I didn't think to mention that, but I too have an honest-to-goodness water phobia. Can't handle any body of water larger than a whirlpool without my heart pounding, getting faint, etc.

I don't know where it came from, but my mom has the same thing, so she probably transferred it to me somehow. I still don't know how to swim because of it - when my parents tried to put me in swimming classes as a kid I would just scream, continuously, until they took me away from the pool.