I recently learned the name of a phobia that I always knew I had but didn’t have the words for
Submechanaphobia
I was always terrified of wave pools in particular
I recently learned the name of a phobia that I always knew I had but didn’t have the words for
Submechanaphobia
I was always terrified of wave pools in particular
@LeoBurr the briefest of perusing Wikipedia on that tells me what I need to know lol
Born too late to be traumatized by Action Park 
The wave pool there earned the name “Grave Pool” because people literally drowned in it… multiple times. Waves were waaay too aggressive, pool overcrowded, half the kids in there couldn’t swim, and the freshwater meant less buoyancy than the ocean that most people on the coast were used to.
My aunt just dragged us out there and let us go. The park had a steadily increasing body count until it was shut down. So no, “survived” isn’t hyperbole. :)
Well I’m glad you survived to tell the tale
I think the last wave pool I went to was at Hawaiian Falls in North Texas