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An extremely sad part of Yuri’s story is the man who discovered the camera and video wished he never had saying “If I had known the footage existed I’d have flooded it.”, because “his mom has it now - she has the footage of her own son drowning”.

honestly i wouldn't mind a series dealing with phobias like this, it's a very insightful way to view fears we may not understand

NGL, one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard is when saturation divers talk about how every so often they’ll be made aware of some absurdly massive unknown creature that is just beyond the work light, generally through the feeling of water displacement caused by their movement. Like these are people whose job is to do extreme construction/demo work on the ocean floor, there’re pretty high up on the badassery scale, and they all basically are like “don’t think about it or you’ll go nuts cause the reality of what’s out there makes Lovecraft look like Cousteau.”

I hope in the next Fear of the Deep installment we'll discuss the dangers of going deep in a vessel made from camping supplies and a joystick.

Yuri's footage was definitely the most horrifying part of this video. Knowing that we were seeing a man's final moments through his own point-of-view is chilling.

The story of "The thing that drifted ashore" is surprisingly "happy" for that author. All of those people apparently survived and presumably were able to get treatment for their mental illnesses and were cared for. Their families got to see them again. Nobody that was on the beach dies or mutates into a horrific monster or gets hurt when they inspect the corpse.

Scuba diver here! At one of my favorite dive sites (the North Wall off Grand Cayman), the reef suddenly drops off and goes down a mile into the depths. As you descend down the wall, you can turn away from the coral to look off into the open ocean. There’s nothing quite like looking off into the blue, then looking down into the black abyss, and realizing just how small you are…

this video hits so different after the news of the “titan” titanic submersible being missing. especially the iron lung game. so eerie

Junji's art style is so iconic I recognised it at a quick glance despite having never read that particular manga. The man is a legend in the horror community

The story of Yuri just reminds me that: 1: Don't go diving, or atleast not alone. 2: Don't go caving. 3: Don't go underwater caving.

I don't think I've ever felt more helpless and afraid of the ocean than when watching that footage of Yuri. The idea of being so deep into the ocean on a limited air supply and not having a way back up is actually horrifying almost beyond my comprehension. I can't imagine the panic he must have been experiencing. I think that I have more of a fear of being trapped and knowing I'll suffer a slow death than I do a fear of the ocean. I've always been terrified of spelunking and getting stuck or wedged in a cave, too.

I’m obsessed with these mini-documentaries. Please never stop, Nexpo.

I feel horrible for Yuri. While he would have been cautious and listened to warnings and not gone alone, it always sucks to learn a lesson in the worst way possible. And knowing his mother now owns and has watched a tape of her own son drowning. It's heartbreaking

The ocean is literally the only thing in the world that scares me shitless. Thank you for the update and I hope you're feeling better. ❤

You know, Nexpo narrating a nightmare fuel horror manga is something i never knew i needed till just now. Wish i could see more of this in the future.

Anyone who grows up around by he ocean knows that it’s the ultimate danger. My father was a deckhand and would say “nothing on earth comes close” to the raw power of the ocean. It’s frightening.

I grew up in Hawaii and would swim a lot in the ocean, one time while snorkeling, which I did a lot, I went a little too far out and the ground just dropped. The fear I felt was so intense...

hearing Yuri’s wheezing breaths was CHILLING. Poor dude didn’t know what was coming. The fact that there video of his last moments is so horrifying.

One thing to note about Yuri Lipski’s Buoyancy control device was not functioning properly which is why he sank so fast. He was also wearing a weight belt with the added weight of the camera. It wasn’t necessary the ocean that kept him trapped at the bottom it was his own equipment.

As someone who has gone diving, I can say that when I heard you say that he emptied his BC, I began to tear up because you can only do such a thing at shallow depths where you want to adjust your buoyancy. This poor man started sinking faster and faster and probably hit the floor with a thud. I really hope his family is okay

The Yuri video genuinely filled me with dread. I think mostly because you can just hear the exact moment he realizes he is no longer in control of the situation and instinctively tries to scream, perhaps with the hopes that someone/anyone would come to his aid and help bring him back to the surface. I'm sure with enough time he could've figured out how to do this on his own. Instead, the ocean mercilessly suffocated him after just a few minutes.

I love the ocean, but it is very daunting to think of it’s mystery. Every time I get in the ocean there’s always this subtle fear.

I feel like a video much like this but about space would also be fascinating. The vast expanse of it can be terrifying

seeing this after the Oceangate sub is a different type of horror

"One thing has, and will always hold true. *The ocean.. is **_fucking. horrifying."_* Such a simple sentence and yet it, _especially_ in Nexpo's voice, perfectly encapsulates everything

One thing I never see anyone praising Nexpo for is his writing skills. His vocabulary, choice of words, and the flow at which he narrates is just superb. I am surprised you haven't been asked to narrate films yet or at the very least voice act in television or video games. Absolute stellar work once again and the fact that it's FREE for us to enjoy is mind-boggling.

Wow, the timing of this coming up on my feed is crazy. Just so happens to coincide with an oceanic expedition disaster that seems eerily similar to the aforementioned game - Iron Lung. Can’t imagine how the crew of the Titan sun must have felt…

darkest lost media vol 2 was taken down for copyright (from "Daniel J. Robinson" YT says) damn, I was gonna watch that today

Man ... That ship sailing over that diver filled me with such visceral fear. And to see that spinning propeller I was praying "don't get sucked in." Well done Nexpo.

ive never had thalasaphobia, but that yuri story sent chills down my spine. being in that scenario, trying to inflate your boyancy device to no avail must be horifying. knowing damn well that youre gonna drown, alone and 300 feet below sea level. i cant even imagine how me must've felt in that situation.

I'm always so sad that there are almost no deep sea huge monsters movies. Either all ocean horror films are on the surface, or are deep sea with human sized threats, like nothin would scare me more than being on the ocean surface and seeing a monster the size of a continent, how has Hollywood barely capitalizedon this

The rock you threw into that lake when you were a kid, you may be the last person to ever touch it

the video of yuri has haunted me for years. the painful wheezing as he gets further and further away from the surface is gut wrenching

To the people who don't know, are not familiar, or who aren't fans of Junji Ito, The Thing That Drifted Ashore is one is his "lighter" stories. The guy's a sweet and wholesome human, but his imagination and his stories are insanely dark and horrifying.

Even though I’m terrified of the ocean, I also think it’s one of the coolest things in existence. The video footage and photographs in this video are both terrifying as well as fascinating, incredibly beautiful, and inspiring to me. This video right here is a work of art. This must be one of my favorite videos that I've ever watched on UKposts.

I never thought I had thalassophobia until I played subnautica. Something about hearing the whirring of your ship die down as you slowly come to a stop, shining a light into an abyss of nothing, and hearing the roars of leviathans in the distance that sound both near and far.. thats been the only game I’ve ever played that’s given me a *real* fear of dread

as somebody who grew up on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, it's such a terrifying concept that is so insanely dangerous and so many people underestimate it. it's pretty common for people here to just get on a small boat and never be seen again, or for horrifying accidents to occur. it's so scary, even to somebody like myself who can just look out of their window and it's right there.

I dunno how to express how much I love morbid channels like this. The 80s, 90s VHS effects, the soundtrack and the soothing narration are so good, feels confy and nostalgic, yet so damn morbid

As someone with both a deep seated fear of open water thats backed up with personal trauma, and also a morbid fascination of what lurks down there, i wish this was longer. 40 minutes only felt like 15. Well done nexpo.

I had a friend that was a diving instructor, and he had a few horror stories. The one that really stuck with me was about training a new person, and one of the final tests is to take them out to a featureless area at night and let them dive. So off the person goes, and they begin to dive down, everything seemed fine, the person was in good health and his girlfriend was waiting back at the hotel. Then the new diver stopped talking. And they kept diving down... The instructor said they tried to stop them, but lost sight as it got darker and deeper. The person never came back... They just went down into the depths. So I look up the story, and apparently a small number of people do this every year in training, they see the depths and just swim towards it. Like that urge to jump when your standing on a cliff edge. It makes me wonder how fragile the mind is, and scares the hell out of me that there could be a thing that I could see that just makes me snap...

It might sound morbid but I'm kind of glad that Yuri was most likely experiencing narcosis during his final moments so that he wasn't fully conscious/aware during his death bc being of sound mind during that would have been 10x scarier

I almost thought I was dreaming that nexpo uploaded a new video. Glad to see its not just me

This video couldn't be more relevant right now.

As always, Nexpo is not crafting videos, but a whole experience. Thank you!

One of the scariest moments in my life was snorkeling in Mexico. It was exactly how you described. The tide was pulling me out, but I didn't mind until I saw the drop off. So much darkness. The light went so far down, but you could see so little. Now, I prefer to go to the mountains over the beach. It is just such a vulnerable and empty place to be.

Bruh your darkest lost media 2 video got copyrighted right when I was in the middle of watching it. Daniel J. Robinson thanks a lot dude

In light of recent tragedy, this video will need a future update.

I got caught in a riptide before at 25, and I honestly think more people need to know about them. They are terrifying, I was swimming by myself and there was no one really around me. I was probably 10 feet out from shore and swimming. I was careful to stay where I could touch the ground with my feet, I didn't want to go much deeper. Now, I had learned about rip tides for a long time and had it pounded into my head time and time again by my grandparents and parents to swim parallel to shore to get out of it. When I realized I wasn't able to touch the bottom, I tried to swim forward, realized the people on shore weren't getting any bigger and I figured if I went under and tried to swim I might have more power. So I tried it, and surfaced and again I was just getting further from shore. It didn't occur to me I was in a rip tide - and that is how you get killed. Your instinct kicks in and tells you to swim to shore, and you try. The riptide kills you by exhausting you and then you drown. I ended up about 100 yards from shore after fighting for a while to get closer and then it finally hit me that this was a riptide, and finally started swimming parallel even though a pier was there and there were people fishing (the fishing attracts sharks so they tell you not to swim near them.) I was able to make it most of the way to shore, and thankfully I was able to catch the pull of some waves. I'll tell you, I didn't even care that I was thrown into the shore by a wave and nearly knocked over by another one. There was nothing as good as feeling the sand under me and knowing I was on dry land. I had to crawl because I couldn't walk, crawled away from the water and sat there because I was too exhausted to walk. I believe I was lucky that a few years prior to getting caught in a riptide, I'd started running. I usually ran 2.5 to 3 miles everyday. I credit that with my legs being strong enough to make it to shore. Considering how exhausted I was, I don't think a person who hadn't been running that much could have made it.

Here’s a list of water-related phobias for you guys in case you’re interested. Thalassophobia: persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the sea, oceans, pools, or lakes. Aquaphobia: Persistent fear of water and swimming/drowning (one I personally suffer from). Submechanophobia: is a fear of submerged human-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater. Bathophobia: The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves, regardless of water. Ablutophobia: Fear of bathing.

Wow! You're storytelling and editing is on God mode... Keep it up!!! Can't wait for more like this.

Looking forward to the latest video when it gets re uploaded bro

Junji Ito’s work has stayed with me for years. It’s disturbing and haunting but so addictive.

To Be Honest, at this point a new nexpo video is something that makes my day. Thank you Ryan, hope u feel better. I'm sure everybody sends their love. ❤

Hard to believe this video was released ten whole months ago. I've come back to it many times, and each time it feels like "A brand new Nexpo video." I love this channel and all of the things it covers, but I love most of all when I can tell when a creator is proud of and passionate about something they've made. I think that's what makes this video feel fresh, even ten months later.

This video seems very fitting considering the recent OceanGate disaster.

Watching that ship sail right over that diver absolutely unlocked a new phobia that I didn’t know existed. Well done.

It's cool that you mentioned Junji Ito's work because he actually just released an animated anthology series of his horror stories on Netflix including that ocean creature horror story you featured. Freaky deep sea life is really interesting to learn about but honestly the most hella creepy thing are stories about people drowning while exploring underwater caves, it doesn't matter if they're freshwater or sea caves, it's so much more terrifying combining claustrophobia with drowning. Also watching that footage of the man dying of nitrogen narcosis/drowning at 300ft really bummed me out, it makes you feel like gasping for air just thinking about it. The poor dude was also isolated in darkness with only that dim red light, absolutely an awful way to go.

Good work as always. I love when it transitions to pauses after the anxiety inducing clips... It makes me breathe so I can continue to the next sections.

Only Nexpo can talk about one of my deep fears while also soothing me with his voice 😂

The ocean has some things that are crazy about it, but that story and video of Yuri Lipsi being a man’s last moments were powerful. We see him make tragic mistake and then the last part where he just seems to accept it and is there waiting.

Yuri Lipski's story reminded me a lot of when I almost drowned 8y ago. I got cocky, got too far from the shore and one bigger wave was all it took for me to almost lose my life. Ever since then, any deep stream/body of water instills a deep dread in my soul. Thank you for this beautiful vid, Nexpo, and I genuinely hope you're feeling okay.

By far this is my favorite upload you have brought to us so far. I didn't want it to end.

I didn't get to finish watching darkest lost media volume 2 :'((

The Thing That Drifted Ashore was actually the first Junji Ito story I ever read, and while I don’t have a hint of Thalassophobia, it hit this specific fear I have (of being eaten or otherwise trapped inside a giant creature) so well that it took me YEARS to read the story again. Junji Ito’s stories have something for everyone, lol. Like a cornucopia of phobias.

Story of Yuri lipski really broke me How terrifying his death was, being 300 feet under the water, Can't go up due to pressure, Oxygen tank getting empty. Truly a wrath of the deep.

Amazing video; I'm still blown away by how professional and amazing all these "homemade" video documentaries can be. We all grew up watching TLC and Discovery channel stuff, but now we can make and share this sort of thing with one another is increible.

This is amazing and if you have time, this would be an epic series of other phobias or even a part 2 would be fantastic. However don’t push yourself. You have such quality content that people can play over constantly and not tire of it.

I’m a diver and for some reason I’ve never really felt disturbed by the oceans vastness. A little unnerving at times maybe but I always feel really at peace underwater. I guess it’s because of training not to panic but I find the ocean beautiful and fascinating

Watching this video honestly made me realize why my boyfriend has such a big fear of the ocean, it really just explains so much. Love the video as always and hope you’re feeling better man ❤️

this is the first video, that have shown and explained everything that I have on my mind according to ocean. such a qualitive, well collected material. thank you so much, don't stop doing it, because you are doing it amazing

Watching this after the events of the missing sub adds an even more terrifying level to it

Glued to my seat for 40 min, phenomenal work Nexpo! I've always been fascinated by the deep blue, from the mysterious creatures to the diver's demise. This piece really presents the Ocean with such chilling reverence, not typically seen in other deep sea doc's. Please a space episode next?!?!?!

This has SERIOUS production value, incredible job

I can pinpoint the moment I became afraid of machines in water. I went aboard the Queen Mary II as a child and got to go inside her propeller room. Looking over the rails, down into the pool where the giant propeller sat, filled me with such base and primal fear. I can't quite describe the intensity of what I felt that day and ever since, I've been extremely uneasy around man made structures underwater. Great upload, man. I really enjoyed this one.

i would like to say that this video's sound design is so calming to me. listening to the waves crashing and the muffled sounds of the ocean calmed me down and let me take a good nap. thank you for this video, nexpo.

Came back to this video after hearing the story of the missing submarine..

I didn’t have this phobia until I was in my early teens. I was snorkelling in Spain with my dad and we were going round these rocks with pretty fish and flora. I got distracted with following this one group of fish for a few moments and then I looked down. I was only a short distance away from the shore but apparently there was a huge drop off in the ocean so I saw… nothing. Just pitch black. I’ve never felt so much panic in my life and since then I’ve never entered the ocean.

"When you enter the ocean. You enter the foodchain. And mankind is nowhere near the top." Chilling. Another great video👍

A sub just went missing. Those people are now at the mercy of the deep. Blue. Sea.

I GOT TO WATCH THE NEW VID BEFORE IT GOT TAKEN DOWN

I am an active scuba diver and love it with every fiber of my being, and yet I have intensely fierce submechanophobia. Even seeing a small sailboat wreck or the legs of a dock from a distance fill me with this chilling sense of visceral dread that I just can't shake or escape. The way you explained and depicted this bizarre but crippling fear was flawless, thank you for exploring it!

I remember seeing something called a Magnapinna squid in one of those weird "deep sea oddities" videos, and holy shit it was the scariest thing I've ever seen. As always, thanks for the update, and I hope you feel a lot better.

"NEXPO" is truly a master at crafting entertaining video content... Each and every ingredient it takes to complete the recipes that are his videos, are so passionately & thoughtfully calculated.. Eerie yet also feels like a warm blanket comforting you. NEVER CHANGE, Nexpo.

As a person that suffers from thalassaphobia, I can 100% agree that the ocean is fucking terrifying. When I was a kid, I got pulled out in a rip current. Nobody noticed until it was too late. I couldn't swim out of it and it pulled me out extremely far to the point where I couldn't see the people on land any more. I thought I was going to die. Then I heard it. This extremely loud groaning noise from directly beneath me. I have no fucking idea of what it was because I never looked at it. I just sat there, trying to stay afloat and survive. Every few minutes it would make that noise again. I got saved by some deep sea fishers coming back in. Since then I have been terrified of the ocean and refuse to go into the ocean.

Subnautica was my cure for thalassophobia. It is still 100% there, but not nearly as intense as it used to be. Edit: I sent this before the Junji Ito part. My fear of the ocean has returned tenfold

Without a doubt some of the best content I've seen on UKposts. Outstanding.

I was at thw submechnaphobia section when i realized. The videos and pictures of shipwrecks, planes, buildings, all of those were fine. All covered in coral and ice, I found some weird beauty about it. But then the ship passed overhead, with its massive propeller, that video terrified me. I dont know why, but something about that made me feel.... aweful. I love these videos so much, it teaches me so much about humans, about our minds, and about the world around us.

When I think of an open ocean with nothing but water in sight, I actually find it relaxing. I really like the thought of just floating in the emptiness of an ocean like the ones many really really fear. So being weird like that, its super interesting to see and listen to others talk and express themselfs about what makes them so terrified and how they feel about it.

I fell asleep with my earbuds in and this vid in my watchlist. I woke up halfway through Yuri’s footage. My dad and I have already discussed, years ago, a shared dread of deep dark waters - so waking up to Yuri’s plight had me frozen in fear (didn’t want to panic and upset my sleeping dog next to me). Absolute terror. Respectfully presented.

Really good waitch, the way you utilized the audio as a part of the huge experience is soo damn good bro.

From the first second, this was gripping. Beautiful, enticing, yet haunting all at the same time. Thank you.

The fact that Jacob Geller, solar sands, and nexpo have covered thalassaphobia is incredible. Also wendigoon has confirmed his fear of the sea

I actually find these "thalassophobia" pictures and videos oddly calming. I can imagine myself simply laying adrift in the vast nothingness that gives me space to think and relax. The images are beautiful to me, and the creatures don't really scare me as much as they fasinate me. Idk, if I wasn't affected by the pressure/cold and I could breath underwater I know i would spend a lot of time alone in the abyss.

Quite unrelated, but the comic book segment reminded me very heavily of the theater play "Iona" (or "Jonah" in English), which is loosely, emphasis on loosely, based on the biblical myth of Iona/Jonah, a fisherman swallowed by a giant fish, who is very much alive and completely isolated inside the fish's belly. It's pure philosophy from start to finish, it's an acid trip of a play, but it's so worth watching/reading if you're looking for a philosophical mindfuck.

your content is on another level! your editing is incredible! Thank you so much.

My grandpa was a fisherman. The stories he told me were amazing but scary as hell. Just a whole other world.

This is becoming increasingly more relevant I am realizing...

Was the disturbing media 2 taken down?

Growing up in a small fishing community surrounded by the ocean, this hit really hard in my childhood fears. I used to have recurring nightmares when I was younger about being sucked out into the sea. The fact that there's still ocean lifeforms not discovered is extremely haunting.