I am a fairly good swimmer myself so being in the water itself does
not bother me, and by the way i am a female. it's just the part of
the pool where it sort of drops off from the shallow to the deep end.
I am trying to get over my fear by swimming to the deep end and back
when i can.
but i mainly stay in the part that is not over maybe 4' deep at the
most. and yes this is a real fear of mine.
I also have a fear of eletricity, because i was shocked on accendent
when i was a child.
more about that later.