Scared? hah psh....ok fine

I absolutely love the water. However I do have one exception to that claim; I absolutely hate the water at night and while there are living marine life and/or large things such as ships or docks. It sounds specific, but that is exactly what my fear is: specific. When people face their fears, they think of only the worse things that can happen. These things range from very likely to completely impossible/very unlikely/unreasonable. My thoughts that fit under this category are that I will somehow get hurt because of these machines; machines cannot control what they do, therefore they cannot react to what's around them; and that some animal of some kind will take me by surprise and attack me. I don't know anyone who wouldn't be afraid of being near wild animals or big pieces of machinery in the water; especially at night. I just don't think anything good can come out of being next to ships, submarines, or anything of that sort. If I cannot see what's around me, I don't feel comfortable being in the water, unless it's day time. I was forced to face my fear one time at camp a few years ago. There was a camp wide scavenger hunt and one of our objectives was for one team member to put on big, baggy sweatpants and a jacket (mind you, these were the cotton that soaked water and became heavy) and swim out to a boat in the lake and back. I was chosen to do this task. I quickly appealed the decision by stating the case of my fear. I had three issues with this: 1) It was night 2) it included a large, dark, natural body of water and 3) being a natural body of water, it probably contained wildlife that I had no idea existed. It took me a while but I eventually accepted the challenge and finished first; this was more a result of me being scared out of my mind and wanting to get out as soon as I could.