Tsunami Story 1
I bored you already about our Dive instructor Alexs' sailing boat the Sampai Jumpa which takes divers out for 4 or 8 day live aboards, so i won't go on about how amazing it is. Anyway... it caters for deaf divers and disabled divers (you would think most boats would do this, as everybody is deaf underwater, except deaf people who can communicate perfectly with sign, but their boat is only one of very few).
They sailed from Phuket just before Christmas day and headed for the Burma Banks, and then the Similan Islands. On the morning of December 26th they began a dive, there were about 6 divers plus another 2 dive masters, and another guy videoing the dive.
About half way through the dive the current begins to pick up, thinking its abit wierd they all start swimming against the current, the current gets stronger and stronger, the video guy is worried about loosing his expensive dive camera, so turns it off and holds tight, then the current is so strong that they have to hold onto rocks and coral on the sea bed, it gets stronger still and the rocks and coral begin to break,....suddenly it's over, the visibility has gone from 30m+ to about 10 centimeters, everybody has lost everbody else, so they begin to surface, slowly people start popping up on the surface, spread out, but not to far, they all swim back to the boat, and have lunch totally oblivious to the fact they have just dived through the biggest tsunami ever, which went on to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Alex was never on the boat, he was recovering from a killer hangover in a cafe in Bangkok, he ignored the first 5 people who called him on his mobile to tell him something bad had happened, but when his head cleared enough for him to check out the television he realised that he could of just lost his entire lifes savings which were tied up in the boat. He can't get down to Phuket because they closed off whole of southern thailand.
After a night dying of worry and stress he finally gets a call from his best mate on the boat having only just sailed close enough to land to realise what they survived.
The killer part of the story is that Skys Discovery Channel heard about what had happened and flew out to make a documentary about the boat, they offered the video diver $100,000 for the footage he had from in the tsunami, ofcourse though, he had turned the camera off. GUTTED.
However in true Sky tv style, they faked the footage and the program can be seen occasionally repeated on the Discovery Channel.
Check out their website 'world wide dive and sail'
They sailed from Phuket just before Christmas day and headed for the Burma Banks, and then the Similan Islands. On the morning of December 26th they began a dive, there were about 6 divers plus another 2 dive masters, and another guy videoing the dive.
About half way through the dive the current begins to pick up, thinking its abit wierd they all start swimming against the current, the current gets stronger and stronger, the video guy is worried about loosing his expensive dive camera, so turns it off and holds tight, then the current is so strong that they have to hold onto rocks and coral on the sea bed, it gets stronger still and the rocks and coral begin to break,....suddenly it's over, the visibility has gone from 30m+ to about 10 centimeters, everybody has lost everbody else, so they begin to surface, slowly people start popping up on the surface, spread out, but not to far, they all swim back to the boat, and have lunch totally oblivious to the fact they have just dived through the biggest tsunami ever, which went on to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Alex was never on the boat, he was recovering from a killer hangover in a cafe in Bangkok, he ignored the first 5 people who called him on his mobile to tell him something bad had happened, but when his head cleared enough for him to check out the television he realised that he could of just lost his entire lifes savings which were tied up in the boat. He can't get down to Phuket because they closed off whole of southern thailand.
After a night dying of worry and stress he finally gets a call from his best mate on the boat having only just sailed close enough to land to realise what they survived.
The killer part of the story is that Skys Discovery Channel heard about what had happened and flew out to make a documentary about the boat, they offered the video diver $100,000 for the footage he had from in the tsunami, ofcourse though, he had turned the camera off. GUTTED.
However in true Sky tv style, they faked the footage and the program can be seen occasionally repeated on the Discovery Channel.
Check out their website 'world wide dive and sail'
posted by Chris at 7:14 AM
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