Asian Tsunami 2004, Koh Ngai, Thailand
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2013
- in response to the many questions - all of us featured in this video are still alive.
We were on the landward side of the island of Koh Ngai, Thailand, so didn't get a direct hit - rather the wave as it washed around the island. The location is approximately here 7.403820098940225, 99.21574213373444 (you can see the pier in the background)
#tsunami #thailand #2004
A girl in my geography class died on that day along with her boyfriend. She was the most lovely girl you could wish to meet. I'll never forget her asking me how she looked when we were trying out our costumes for a school play.
I’m so sorry.
I’m so sorry :(
Funny how literally everyone knows someone who died in a disaster.
Damn Bro
@@philbecker4676 It’s honestly not all that surprising considering that over a quarter million people died in this tusnami alone. That’s a staggering number for one single event among many thousands. Easy to see how knowing someone who died in a disaster isn’t all that uncommon. It’s just a different take on the “six degrees of separation” theory.
There was a funny story of a famous geophysicist who was in Phuket and saw the tide rushing out. Started telling everyone around, oh, cool, this must be a tsunami, and describing how they worked. His wife cut him off and said honey, shouldn’t we be running away? Oh. yes.
They helped get everyone off the beach and warned the hotel to get ready. Everyone at their hotel survived.
Funny how he was a GEOPHYSICIST but it took his wife to have the common sense of GETTING AWAY lol
Lol that’s such a scientist thing to do, any dangerous phenomena is so fascinating that they forget they’re actually in danger
@Roger Rabbit 🔧 Did he keep all his money in a bucket?
back then many people are so clueless about tsunami...its like they never knew about this
I remember reading about a primary (elementary) school teacher from London who was the only one to recognise that a Tsunami was approaching his beach - he cleared the beach too and probably saved many lives.
In 2004 prior to the disaster, most tourists were clueless regarding tsunamis, and some could not even say the word. These days, people are more aware of the warning signs as a lot was learned after the events that happened in 2004.
Yeah 100%, I was on the beach in spain last week and was thinking about the ocean receding and I wouldn’t have had a clue what it meant before 2004
Facts! I like you. You know perspective
I remember when the tsunami occurred in 2004, which of course was a time just before social media really began. People wondered how people could possibly die from a wave. And then they saw the videos of the disaster on TV and online of when the tsunami was occurring. People then wondered how anyone could have possibly survived it.
That’s because most people are thick as shite.
Jesus that's a sad bubble some of you people live in then.
Friends of my parents were staying on a small island somewhere in the ocean and got up early to go on a sea fishing expedition. They experienced a huge swell out at sea but thought nothing of it. When they returned to their island later that day it had been swept clean. No hotel beach huts, no restaurants, no trees, no people. Nothing. All gone.
Wow.
Dang. Sucks they didn’t die with all the locals.
This same thing happened on Easter Island! Everyone’s gone!
I can’t even imagine.
Terrifying, just terrifying! Reading this gave me such a chill. Thank goodness for that fishing trip 🥺
You ever see water recede like that, get to the highest ground you can. Follow the animals. They know something is wrong and their instinct is to flee.
This wasn't a big deal. Where was serious tsunami it receded way way more
The water recedes like that when I get out of the bathtub
I was looking for the water to pull back quite a bit more than that...you can still see the power of the water just a few feet off of the shore.
@@ligametis If this was in the area more seriously hit, the people operating the camera likely would have died, and the camera itself likely would have been destroyed.
Thank you for sharing that because I wouldn't have known that otherwise. I understand the part that if the animals start leaving and if they go quiet then you need to get the hell out of there and get to High Ground.
Watch the waves closely and imprint these words in your mind: If you see the ocean receding unusually rapidly or far it's a good sign that a big wave is on its way. Go to high ground IMMEDIATELY, Alert everyone around you to do the same and call for assistance as soon as possible. Stay safe
EDIT: So people really seem to have a hard time reading the full comment. THE OCEAN RECEDES DAILY, it's nothing weird.
But if you see it happening FAST and violently and if it's not the right time for the tide, you react. Instead of acting stupid, understand this: People don't scream tornado on every windy day, but the do when they notice that the storm isn't a regular storm, when things start lifting off the ground and structures start to fail.
It's also worth noting that not always when ocean is receding it indicates an tsunami it might happen due to some other reasons to. But i guess it's better to be safer than sorry, so yeah if you are near the ocean and saw something like that you better get to higher ground for atleast the next 4,5 hours.
The modern tsunami warning system came from that event.
Like.. The wave that suddenly moving down.
Soo you comment here is like teaching a veteran of world war 2 how to design a tank. Modern tank designs came from the World War 2 event if u guys dont know about that.
but good tho to teach the viewerrs here that dont know about that
ok ty
Call for assistance? Um you must be liberal.
@@Norseman311 you would just die on that mountain so
The speed of the water retreating at the start of this clip is crazy. I thought the process would have been much slower, that's honestly caught me completely off guard.
The water reducing actually super fast if tsunami occur
It look exactly like moving water in a bowl
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I was in Phuket in 2002 and was in a bar close to the beach. I happened to meet the owner who was from Sweden. He purchased the bar in early 2001 and was doing a great business....he felt elated but then he stated that the "twin tower incident" practically wiped him out = tourists gone. He said "things can't get any worse....and hopefully the tourists will be back soon." I thought of him and his bar when I heard about the destruction of the tsunami in 2004. I wonder if he made it? He was a very personable guy and as he incorrectly said: "things can't get much worse."
Whenever someone says something like that they just jinxed themselves.
Impresionante ojalá haya sobrevivido wow
@@RoccosVideos We all say it....one time or another.
@@mikejohn0088 I would literally never say something like that. I’m not typically superstitious but saying something like that would be tempting fate. Like when they were calling the titanic unsinkable, just tempting fate.
@@RoccosVideos he created the tsunami singlehandedly. It was his fault. He should never have said that!
Imagine staying at the beach until you realize that there’s a giant wave coming right at you, super fast. You only see that in the movies, until it becomes reality.
That's what you call a black swan event.
You haven't lived on the east coast of Australia where freak 'sets' come out of nowhere. These wave sets claim the lives of quite a few rock fishermen every year.
@@jurgentreue1200 Australian coast is nothing compared to the 04 tsunami. 4 miles inland the water went
@@jurgentreue1200 Also sneaker waves happen in Oregon coast too and swipe the beach regularly. Big tide swings plus big sea shelfs plus winter storms equal tons of water displacement
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if you see animals that would usually go after each other as food, or fighting each other suddenly stop and start running in the same direction, and you're near a beach or body of water somewhere, and said water is receding quickly, that's life itself telling you to run for higher ground. many people have seen animals behaving as mentioned above, a number of them in Japan, and it has saved their lives. some have even recorded seeing water recede rapidly at port towns, the boats anchored in them hitting sand in minutes. it also happened in this video.
apply this animal behavior tip in places where tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes and other dangerous weather is known to happen as well. paying attention to animals will come in handy and save you some time in the event of a disaster.
stay aware, stay alive, and GOD bless you.
I live in Florida and we often get hurricanes and your right. It’s so strange because a few hours before the storm hits it can be beautiful out and sunny and the birds seem to honestly chirp even louder than normal ( not warning sounds just regular ones) then all of a sudden as the day goes on and just the beginning of the wind starts ( feels mostly like a breeze) you listen and hear nothing. Sometimes even before the wind. Dead silence. It’s actually a little freaky and especially when the stormy skies start rolling in and the winds pick up a bit it’s nerve wracking- even though we all( Floridians) love us a good hurricane- while they are still very dangerous mostly if you stay inside a well built place you’ll be perfectly fine. I would rather deal with hurricanes than anything else because you at least have warning and time to prepare or leave if it’s bad enough. My heart goes out to all who have lost their lives due to natural disasters but yes the animals are a gift to know what’s going on before we do sometimes
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Oddly enough, the same case for wild fires. The animals will know before you do.
It’s really easy for us, with hindsight to say people should’ve done this, or to ask why didn’t people do that, or the other, and to pass judgement. Let’s no forget that The Boxing Day Tsunami is single-handedly responsible for etching into our collective consciousness that if you see the ocean receding, that means trouble, and it’s time to reach higher ground. Before the tsunami the average person didn’t have the slightest clue about the warning signs of tsunami-related impeding doom. So survival instinct didn’t kick in for many until it was too late. I have nothing but compassion for the people in these videos reacting in a way that may seem to some as "foolish" or "oblivious" because I would’ve probably had a similar reaction at 24 years old in 2004.
I agree 100%
You said it perfectly. I'd just find it all amusing and stay right there at the beach. But we'll never know.
Hindsight is always 20/20. I've learned in my day to day that I'll have a rapid thought such as, "that's strange" or "this is odd". 99/100 it's something simple that I didn't understand at the time, but because of the affect the 1 time has I'm trying to train myself to listen to that thought because my subconscious may be putting things together that I'm not aware of yet. Yet in hindsight it's much easier to organize warnings compared to lack of experience.
But it's CZcams, the home of millions of commenters who have infallible understanding of science and philosophy and can beat up all takers.
That instinct was instilled hundreds of thousands of years ago. People are typically just too self absorbed to pay attention to the world around them. Tsunamis are literally a yearly occurrence since the Dawn of water on this planet. Not this new thing that just started in 2004.
The ocean is a paradox, it’s terrifying but beautiful.
True, actually it is pretty well behaved- it's almost always acting normally. an enormous earth quake caused that tsanumi, and that was 18 years ago. Hopefully more people in that part of the world now know to quickly run from the shore to higher ground when the water recedes. RIP to all who died that sad day
@@Mike1614b it was a nuclear bomb detonated underwater. Not the first time. Look into it.
Far out man.....
@@swisschalet1658 so the tsunami is caused by underwater nuke ? how about the earthquake? is there a credible witness that saw the explosion?
That was so insightful and deep.
I am an Indonesian and that day, a friend of mine who live in aceh province, died, along with almost all of her family members (dad, mom, 1 older brother, and 2 younger sisters). The only survivor of her family is her older sister, who study in another island far away.
I’m so sorry 😔
Sad to hear! 😢
My wife is Indonesian... we were here in the USA when this happened... I remember her being online listening to radio stations from back home and checking every article she could find...
Nah its not a tsunami lol ,
@@joemama8243 ....
I remember this well. I was stationed onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and we had anchored off the coast of Hong Kong for a 5 day port visit. On the third day the entire crew was recalled and we left for Bandai Ache Indonesia to assist. It was the most horrific thing I'd ever witnessed.
In the Coast Guard in 89 and patrolling near the Valdez when it ran aground. That was the most horrifying thing I've seen in person. The images don't capture it. Oil everywhere, getting in and on everything. Birds, fish, seals. A local mass extinction event.
Obviously that was at a much smaller scale than the tsunami, but to see it in person, yeesh. Will never forget it
I was on the Abe Lincoln as well and was dropped off in Hawaii before the boat left Port of calls because my enlistment was over. I saw it as it unfold and my boys emailed me telling me about it. Should have extended 18 months. Was part of Eng/E-div
*Banda Aceh
yea. aceh got it pretty bad. it was jaw dropping. never know that kind of disaster is exist at that time
@@Bubbles99718
to think Deepwater Horizon topped that
One of the earliest lessons my dad taught me was if you see the ocean going out further than normal you run in the opposite direction to high ground as fast as you can.
Interesting. Can I ask if there was a reason why? Do you live in a tsunami zone?
Same for me, we always knew that as a kid early on. I'm from NZ
Yep!!! It’s almost like when you take a deep inhale, and blow out as hard as you can!!!
As Obi Wan would say, it’s over once you have the high ground
I was watching for this to go out and didn't see it (only in). A little frustrating if it's supposed to be obvious.
I live in Australia and I’ve had a few close calls in the ocean, what saved me each time is my quick response and awareness to the situation. Stay alert everyone
DO NOT UNDER ESTIMATE THE OCEAN 🌊
In one of these videos there's a huge wave careening toward a bunch of onlookers when a woman says "I sure hope it doesn't hit the beach." Even my ears couldn't believe their ears at how stupid some people can be. Where did she think it would land on a mountain top?
@@tortillasarenotbiceps7622 Maybe she thought the tsunami would do a U-turn
Witness the might of the seas as sea fairy said.
Water is so strong, it can cut through rocks. That giant hairball clogging up the sink however, and forget it.
Any body of WATER
thank god all the tsunami experts are here to educate us in the comments, 17 years after the fact
Your comment is underrated. 🤣👍
Well, that wasn't the only tsunami. It will happen again somewhere.
Yeah they all should've been on the island at that time and there would be no death since all of them would've survived.
No hidden camera footage from the women's changeroom or showers.
I was there. We (USS Fort McHenry) had to do the relief. I talked with one of the residents in Thailand who said they were told to get to the top level of their homes. When they did a giant wave crashed into and shook the entire house. It’s amazing that they survived.
We people in sri lanka never experienced natural disasters other than rainy season floods and landslides . (Closest we knew was of a historical event 2000 years ago. The Chronicals record that the gods angry at the king for a great misdeed sent the sea towards the land, and to appease the gods the king had to sacrifice his daughter to the sea, after which the slowly rising sea water levels subsided. The boat carrying the princess landed at another coastal area so no lives were lost)
So thousands of locals gathered at the shore to look in awe at the sea going inwards. If only people knew so many lives would have been saved.
Missed it by a few months, my deployment ended just before this Tsunami hit. Spent time in Phuket during the deployment. Patong Beach was nice place to relax.
Was this cape panwa in phuket?
I have to say it was anxious to watch this. I'm from the southern part of India which took a heavy hit by tsunami during my 6th grade. Watched it live as we were close to the shore. luckily we were in the 1st floor of an apartment and the ground floor got completely submerged under water... Lots of people fell inside the nearby canals and was drowned when it was filled up. The ocean behaved like it was alive and gone a maniac... Never could forget that day.
I'm sorry you had to went through that. Must be tough to witness.
Glad you survived. Awful to go thru something that devastating.
I was sitting on the beach in Perth Western Australia on the day this happened and I remember seeing the tide receeding quite far out, thinking "how odd". I had no clue of why or what was to come 1000's of miles away. We didn't see any tsunami aftermath in Perth, but the effects of it were that far reaching.
I was in Singapore by the beach with my 4 yo niece that day. She loves swimming and building sandcastle by the beach. But that day she refused to step into the water at all.
It was unusually windy and the water was warm....I remembered as it was early morning and not the hot, sunny afternoon.
So we packed up our picnic after 2 hrs since she was fearful of the water and we reached home and took a nap after lunch. Woke up at around 4pm to news about the tsunami in phuket......crazy days then..
@@myownlilbubble Do you have any clue why she intuitively knew that? or might be just a coincidence. I'm curious, did she explain why she's afraid?
@@jakew4829 she told it that it was unusually windy and water was warm. This made the gorl frightened
Yay! Shout out for Perth! I live in Ellenbrook!
@@myownlilbubbledivine intervention
Get your stuff first cause you can always come back in the next life. They didnt seem to understand what was coming.
That was all that happened, some places just saw a tickle.
It sure was a learning experience for a lot of people
This is probably all what happened. Wave becomes smaller, in many places it was just a meter or less. Not a lot worse than a stronger wave.
This was in 2004 dude, is that too hard to understand?
Easy to judge when you watch and comment from footage 17 years later.
I was on patong beach in Phuket when the sea started to go out and vanish . A little girl was yelling tsunami and people started to leave . I can’t believe how fast the first wave came in . Luckily we got to higher ground in time and watched in disbelief .
Search Tilly Smith. Was it her that save you that day?
That little girl was a hero!
A little girl ... because today's adults love to watch and video... too busy being entertained
@@YeeHaw168 not sure as we was opposite the end of Bangla Road on sun beds after a brilliant night out celebrating Xmas. The beach was not to busy and I remember seeing a guy on a jet ski a quarter of a mile out sitting on the sand as the water had gone and he was shouting at the shore confused.It was surreal .
I wonder if that was the schoolgirl from England that had just learned about that effect in school and saved her entire family's life?
I’ve always lived in a tsunami danger zone: Philippines, S. California, and even in Washington, near Mt. St. Helen. My grandpa always said that when the water recedes, you should go to a higher place right away. So scary.
I’m in Washington, near St Helens. I love it here.
😐 In Florida, there _IS NO_ higher place.
Granted, I'm not expecting anything to come in from the Atlantic in any reasonable scenario, but still...
What's the winning play in this scenario?
You live in Daytona, Fl and while walking along the beach, you see the water suddenly begin to recede....
You can:
A) Panic and run inside the nearest 25 story Hotel and begin climbing stairs AFAP.
B) Panic and run to your car, attempting to make it across the 80ft tall bridge, continuing to the mainland.
C) Panic and stop ATOP the 80 ft bridge to the mainland, hoping the wave is under that height.
D) Panic and freeze like a deer in the headlights, unable to think or move as the wave approaches.
E) T-pose in an attempt to assert your dominance over mother nature.
Not many good options for a Florida man. Not a great deal of time to make it that far inland.
@@snickle1980T-POSE LOL
Mount St Helens is landlocked. its nowhere near the sea.
@@roquefortfiles there was/is a lake there. A tsunami isn’t just for the sea.
i recall reading about the ocean as a seven or eight yr old, all the books warned about signs of a tidal wave or a tsunami - God rest the souls that had no clue
Yeah you will learn that I. 5 th grade when you are nowhere near an ocean
The people who died are basically retarded as they don’t have the mental capacity of a 5th grader. While living in the danger zone. Rest in piss
It’s easy to judge but many people just didn’t know the danger signs. I think if it was me then I would have ignored it and stayed at the beach and died.
Same, I'm from a desert so i don't know about tsunamis
Tsunamis are a normal occurrence there and they normally are not a brutal as the one coming. The 2004 for was a mega tsunami, the largest in recorded history at the time.
Same, those just look like big waves to me and rough waters. I wouldn't have known that a massive tsunami was coming until it were too late
I live in the American Midwest and know the warning signs of a tsunami, but somehow people who vacation on beaches in an active earthquake zone managed to miss that safety meeting.
@@paulomilan515 you don't stay on the beach for ANY tsunami warning, based on how "brutal" you think they won't be. Tornadoes are a normal occurrence here this time of year, but I don't run outside to try to see one when there is a confirmed one on the ground, and the folks here who do often pay for their stupidity.
I'm not saying these people knew anything was amiss, but I'm referring to your particular point that tsunamis there are somehow normalized (doubtful assertion), and thus it's understandable if one isn't taken seriously.
Very easy to say what should have been done. Couldn't imagine relaxing on the beach then seeing the waves approaching. Such a powerful force.
The only correct comment here. Lots of bs experts (no surprise there: it’s youtube after all, home of all armchair experts) with advice which clearly shows they have no clue. “Oh when you see a wave blah blah blah.” Bunch of morons. Truth is, these waves are relatively small, and it’s a common occurrence to have waves at the beach, even bigger ones, with no consequences. I went to the beach all my life, and you know what people do when there are waves? They go in the water. 99% of the time what follows is a beer and a burger. Yes, water receding can be a tell tale sign, not all waves are the same, and not all geographical locations are the same (in some places you should be more wary of sudden phenomena), but in the end people relaxing on the beach are... relaxing. They’re not on high alert, and they aren’t watching a clip of what actually happened. Being on high alert at the beach would be stressful af.
So yeah, go prepared, learn about natural catastrophes and how to avoid them, but cut these people some slack: it’s not impossible to be caught off guard, especially while on vacation!
I would have been ignorant. I have only seen the ocean about 5 times.
Met a Guy in Indonesia in 2012 that told me that his brother used to have a surf camp in North Sumatra, near Banda Aceh. His brother notice the huge amount of water rushing out. He and his family got inside a car and the guy saw a huge wall of white foam from the reariew mirror. They manage to scape from the tsunami by riding up a nearby hill as far as the road would go. They stayed there for 10 days surrounded by water, waiting for the rescue mission to come.
Bullshit. Not how it works.
Yeah sure I bet his car was also a Bugatti Veyron and they drove up the golden road
Oh man that reminds me of my best friend who Saly passed away a couple years ago but he was in Thailand when the tsunami happened and he was gonna go snorkeling in this cave but the girl in Thailand he was dating begged him not to go cause she had a bad feeling apparently and so he didn’t go and the people that went all drowned. He then stayed while most foreigners bounced and helped with the Red Cross even just sitting down and holding peoples hands that were dying and it really messed him up for a long time I think he got PTSD from it. After that he turned to painkillers. He did have a really bad neck injury but it seem like after that event he really just did way too many and it eventually cost him his life.
Paint killers feel good regardless might not be connected. Could of got into trap rap
@@sadhu7191 bruh..
How did he die
oh my god oh tragic
@@advent6679 some ppl die from ptsd
Even in the beginning of the video when everyone's joking around, the ocean has already abnormally receded and is then flowing back - the early signs of a tsunami. They are clueless, however.
Even if I know this fact this receding didn't look serious. I mean, look how much it recedes when serious tsunami comes. And to be fair in this location it was just a bigger wave.
@@ligametis looked pretty serious to me when the waves almost white capped going backwards
@@kevinhurst9885 yes, this is unusual, but still not that dangerous to run for your life.
@@ligametis over 200k dead prolly wish they ran for their lives. But 👌
@@kevinhurst9885 there was no tsunami in this particular place as you can see... So no dead people. Deaths were in other locations...
When the waves are "going out" to the ocean ....RUN!!!
Good to know
remember 90% of the worlds population is ignorant of 99% of world natural disaster signs oh mountain slides earthquakes cracks in cement in asphalt tide receding they see the signs but not understand
JESUS CHRIST will come very soon!
@@bekennejesusdeinesundenund2427 Ill be there to kill him lol
@@shillian4770 You must fear the wrath of GOD!
Things can change so fast. Glad you guys are ok. Got a new subscriber. Was fun interesting to watch. Great video
I honeymooned in Phuket and luckily returned back to the States a month before the tsunami. I cant imagine. It is so heartbreaking
Everyone is always acting like they knew what the signs of a tsunami are before this. I remember when it happened nobody back that had a clue. Its easy to say "if the water goes back, better run" decades later.
So true
Speacilly when the title says TSUNAMI
One video I saw a Thai woman told her male coworkers it was a tsunami..they mocked her…another group of people were saved when a teenager saw the receding waters and told them about it being a sign of a tsunami..miraculously the adults heeded her warning and that teenager saved many lives…and the Japanese know since they are like a tsunami capital…hence the international use of their word for it…let’s all teach our kids these lessons..Peace
While working in Dutch Harbor in Alaska we had to go to higher ground because of a Tsunami warning and that was definitely one of the scariest moments of my life....
Nature can Rape you anytime was twice in a hailstorm one destroyed our city complete 421 roofs
And once get hit by lightning strike awake a few days later in hospital nature have real power
Alaska gets some crazy tsunamis
Especially since the water is 40° or less
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For those who don't know, that Tsunami killed 227.898 people across 14 countries.
More people then your figures. Never give an actual number, because nobody really knows exactly how many people died.
I had twins in May 2005, a boy and a girl. When they were two and learning to talk, my son told us the same story a over and over. He described drowning in a van with curtains from a giant water wall coming in. He said he lost his brother and his other Mommy and Daddy, who had “shiny black skin”. It was the most stunning experience of our lives.
Interesting story, I hope you recorded it or wrote it down with all the details in a notebook to investigate who his previous family was so that he could talk to his old surviving friends and family.
@@bvillafuerte765 Yes but There were so many who died in that Tsunami. 250,000 through Thailand Sri Lanka India and Maldives. Finding a story that matches is nearly impossible. From his descriptions, and certain behaviors and characteristics as he grew a little more, we feel in our hearts that they would likely fit the Somalian town where there were around 300 deaths, but there are not many internet published accounts to read through.
Reincarnazione?? Mah chi lo sa, tutto può essere...
Oh wow to believe your Child is the reincarnation of someone who died in that Tsunami is Just another Level of retarded.
Yes grab the towels. Thos bastards charge your room 30 buck when u lose them
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RULE #1: When you are on the dry and the water goes away from you that fast (it is sucked back by giant water mass) then you grab your basic stuff, leave rest and RUN!
Gee really?
So happy to hear you all made it.
How creepy it is for all of us now that we know how that day ended for everyone on that beach, while we're looking at their real-time vacations and they're having a day in paradise.
They all lived, read the information below the video.
Swchlt: That might be true, but I guarantee they saw some horrific sh*t, when they were supposed to be having the time of their lives. That's the point, surely.
@@TheOrlandoTrustfull That's for sure!
0:47 we can see a wave "bounce" off the shore. If this was bigger, The bouncing wave couldve reached an area opposite to the body of water, and get a few centimeters high even after the initial tsunami.
I did not even realize this
*00:43** The ocean is receding, run!*
They didn't run and just got their towels wet.
it was very scary, my cousin once served in banda aceh indonesia and was a witness of the big tsunami. he said that the incoming waves looked like cobras which made the sky dark (he saw it from the 3rd floor and even the waves were higher). he was able to survive thanks to the motor vehicle left by the owner along with the key
Bro yo cousin on acid or sum shit ☠️
No one has yet to reply, but your father was clearly a very lucky man that day.
oh my god, what happened to the owner of the motor vehicle? you think he ran back to his vehicle to escape the tsunami only to find that it was gone?
ain't that a bitch, running to your car, only to find that it had been stolen by coviidd19's thieving dad.
I learned about tsunami's in geography at my secondary school in the 1970s we were told we probably wouldn't see one in our lifetime - the 2004 tsunami happened on my brother's 40th birthday - we're in UK I woke up really early and had fallen asleep listening to the radio I heard on the news reports of a tsunami were coming in and each update was worse and worse - worked in a supermarket at the time looking after newspapers and magazines I will never forget the front page showing a picture of hundreds of people washed up on a beach all drowned
Some people take all their household items on a vacation.
They spend all their time taking care of the items and some even die protecting their stuff
That's crazy
Exactly leave it there you don’t own it your only borrowing it until you die you can’t take it with you
@@cjj2624 Even our body on which we spend years conditioning and looking good is a temporary place to live in...
Glad you all are safe. That tsunami was the scariest of all.
They wrrent
😂😂😂😂😂😂
By all the recent comments and this being up so long it’s about to go viral. Congratulations.
People should know especially when someone is telling you so and it really is infuriating when people don't listen. It's no different than living with hurricanes or anything else.
I am wondering what did you think of the sudden surge of waves back then? You likely didn't know about the earthquake at Aceh and the resulting horrifying tsunami at that point of time.
I think they didn’t know. They were on then beach. I know after what happens I would not feel safe. Santa Cruz had
2 ft and swamped a boat. They were fortunate.
They're all happy on vacation minutes from disaster unaware that not too far away over 200k Indonesians just died.
Yeah. Anything out of the blue should switch on at least the warning mode on in us.
I would have known it was trouble but I am born in 1975 so maybe we learned more about this stuff then later generations. Sorry but I begin to wonder. Because I have known since I was a kid.
@@erikalulea3608 if the phone ain’t shouting “ danger” everything is ok
People now are are little more than zombies fixated on their phone
These are very deceptive. Unless they appear at 100ft tall, which is an obvious sign, they usually appear as just another wave, but the kind of water mass behind those waves can knock you off your feet and drag you in a matter of seconds. You get to know the true power when they are close and it is too late by then. These people kind of lucky!
So, you're still alive?!!! I'm so happy 😊
this is Graeme from the video now facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158699542521935&set=pb.573726934.-2207520000.&type=3
I remember I was 14 and locked in a juvenile facility when this happened and a staff member had family there. The terror in her face was worse than any of us being bought in on our* first day.
I hope you're having a good life after that rough start. 💓
Before 2004 most people did not know what a tsunami was. Now this one and the japanese one are burned in our minds.
That's sad that people didn't know what a tsunami was before 2004. I knew what it was in the 90s. You'd have to be living under a rock to not know what it is.
@@babyhandgrenade4004 when I was in the USA in calafornia I saw tsunami warning signs on the beach something never seen in europe, coming from europe, it would take me a while to understand what was happening and even more time to get to somewhere safe. However I am much more aware of landslides, so much so I as look for the signs as a common practice. I guess you get used to understanding the risks around you.
maybe you did not know
I’ve seen so many videos of this tsunami and this is the first time I’ve seen this particular one. I knew the water would recede just like that but never actually seen it happen before.
It was my first time in Thailand, I left LHR on the 22/12/2004 with my best pal! Originally we had booked a beach bungalow in patong beach Phuket, the holiday had been booked for about 4 months prior to us leaving the uk! 1 of our friends has heard we was going and called to me advise to travel to ko samui first then hit Phuket after! This call 100% saved our lives 😔. We would have been sleeping on patong beach when it arrived, it was harrowing watching it unfold on the TV in samui. I just want to thank my pal Stuart. Also thank GOD. I have returned to Thailand around 17-18 times since and love the Thai people. God bless all those who lost there life’s 🙏❤️.
Удивляет, как специалисты могли профукать такое масштабное явление и не предупредить людей.
Какое явление ?
Обычный ливень и шторм ?
Вы че там , вообще загоняете ?
Before the 2004 Tsunami, I had only seen one video of a Tsunami once, even I had forgotten that one clue, (that one is coming) is when the water recedes like that, so I can understand the people's lack of concern in this video.
There's a video that compiled every single tsunami/giant wave scene in movies starting from the early 1900's. Before 2004 only a handful of movies did scenes like that. A handful over a span of 100 years. Post 2004 it exploded in movie popularity.
2004 was humanity's great knowledge level up. The ocean is a sleeping monster.
And that was the biggest tsunami of the word. this is very sad. I condole with those people who lost their relatives. I cried
⭐humor
You cried?ah its all good then 🤣
It wasn't
Ocean receeeds. Birds screaming "RUN MOTHER FUCKERS WE ALL GONNA DIE!"
Guy is like, "What a beautiful day in paradise!"
My friend from school was there on holiday when it happened, she emailed us to let us know she survived it and returned home.
When I see a video like that, I always wonder if people in it survived the main wave or the recording was taken from a found phone and just put to the internet by some stranger, because people in it got swept by the wave.
We all survived - thanks for your concern. I was the one that filmed it. We were on the landward side of the island and the wave wasn't that big. I am actually a TV cameraman and went on to film news reports on the Tsunami's aftermath in Sri Lanka, Aceh (Indonesia) and then back in Thailand in Koh Phi Phi and Khao Lak (which were much more badly affected). This is me - www.julianhadden.com
my wife was pregnant with our first child then - and he is just about to turn 16 at the weekend.
@@JulianHadden1 I'm very glad to hear that :)
@@JulianHadden1 aI am glad you are doing well...
@@stacuu2222 why would you think that it was a phone and not an actual camera? People use cameras to film stuff right? Also keep in mind that this was in 2004 and the smartphone with a camera was introduced in 2007 by apple. That was a year that many claim ruined our lives by giving rise to this screen age
Well it's odd to me how this was such a surprise. I remember we heard about the earthquake first, like the night before. And my 80 year old mother right away said, "Uh oh. Tsunami." Okay if my mother could predict this, how come the weather people didn't think of it?
They can in the Atlantic region .....but not in the Indian Ocean at that time
This is probably far away if only such small wave arrived.
@@ligametis very true....but trust me, I would head for higher ground faster than a fart moved in a wind storm ‼️‼️‼️‼️🇨🇦
@@Dutchy-1168 wouldn't you think this was just a larger wave. If you didn't know about any earthquake.
Tsunamis have nothing to do with weather
I remember that my parents were on vacation here only a years prior to this incident and they always tell me about how much it changed everything and our perception of tsunamis.
It’s also so weird to me watching videos from the year I was born or years prior to my birth, especially ones that took place right before disasters. I can’t quite put my finger on why though.
Similar case for me, since I was born a year after 9/11. It's hard to contextualize certain events when you've never experienced them firsthand or on TV.
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 Dude exactly! Seeing old news clips and videos of 9/11 is always super weird for me too. Thinking about the years directly preceding my conception and birth always makes me feel a little “odd” and almost disassociated if that makes sense. It doesn’t help that I listen to a ton of 90’s hip hop that makes me ponder that time period a lot lmaoooo
@@emperorconstantinexipalaio4121 Similar case here. I mean, I listen to a ton of eurobeat despite it being from the 90s and only watching exactly the first season of initial d ONCE. As well as listening extensively to the music my parents, specifically my mother, grew up with in Mexico.
I was born in Germany in 1993. I feel the same way about my parents telling me about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when I was growing up. I got really interested in it and could never quite believe that it happened only 4 years before I was born. My parents were already in adulthood and experiencing it all. It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that WW2 is less than a hundred years ago and that my parents experienced the end of what war had symbolized in Germany.
Would be nice to know the exact location where this video was shot, there doesn't seem to be any high ground nearby
0:43 If the water is doing that. Run, and run fast. Get as high as possible, and don't leave until you are told its afe.
A giant tsunami is rolling in and they’re worries about saving the plastic beach chairs???
Let's remember that this is happened in 2004, back then people weren't familiar with 'tsunamis', these tourists probably thought 'Ah, just another big wave 🌊 , and all will be back soon to normal'.
@@mariaamalbahdad1337 people still behave like that today... and please don't act like 2004 was an ancient time, it's a recent history so...
Do you know it is giant? Most likely this is all there was. Not every location gets full power, in most it arrives already weak, like a bigger wave.
@@mariaamalbahdad1337 wasn't it just a big wave? I mean in most locations it is no longer deadly natural disaster, just a larger wave.
@@macdompeanuts6629 2004 is recent history, so? It does not change the fact that until the Indian Ocean tsunami occurred, tsunami was something a lot of people just know vaguely about.
In 2006, i remember living on phuket for 4 months and driving around and seeing giant boats STILL washed up a mile or 2 ALL THE WAY UP IN LAND!!! ...I hope Phuket has recovered 100% by now. It's 2022.
Same thing in Louisiana from hurricane Katrina, boats inland from the tidal surge .
Whenever the waves start going backwards, that's usually a good sign A) get to high ground immediately, and B) Pray
people like me who have spent their whole lives inland would have no clue. i only know bc of videos like this and my interest in the peak of natural weather disasters happening
Do you not learn it in School. I mean yes I live by coast but knew as a kid what a Tsunami is.
In the words of Iron Maiden....... Run to the Hills 🤘
Up... the... Irons!
Run for your lives!
Damn! Never expected to see another Maiden fan here! Up the Irons! ⚒🤘🤘
В России на уроках основ безопасности жизнедеятельности рассказывают о стихийных бедствиях и что делать при их наступлении. Странно читать в комментариях, что многие не знали об этом до 2004г. Неужели об этом не рассказывают в школах в других странах?
Certamente não, pelo jeito nem os nativos tinham esse conhecimento.
Aqui no Brasil nem existe aulas de noções básicas de segurança.
One of the clearest videos from that year and day
Living near the ocean if I ever saw this I'd be gone straight away. Even living in an area with no tsunamis that type of water receding that quick is a big warning sign
Glad to hear you all made it that day. But the important question is, did you save all that beach gear? (;-P)
0:42 UNBELEAVLE!!!! INSANE AND ABSOLUTE DANGEROUS.
The waves upside down!
Still Impressive! Which Thai island this was filmed?!
One things certain... If you see water reseeds that quick and like that in the day... against tide times. Get in a car or on a bike or run quickly to high ground !
"Look honey! A tsunami. Let's walk back to the room but don't forget the tanning lotion and my beer."
Like anque no te entendi nada xd
This happened when I was a couple of days into an eight day hike. It was quite the news to hear upon coming back to civilisation!
I was there that day. As soon as I saw the water retreating, I ran like crazy
What took them so long to figure out something was wrong?...they just tried to move back at first....this wasn't just a case of high tide
In 2004, people weren't familiar with tsunamis.
Because just like you before this day nobody really knew a few little funny waves and then the ocean receding a little meant hell was on its way
It didn't recede that much, probably this wave was everything that was left from tsunami power.
Where?
it was Ko Ngai, Thailand
Tsunamis have to be the most terrifying thing.
The sound alone is terrifying.
If the water starts going back, u know u gotta run. Geography saves lives 😂
It was nightmare. We had no idea at all at that time. 😭😭
TSUNAMI : Water level getting higher and higher .
Them: Ok , let me first get my chairs and my pink lipstick too
I live in hawaii.. grew up learning the warning and dangers of tsunamis.. i hope they do the same to tourists
U can actually see the waves moving backwards by 10 meters, that just means the the tsunami is sucking in the water
Holy crap! How did they manage to survive?
Yeh, I know. This wave was a whole 1m at best. It looses its power, and in many locations it is no longer serious, at least nothing more than what you get during a storm.
The tsunami probably didn't go past that in this location
I know right ha a minor inconvenience at best
Never ceases to amaze me how powerful Mother Nature can be
For those who don't know, this tsunami is so powerful my friend in Malaysia, Thailand and Phillipine also affected, can you imagine that?
No
Never under estimate Mother Nature
Karma ☹️😈
Tsunami or not , the moment I see nature getting remotely agitated , I promptly leave the place . You NEVER know what's coming next .
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was sitting in a restaurant in Chicago watching the news as it happened.
I was on Pi pi Don island a few days before this happened. Only saw my hotel room on TV when I came back home, with a fishing boat sitting snug inside the suite.
That was no freak wave when it’s happening all around. Pack up & get the hell out of there fast!
This is probably a really dumb question. But is there anyway if you were an experienced sailor you could ride the waves
I think if you're out on the ocean you don't even notice it.
Yes, you can ride the waves. Into the nearest building. In a tsunami the whole body of water is moving inlands. There's nothing to ride in the open seas and you don't want to be anywhere near a wave when they are close to the shore.
Isn’t that Koh Ngai resort? I was there twice. Was that only the beginning ? Or this island was saved from severe damages
I was at Patong Beach, Phuket Thailand when the waves came in. That was crazy.