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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SunTracker on January 03, 2005, 12:09:36 PM
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Briton Surfs Tsunami, Survives
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - British surfer Martin Markwell had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave -- but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare.
Markwell was paddling on his surfboard Sunday off the popular Hikkaduwa beach resort on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed southern coast when he was swept up by a tsunami wave and sent crashing over a white sand beach and into a hotel restaurant.
"It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn't supposed to be on," he told Reuters.
"As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn't escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle."
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed toward the shore. Miraculously, he stayed atop his board until he reached the hotel, jumped off and waded to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way.
The family regrouped and ran inland into jungle to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 30 feet high crashed into Sri Lanka's coast, killing more than 28,500 people.
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Very interesting fact.
I live one block off the Coney Island beach, so I'm intended to tie my monster surfboard to my ankle, just in case. I hope that the guys from the seismic research station here on the US East coast will send the tsunami warning to the proper authority and not to the former minister in charge, as it happened in India.
BTW, I also keep forgetting the exact protocol for tsunami warning system here in New York.
Especially for that scenario where a man-made underwater nuke sends the big ripple towards the NYC.
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I'm really sorry for my bad joke about the tsunami hitting the Coney Island beach.
That's how it sounds in reality (quote of the quote by the New York Press) :
Tucker Carlson on CNN interviews Stuart Sipkin, Seismologist, U.S. Geological Survey and asks the question that strikes fear in all of us.
CARLSON: Now what about, we've been hearing all day about this volcano in the Canary Islands that may collapse at some point and send a tsunami toward the East Coast of the United States drowning the Hamptons. Do you consider that a likely scenario, a possible scenario? (end of quote)
And the geowise guy answeres that he does not even know the probability of such events happening ! :confused: :eek: :confused: :(
Yeah ! Mine was a bad joke.
Anyway guys, thank you very much for letting me talk to myself.