Fear of water

I have a fear of water. A swimming pool is fine. Jumping out of a boat out in open waters to swim with dolphins, huge fear! Love riding on the jet ski. Just don’t throw me off in shimmy, mucky water. Canoe trips, along an area where I have heard snakes hang from trees, gators…not I’m not a prissy girl. I will work in the dirt, you name it. I wish people would understand my fear. My kids, friends, think it’s funny. It is really a fear. Any one have the same fear? Or just me?