Swimmers Stories

Stories from people SWIMMING on The Bay of Bengal Dec 26th 2004

These stories are being collected to assist the international tsunami community in creating guidelines to help people In the sea, during future tsunamis.

If possible, please try to include information about the following:

1) Location of swim spot, approximate water depth, how were the waves before the tsunami, was it flat?, where you in the beachbreak, impact or surf zone? were you wearing fins?
2) How did you learn about the tsunami, what time was it?
3) What did you do
4) What happened:
-appearance of wave or waves
-did you observe a drawdown of the water?
-how many waves or water surges?
-how long did the unusual wave or current activity last?
5) How did you or your group fare? Deaths or injuries?
6) How far did you run? Could you get to higher ground?
7) Did you get sucked out to sea, knocked over?
8) Did you see any marine wildlife acting up before or during?

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