Images of the tsunami

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Started by dktekno December 29, 2004 09:39 AM

56 comments, last by PumpkinPieman 19 years, 4 months ago

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December 30, 2004 06:26 PM

Quote:Original post by JexMX
I think the scariest thing about the tsunami was that after the waves, it started to suck the water back out to sea, with people in it. I would hate to be sucked out to sea, trying to swim against that current would be unbelievably hard...

People would of got tired and drown :(

Not that anyone is likely to find themselves caught in a massive tsunami anytime soon, but if you are caught in a rip tide, the best way to get out of it is not to swim against it; you're wasting your energy. Instead, swim parallel to the shore until you're out of the current, then swim back to shore.

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ZeroBit

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December 30, 2004 09:53 PM

Quote:Not that anyone is likely to find themselves caught in a massive tsunami anytime soon, but if you are caught in a rip tide, the best way to get out of it is not to swim against it; you're wasting your energy. Instead, swim parallel to the shore until you're out of the current, then swim back to shore.

That is assuming you can swim in it...As the current is so strong it will also carry over building wreckage, trees, and everything else. It is very hard to escape i guess...

owl

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December 30, 2004 09:57 PM

Quote:Original post by ZeroBit
Quote:Not that anyone is likely to find themselves caught in a massive tsunami anytime soon, but if you are caught in a rip tide, the best way to get out of it is not to swim against it; you're wasting your energy. Instead, swim parallel to the shore until you're out of the current, then swim back to shore.

That is assuming you can swim in it...As the current is so strong it will also carry over building wreckage, trees, and everything else. It is very hard to escape i guess...

The most dangerous are the ones that go below the surface of the water, those won't let you go anywhere but where the current ends, and you'll be probably drowned by then. That kind of accidents use to happen in appearently calm rivers, people gets in pretty comfident that there is no danger because they can't see it, if such a current catches them, they die.

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ZeroBit

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December 30, 2004 11:11 PM

from Banda Aceh, Indonesia...
I heard the house is 1 km away from the shore line...
Link to wmv file
Death toll is 80k and counting

owl

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December 30, 2004 11:26 PM

Quote:Original post by ZeroBit
from Banda Aceh, Indonesia...
I heard the house is 1 km away from the shore line...
http://www.goedzo.com/media/zeebeving/katc.wmv
Death toll is 80k and counting

130k and counting. Still tens of thousands of missing persons.

I saw a picture of a guy (probably a poor native) holding a handful of something (strawl?), looking at the horizon with an expression in his face that broke my heart. He looked like thinking "everything is gone".

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ZeroBit

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December 30, 2004 11:30 PM