Val suffers from selachophobia? (I had to look up the term; never new it before!) I had some fears as a kid - I'm almost positive it stemmed from the music video for "If This Is It" by Huey Lewis & The News. The video shows the band at the beach, and there is a shark fin circling around in the water where people are swimming. (plus Huey windsurfing in a suit, which is pretty scary as well.) At the end the shark fin pops up in the sand and starts moving towards a family with cary music playing. I was probably four or five when I first saw it, and I know it gave me nightmares.
The cure for me was being in Florida and seeing a newscast of helicopter views of a beach where I had been earlier in the day. Hundreds of people splashing around in the water. and not much farther out the silhouettes of hundreds of sharks. They weren't too interested in chomping the humans. :-)
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The cure for me was being in Florida and seeing a newscast of helicopter views of a beach where I had been earlier in the day. Hundreds of people splashing around in the water. and not much farther out the silhouettes of hundreds of sharks. They weren't too interested in chomping the humans. :-)
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