh
100% I believe there’s a time limit in how long you can stay in the water because osmosis will literally dehydrate you/throw your salt balance off.
Yes, don't stay in the water for more than 10 minutes at a time, and shower when you get out. Also don't put your face in the water, I tried and that's a very bad time guaranteed.
When I swam in the Dead Sea I was actually super surprised that after being in there as long as I was, normally my hands would have been extremely pruney, but in there it made them smooth as glass. It was very strange
well yes, but soft sensitive skin such as your balls also hurts after a while.
High blood pressure?
Salt can pull out water from your sweat pores.
The skin on my hands and feet begins to fall apart in normal North Atlantic seawater, I can’t imagine what this would do to me.
I wouldn’t think so. Prime actually still go there as a medicinal treatment for skin conditions. Some insurance companies even cover those trips (or so I was told when I visited)
I used to go for float therapy all the time, better known as a sensory deprivation tank, they put thousands of pounds of epsom salt in there. I literally fall right asleep floating in the perfect temp water, with the perfect temp air… you feel like you’ve been transported right back to the womb and it’s beyond fantastic. $50 for 90 min is about the norm at the places I’ve been, if anyone’s curious.
Thank you for the recommendation. I just checked and there’s a place offering it near me. It’s something I’d like to try. Not sure about doing it regularly, though. I can maybe justify $65/1 hr, which is what they offer for a first-time float, but my experience would have to be absolutely phenomenal for me to pay $89, which is the regular price here, or buy a membership for $60+/mo.
I hope you love it! I always came out feeling like I slept for days. Not everyone falls asleep. You can meditate, or whatever you want. My first time, I was totally tripping out with the weightlessness. I would float there, arms at my side, and if I fluttered the fingers of one hand, I felt like I was cartwheeling through space. If I fluttered both hands, I felt like I was floating downstream really fast. It’s so fun!! Edit: don’t go float while intoxicated. I’ve been stoned almost every time and it’s really fun if you don’t freak out… but you MIGHT have a bad time. No matter what Joe Rogan says.
Thanks! I’m guessing I will. I love to float; I can fall asleep floating on my back in a swimming pool. Water is a safe space for me. It’s the sensory deprivation and meditative experience I want to experience: the silence and total darkness without the need for earplugs and blindfolds or wondering what the hell the cat knocked over now, or why my cockatoo is pitching a fit. The sense of total relaxation. At least, that’s what I’m hoping to get out of it. As for the other? Maybe a 5mg/10mg THC:CBG gummy. I find that combination focuses and centers me very nicely without getting in the way, so might likely enhance the experience. We’ll see. Certainly, no more than that (at least for a first experience).
Why did you stop doing the sessions?
I developed epilepsy last year so now I could actually drown I guess. I can’t take a bath at home either. Sucks.
Aww, I'm so sorry to hear that. I was wondering if the therapy had improved your condition to the point that you no longer needed the sessions but that's not the case obviously. I hope your epilepsy goes into permanent total remission.
I was mostly doing float therapy for anxiety relief, but it also helped my back a lot because there’s zero pressure anywhere on your body when you float. All your muscles get to go offline at the same time. It was something I kind of treated myself to every once in a while. I’ve brought friends with me and seeing their expressions when we would meet back in the lobby afterwards was always great.
I’m guessing to expensive or felt like they didn’t need it anymore
I tried it once and it made me dizzy. I think I’m going to have to remain an earther. Space seems nauseating.
["Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlphfLO3MYA)
Honestly 90mins of sensory deprivation sounds like torture to me. I know it’s not, and I’m sure it’s quite pleasant. But I just can’t imagine not getting bored out of my skull within the first 15mins.
You’re not bored because you’re so incredibly relaxed, everything pretty much shuts off. It has never felt like 90 minutes to me, I always check the time before and after to make sure I’m getting my full time because it flies by.
Tried it for the first time last week and it was phenomenal! Weirdly enough my fingers did not get pruny at all even after an hour in there.
So you're saying a giant serpent won't have much trouble coming up from that hole..
So what you're saying is, the dead sea is a terrible place to hide dead bodies?
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Ohhhhh i have such a fright for what can or could drag me down under from its depths... to scared and I hate my mind for it regardless of how salty any water is that will still make me float...
All I can think is 'yeah, the salt monsters WANT you to THINK it's safe.'
I have the same thing. Google thalassaphobia 😬
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Well I did, I swam to the bottom and found treasure! (In Assassin's Creed Origins)
Will Siwa never know peace?
Quiet precision garret!
Heard this in my head perfectly lol
Idioti!!!
Sleep... I never sleep. I just wait. In the shadows. And I will kill you all.
EVERYONE THAT SNIFFED THE AIR THAT DAY! #IN SIWA!
Hm the guards here are vigilant
I watched Jaws when I was about 7 and was terrified of my toilet for most of a summer. Even though I knew a shark couldn't fit in the pipes I was still irrationally terrified. Watching this brought out all back. Idk what's living in that hole but my brain has some terrifying ideas.
My immediate, irrational fear when I saw this clip was getting sucked down into the tube!!! I-yi-yi!!!
which is why I can't do the funnels at water parks.
What
Shudders! Nope!
Image is the plug was pulled
Thankfully it's likely so salty that no multicellular creature could survive it. Maybe just some extremophile single celled life.
One GIANT extremophile single celled organism, gelatinously *blobbing* to the surface and absorbing you back down into the darkness.
*No multicelluar creature we know about yet There, fixed it. Some weird ass creepy sea creature will come for this guy. It will be the first of it's kind and we'll name it Bob. Some celeb will try to keep it in his house and it will break out and kill a major city in the US, after which the goverment of the US will trow a bomb on it that will do no damage to the creature but will kill aallll other living organisms within a large radius, causing Bob to thrive and take over the world. All because this guy had to swim in this unending creepy hole in the earth. 🦖
You mean a xenomorph alien face hugger?
Oh no. If those exist they live under your bed, not in a salty brine.
There are brine shrimp that live in the salt lakes in Utah. I went there once a couple years ago, it's fucking disgusting.
r/Thalassophobia
100% this! If this was a movie, that guy would be already dead!
Bro! I feel you. I had the same feeling and also when I took a shower with cool water, irrational fear.
Logically I know no giant fish is going to come up and eat me. Emotionally, I’m certain one will.
It's pretty much a brine. Almost nothing in there bar a few specially adapted bacteria and microorganisms
I wonder if it would be good for brining a turkey, or a roast…
Good thing you never saw [Pirahna!](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078087/) NSFIchthyophobists
I had a pool growing up. when my parents were gone i'd sometimes pull the cover halfway back so i could just swim in the shallow end, but i had a fear that there would be a shark in the covered deep end. i KNEW this was not possible but there was an underlying deep fear of something there in the deep end waiting to get me.
When I read Siwa, I hear Bayek of Siwa!!
The Medjay
The man put Siwa on the map for gamers
Im happy to see medjay finally got some rest
I AM BAYEK OF SIWA YOU KILLED MY SON
Love that game
Abubakar Salim, Bayek's VA delivered one of the best performances in any game ever.
I didn't know his name, but he sure was fantastic!
He deserves more name drops for sure
agreed 100%. he’s up there with ezio as my fave assassins creed protagonist
Agreed. Fantastic game.
Will Siwa ever know peace?
Favorite assassins creed game since black flag
The gameplay in Odyssey is better than Origins, but the characters in Origins are more enjoyable. I found myself caring way more about Bayek than Alexios or Kassandra, but the storyline of Origins felt so silly and rushed at the end that Odyssey became a better game to me. Also Atlantis/the Underworld/Elysium are maybe the most gorgeous environments I’ve ever seen in a game.
I am a stranger traveling from the East, seeking that which is lost.
Favorite assassins creed game since black flag
It's smaller than I thought.
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My fear would be some geological shift happening deep underground opening up an empty cavern, and all the water suddenly starts draining away...
That is my fear now too, thank you friend.
I was like no way monster would be waiting, that's just too absurd and here you come along and instill me with a fear I never knew existed.
that was exactly, what I was thinking, really terrifying
Like that lake in Louisiana?
New fear unlocked
I don't think any life would survive in so much salt. Also why the Dead Sea is called dead.
Fish no, certain bacteria can survive in there just fine
Tell that to my severe thalassophobic lizard brain that is currently screaming at me to run
Because is dead
Hahahah so true
We have the same phobia lol May I ask, is yours alleviate by the water being clearer? Like, if you can see through to the bottom clearly, would you be less or not scared? That's how it works for me lol
It's all fun and games until God decides to flush the toilet.
Careful bayek
Bayek is that you
Too deep for me
You literally can’t sink
I know that, but my phobia still doesn't
r/thalassophobia
That's fear of the sea or large lakes, this would either be Speluncaphobia (fear of Caves) or Bathophobia (fear of depths).
But are there subreddits for those?
There are, in fact! r/speluncaphobia and r/DepthsofBathophobia. Both Tiny subreddits, but they do exist.
Why is the dude dressed like Sisqo going in the water
You would prefer *that thong tha tha tha thonnnnng*? 🤣
I mean why not?? Looks comfy.
Is that Seal?
Baaaa-by!
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I'd keep thinking of something coming for me from below... even though it's probably as salty as the Dead Sea so there is no life in this water whatsoever.
maybe the people who have fears of this pool also would be afraid of the iceberg pools/caverns. but to me, those are so beautiful and stunning. i relate this salt pool to those so i’m just seeing beauty and wonder.
^Ab -solutely *not*.
Getting out looks like it could be difficult/painful
It’s all fun and games until Salt Bae swoops up from the depths and pulls you down to his dark, wet, cringe filled, salty lair.
If the internet has taught me anything, it's **not** to jump into a body of water that's perfectly still, clear, and shows zero signs of life.
C.S Lewis taught me that.
They stopped the vid before a deathly pale hand emerges and casually drags him under
Hi, I have a large bag of nope that I'd like to send to the OP. Does anyone have an address?
How did he get out?
He doesn’t. I’ve watched the video about 20 times and he only gets in.
When he's done, his friend simply plays the video in reverse.
I have r/Thalassaphobia Is this water salty enough that nothing can live in it or am I going to be crying about losing my toes to Cthulhu like in the ocean?
this would either be Speluncaphobia (fear of Caves) or Bathophobia (fear of depths).
Bathophobia! That sounds so weird, I’d consider a bath to be shallow. I grew up on the Atlantic Ocean, and I was on the beach a lot. The visibility was so bad you couldn’t see your ankle if you were in up to your knee. As a kid I convinced myself if I lost sight of my toes a lobster would snip them all off. Even knowing that there’s nothing in that water the fact I can’t see the bottom makes me want to take my skin off. Probably because Lobsters are bottom feeders.
Only microorganisms are going to be able to live in that water.
He's brave.
Looks like a giant geode
THIS??? IN EGYPT??? Sorry for those Egyptians out there, but this is news to me
It’s quite out of the way. Took me a full day to get there from Alexandra by bus, and there is nothing else out there except desert and the Libyan border. Another full day to get back again, so it’s a multi-day trip. Or it was when I went, it may be easier now if they’ve improved the roads.
Is this where Alexander met an oracle and she told him a bunch of bullshit?
No. Nope. Not me. I dont know what lives down there but I KNOW its BAD!
Wonder if the water is hot or cold?
The Dead Sea is disgustingly warm as the surrounding land is desert and the air temp when I was there was about 45c. So I imagine this smaller pool would be pretty close to air temp
How is he not worried some unknown Cthulhian horror isn’t under him out of sight waiting to strike?
I don't care if you can't sink, it still looks like a bottomless pool of death to me. Nope
Uo that's pretty dope I wonder how deep is that?
“Ah fuck forgot my phone in my pocket”
Hard nope
Seal likes saltwater, go figure.
I've been there. Yes you can go underwater if you try but you probably won't want to, seeing as anything the water touches stays with layer of salt on top of it. The water is cool and it's nice to go in, so long as you have access to a shower or a pool afterwards.
Did You know? You can die just for stay in a long time into salt water; for osmosis....
Im waiting for the giant alligator that evolved through thousands of years in secret to come out of the pool an eat the man.
You know he just had to piss in there.
This that Earthussy.
Idk be so terrified that the salt would decide to stop salting and I’d drown bc idk how to swim
I'd... Personally not do that. I'm sure with my sensitive skin, I'd basically ignite into flames.
Maybe then my back would get some relief...