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Arlyn Stewart
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Initially Posted - 01/03/2005 :  23:02:02  Show Profile  Visit Arlyn Stewart's Homepage
For those who don't visit The Trailer Sailor, this link was provided there by one of its regulars.

[url="http://www.yachtaragorn.com/Thailand.htm"]Tsunami pics and account[/url]
Arlyn C-250 W/B #224

N/E Texas and Great Lakes
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  00:09:59  Show Profile
As scary as these pictures are, they don't even touch the enormity of this incredible disaster--not to mention its breadth. Somebody sent me a WAV file shot by a guy who was eventually swept away, with up-close footage of other people as they are being overwhelmed and swept away. The beginning is gripping, the sounds are frightening, and the end is heart-stopping.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  07:58:42  Show Profile
Yesterday, someone at work brought in a newspaper from Thailand (his wife and family are from Thailand) and the pages were filled with much more graphic pictures that what is shown here...It's a terrible trajedy and that's an understatement.

I spent a week in Phuket/Patong Beach in the late 80's. I doubt that I would even recognize the place.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  12:54:49  Show Profile
One thing I found interesting... As the mass of water moved ashore, the current around those anchored boats probably exceeded the boats' hull speeds by multiples. That alone was probably pretty exciting--your boat wants to get up and plane, the water is rising, the anchor is pulling the bow down... Then it all reverses as the wave retreats, like a giant rip-tide. Better than being on the beach, though!
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tinob
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  13:57:40  Show Profile
Thanks Arlyn...

Val on the hard DAGNABIT
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  16:59:10  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
Did anybody see the clip about the guy on the 50' multihull? He made it through the tsunami and then effected a rescue. He lives on his boat and is confined to a wheel chair!
Edited by - Ben - FL on 01/04/2005 17:24:58
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  19:37:56  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Not everyone suffered the same fate.....

http://forum.cruisingworld.com/forums/genlmesg/index.pl?read=395301

More on them here:

http://www.the-south-asian.com/Feb%202003/jarawa_of_andaman_islands_india-1.htm

They are now watching cnn going, look at this man, didn't they see the animals leave?

Oscar
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/04/2005 :  20:26:49  Show Profile
There are reports from aid workers that tribesmen on some Indonesian islands are shooting arrows at the choppers. I'm really not surprised... My daughter and son-in-law are Peace Corps volunteers in a village in Mali where most villagers have only seen aircraft about once or twice in their lives--light planes high overhead scouting for gold mining sites. A big Sikorsky flying low would blow their minds!
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Todd Frye
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Response Posted - 01/06/2005 :  17:36:57  Show Profile
This link just came down the pike.

Whoa...

http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/9.html

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