I actually have this. Couldn’t put my finger on it growing up, but I vividly remember getting scared by submerged objects. I remember swimming out to a buoy in a lak and then getting really freaked out when I looked down and saw the chain going down into the abyss. Such a freaky feeling.

My biggest fear is diving somewhere in the Atlantic and opening my eyes to see a gigantic propeller or the front of some giant shipwreck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

My biggest fear is I'm swimming in a big body of water and my foot brushes against something hard under me. I look down and it's a rusty airplane under the water. I'd simply freak tf out.

I don't have submechanophobia, but I totally get it and can see why manmade objects or machinery underwater would be scary. I do find them unsettling.

its a weird feeling both having submechanophobia yet still having a fascination with shipwrecks and even the occasional thought of learning how to dive to face my fears to visit said wrecks

I grew up going to a man-made lake that was once a small town. When the creek feeding the lake was damned under a FDR-era program, the entire town was submerged. As a kid, the idea of an entire town at the bottom of the lake I was swimming in left me with nightmares. But, more specifically I find the sight of bridge pillars disappearing into dark water the most terrifying. Such a large man made object spanning the entire depth of a body of water is so chilling. Swimming next to one makes me feel claustrophobic. Really the sight of any man-made object descending to the the bottom of a body of water, like a dock cable or boat anchor, gives me chills. All I know is these man-made objects are not supposed to be there and I perceive it as a threat.

Underwater animateonics is spooky, but also the thought of submerging my head underwater and hearing the motors and hydraulics working freaks me out too

I have Aquamechanophobia specific to pool drains and lights, so I can totally understand how someone with Submechanophobia could be affected by things as such.

I dont think i have the whole phobia, idc about shipwrecks itself, but the propeller gets me every time.

I think one reason why people have submechanophobia and not a fear of man made structures in space is that we meant to put the space stations and satellites up there but we didn’t plan to put boats and such underwater

I am deathly afraid of vents inside swimming pools. Especially the ones that make waves in surf-n-swim. Even black tiles in pools freak me out. I’ve had nightmares being stuck in some kind of underground tunnel filled with murky water. There was giant black vents under my feet with pool lights illuminating the holes beneath the vents. Terrifying.

I've gone through like half the comment section and it surprises me no ones talked about Subnautica. i love the game but some of the sunken parts of the aurora that you can find scare the crap out of me when all i can see is the flashing of the broken wire and the slight outline of the aurora's pieces. another part that unsettles me is the wrecked architect building, so many places that theoretically you could get trapped in. don't get me started in the back of the aurora

I have submechanophobia, but I only have the fear of bottoms of boats/propellers, buoys, mines, chains, but I don't have a fear of flooded buildings. I am also very fascinated with the ocean, ocean life, and shipwrecks, so I land on both sides. Weird

Your videos are amazing... Even without being too complex, the way that your voice and the images is completely insane. I can feel goosebumps with your other videos. Keep on doing these videos.

I wonder how many billionaires have this now

I remember being absolutely repulsed by toilet tanks and buoys from a very young age. When I was about 9, my mom took my two younger siblings and I to a water treatment facility and I was TERRIFIED of the dark, deep, dirty water with rusty stairs and gears partially submerged. I could never understand why, especially as a kid who always loved the water. More recently, while snorkeling in Bali, I was completely fine (if anything, relaxed) looking down into where the shallow beach met the deep trench, but almost lost it upon seeing the rope of a boat anchor just a few meters from me. CRAZY that so many others feel this way too! I will say I have more of a specific aversion rather than a phobia per-se.

The weirdly specific stuff that freaks my out the most is the bottom of ships, giant ship propellers, and the sight of a chain/ rope coming from a bouy or anchor just going into the abyss

I think for me it can be described most with: say you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat. Something gets twisted around the propellor and you are asked to jump in the water and swim under the boat to cut it loose.

My particular submechanophobia sub-group is being utterly creeped out by shipwrecks or underwater vehicles, but only when seen from the surface. And weirdly enough, the knowledge that, for example, a buoy has a chain reaching all the way down to an invisible bottom below it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I should hop on the subreddit and see if there's a word for my version out there too.

I know I have this because two scenes from movies that stuck with me throughout childhood and scared me deeply were 1. The sinking plane in incredibles 2. The sinking CAT in happy feet Absolute chills and I've never forgotten them