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02-27-2005, 04:00 PM | #1 |
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Canadian Couple, Drowned by Tsunami, Took Pictures of Wave
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02-27-2005, 04:55 PM | #2 | |
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02-27-2005, 06:22 PM | #3 |
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How much bigger did this wave seem than the other normal ones? From looking at the pictures it doesnt show a scale of the two. Call me a dumbass, but I could see myself looking out at the ocean and taking these same pics.
How many people on the beach actually survived by running? What was the speed of the wave? I dont have any idea, just wondering out loud. |
02-27-2005, 06:29 PM | #4 |
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Obviously the wave must have been noticable enough to make them decide to take photos of it, but to be fair, I'm pretty sure noone on that beach could have imagined the devestation that wave was going to cause.
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02-27-2005, 07:29 PM | #5 |
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I would've started running at about pic #4....
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02-27-2005, 10:54 PM | #6 |
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I avoid the beach at all costs, and therefore wouldn't have had the opportunity to be that stupid.
Anyone going to nominate these folks for the Darwin Award?
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02-27-2005, 11:01 PM | #7 |
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The pictures that stun me the most are the second one, where the wave is the entire width of the shot...a solid wall of water that is level across the entire frame, and the next to last one, where you can see a person standing on the beach, and the wave is about to crash across the rocks. If that person is somewhere in the vicinity of six feet tall, and judging the further distance to the wave, that monster must have been 30 to 40 feet high.
Having watched a couple of Discovery Channel shows about tsunamis, I would have been heading for high ground when the water receded, leaving the exposed tidal flat. I know what that shit means.
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02-28-2005, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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I guess you become complacent to strange phenomenon is paradise...until it’s too late.
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03-16-2005, 11:20 AM | #9 |
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Yahoo link is gone, found another link from cnn:
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/w...t.exclude.html
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