photos and narrative from a sailboat during the Tsunami

[jmz]

I know there are a few other sailors on board who will find this very interesting. ...even the land-lubbers should. Tsunami photos and narrative from the perspective of a person on board a sailboat

[Neilk]

Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for sharing the link.

I was in the Bahamas over Christmas and was wondering what we would have to do to save ourselves if a Tsunami was forecast to hit the islands. My main question was how far we would need to go offshore (mainly how deep) to avoid the Tsunami. It looks as if 40+ feet of water would be enough to avoid the waves.

[VaSteve]

Check out the Cheese and Crackers blog. There's a bunch of video out there of the thing hitting shore. Some is fairly benign (as much as a tsunami video can be) but some is scary as hell. You can see people standing there watching - I don't think they even understood what it was in some cases.

You always think if tidal waves as these giant waves like they have in Hawaii only bigger. It's really not what you think...

[azasadny]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/world/2004-12-30_quakesatellite/movie.htm?startat=1