lol. I was snorkeling close to the coast near Kuaui (Hawain Island). I had ventured past where the rocks drop off into some deep areas. At first I thought my seeing a huge school of fish swimming frantically was a cool and rare thing to witness. I started toward the school to see if I could get in it when the thought occurred to me. "Why do large schools of fish swim so frantically? And how do schools of fish play in the food chain."
I too became a bit frantic and started moving and looking for potential predators. I was smart enough to dive rather than surface initially while I worked back toward the safety of the rocks. I never saw anything that looked dangerous. But on my way in, a Parrot Fish snuck up on me and took a nibble at my gold neck chain (jewelry). Scared the $hit out of me and I called it quits.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
I have a better one. I grew up in the ocean in South Florida. My dad would take me fishing, snorkeling or diving just about every weekend from spring through fall.
About 10 years ago, I took my wife snorkeling in the Keys. I hadn’t lived there in 5-10 years.
She was terrified of sharks. I told her we would only see nurse sharks.
So we are on a reef with deep channels (30ft) between large coral formations (5ft deep). I see a shark on the bottom and in my no contacts stupor it looked like a nurse shark. I dive down to point it out and get about 10 feet away and realize... nope. 6 foot bull shark.
I come to the top. The shark came right at my stomach when I leveled out and turned away about 1 foot from me. Then it and 2 others escorted us back to the boat until I had the balls to slap the water a bunch of times.
I take my boat to the keys from Atlanta 2-3 times per year and that experience has forever changed me. I used to be fearless. I no longer lobster or spearfish alone.