The final pictures on their camera are heartbreaking
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It should be common knowledge that a receding tide is a sign of a tsunami for everyone who lives in a beach state. Hell, what's the harm in putting up signs that warn it on beaches?
How many lives could be saved by normal low tide markers and tsunami warning signs?!?
watch the animals behavior they seem to be smarter then so called evolved human beings. most of us have evolved into idiots and stooges.
@@ElCid48 who hurt you?
@@ukraineme96 just a guess but I think it was YOUR mum
@@ukraineme96 Besides the humans being "idiots" he is speaking the truth. The animals would seek shelter and act weird asf and it could be a sign of a natural disaster.
Many elephants who had tourists riding them inexplicably went further inland as opposed to the seaside where they normally went, one to two hours before the tsunami hit in Thailand in 2004, even though their guides told them not to and would strike them. Thousands of lives were saved because of those elephants that day.
in thailand in 2004?
Heard this too & that animals suddenly inexplicably scampering to higher ground elevations is a sign for people to immediately do the same.
How dare they strike those elephants 😤
~i nevr knew tht...thts an incredible truth..if thts true...
~did the elephants jst go knwing somthng was coming...!?~by instinct..?
~tht is jst a really cool truth..!!
**i jst read more comments...wow thts amazing..!!
@@MatthewBaran It makes my blood boil when people mistreat any animal. Those idiot handlers should have known how elephants know instinctively when danger is near. I wish the elephant had turned on him.
No one understood the warning sign. So many victims. I met refugees that had come to Sweden previously from the Aceh province. And their whole island were gone. I just can’t imagine everyone you ever knew, or went to school with or had as a neighbor. Anyone you’d have met at the market. Every adult, every child. All of them gone. 😔💔
Tsunamis are so scary. As an American who came to Japan to study, one of the first things I received from my new school was an information packet about what to do when a Tsunami or an earthquake struck. Being from the rural south in a landlocked state, the only natural disasters we really have are tornadoes, so I had never been taught before what to do when a tsunami hit. There were so many rules to learn so quickly. Get to high ground, or in an earthquake, find a sturdy doorway to stand beneath, etc… It’s just too much information to take in all at once. I was lucky because I was given this information when I first moved. However, what if I was a tourist? I look at all those westerners in the images, casually walking along the beach obliviously while a tsunami rushes towards them on the horizon. They weren’t told what to do. They probably lived in landlocked states just like me, and had 0 chance because of their ignorance of the situation. It gives me chills. I wish everyone was taught what to do in these situations, even though 99% of Americans will never face one. Maybe these people would have been able to escape.
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@@nickc4333 Vi höll en minnesstund men vad säger du till någon i den situationen?
Actually, there was a little girl in one of the resorts who had just studied tsunamis in school and alerted people.
@@thedankestmemes1116 I'm an American and I taught myself enough about Japan to know what to expect and how to react to earthquakes and tsunamis. It's not Japan's job to educate Americans who visit anymore than it is Americans' jobs to educate foreigners visiting the US. The travel agencies should have the basic info necessary for suggestions about what to watch for or the American Embassy in Japan can point you in the right direction. I'm sure visitors to the US from other countries contact their embassies or travel agencies before they leave their home country.
This short just told me whenever the water had receded, just "FREAKIN RUN TO THE UPPER TERRAIN !!!!"
Or be like Obi Wan and have the high ground
If the ocean ever leaves, it will soon be back in force.
"AH CRIPE!"
**proceeds to sticky jump**
My then husband and myself were flying over the tsunami when it was making its way to Malaysia and Thailand. Didn't know it had happened until the pilot announced that an earthquake had occurred and aftershocks were to be expected but no mention of the tsunami. Landing at Bangkok Airport we transferred to our hotel and were given a room on the 23rd floor. Switching on the TV to BBC Worldservice the images coming from Banda Aceh, Koh Samui, Phukett just didn't register, it was too much to comprehend. Didn't sleep much for four days knowing how many people were assumed dead and possible aftershocks. We then travelled to Langkawi, Malaysia which had miraculously not had any fatalities but lots of injured and destruction. Feeling utterly useless our only way of helping was to spend as much money as we could afford with local people, anything to help them rebuild their lives. Will never forget that time, and the spirit of the people who despite their hardship were still able to care for us.
God bless you, you are a caring person who did all you could to help
God punishes them, and you spend your money helping them?
You spent your hard-earned cash on THEM? Idiot!
@@johanna5688 Your the Idiot We Humans must Love and Help each Other .🌅😊🌅
@@johanna5688 Are you for fricking real? It's not God's punishment, you idiot. Bad stuff happens to good people. Ever hear of the crucifixion? Duh!
Years ago I was staying in a hotel on Santa Cruz beach. Walked out on the balcony and seen the water way out. Told front desk on my way out. They looked at me like I was crazy. Thank god it was a small one! Great story sir 👍❤️
I’m native to the SC area and this is statement is complete BS. There is no such thing as a “small” tsunami. You probably just didn’t realize what low tide is. Even the earthquakes that we’ve had did not cause a tsunami.
@@JustAGalOnTheGo March of 2011, after the big earthquake in Japan, a Tsunami hit Santa Cruz, destroyed a lot of boats in the harbor, and swept a man out to sea up north.
@@CryptidWalksThat is technically not the same. This was basically a back surge from a tsunami elsewhere. The 2011 tsunami surge that hit Santa Cruz, while it did cause a lot of damage to boats in the harbor, it was a 3 foot surge from the tsunami in Japan. There was a massive forewarning (hence the videos you can find online) but did not rush up the land and can not in any way be compared to a full blown tsunami like the story. You have google. I live here.
@@JustAGalOnTheGo thanks Karen
@@JustAGalOnTheGo I'm native to SC, and i call BS on your call of bs...i was there that day, and you don't get to gatekeep because you're a local. You're right, the harbor took the hit of the tsunami, but like mrballen said, there is a phenomenon of water rushing way out before the "big one" hits. Good day sir!!
People need to learn to pay attention to mother nature and when to run, bet the like button would've run!
Well, back then people didn't know the early signs since it was this tsunami that taught the world about it - but in this case, yeah, I would say they got really late to the conclusion that water masses running at them are probably not the best circumstances one can be in.
Having lived on the Oregon coast most of my life, I can tell you how many people actually drive to the beach to watch when they predict a tsunami, it requires police to get rid of them.
Lived in Florida as a kid, and used to be amazed at how many people--besides idiotic weathermen--would flock to the beach when hurricanes were due to make landfall. I thought my mother was nuts to fill bathtubs, sinks and buckets with water at our house……..until I saw mud coming from the faucets during the worst of the storms. I’d been afraid of the flying coconuts but running out of fresh water was a much likelier event.
@@judywright4241 sightseers are the worst, but we didn't have hurricane season. Now in tornado land, Tulsa, had 2 f1 Sunday night within 5 miles of me. 🙄
How about the King tides, too.. oregon rocks
Make your loved ones in Oregon aware of the incoming Cascadia Subduction Zone 9.0 MW megaearthquake and subsecuent tsunami.
It may save lifes...
@@alaysiakayebutler6299 yes, the sneaker waves are worse then. The tourists climb up on the driftwood logs,and the waves roll the log over the ppl. Also, ppl climb up on the rocks and cliffs,and get stranded by the tides. Coast guard rescue .
"Here are final pictures, that were on that SIM ca..."
**video cuts**
link to full story above
I know right!?
I know!! I said damnit Mr. Ballen. He showed some but I wanted to see all of them...
The tsunami hit.
I think that's actually the intended end of the video. It was rather abrupt but it makes sense that would've been the end of the video even though he barely got the word "card" out. It makes sense with the final picture, too. It was incredibly close and about to hit so I imagine they weren't exactly interested in taking one more photo. So yeah, it may have seemed like it ended rather abrupt but I believe that was where the video was supposed to end. They just trimmed it down to the last word and ended it.
That is exactly the same thing as people driving into tornadoes. In 20 yrs of storm chasing, I witnessed that over and over again.
When all the water disappears, run.
One thing for sure. The 2005 Tsunami taught everyone in the world (who survived) what a low tide condition like that really meant. Head for the hills!
Everyone knows the tsunami signs now. If you don’t you’ve been living under a rock.
@@tiddlesa.6125 thats bs. Why would someone who doesnt even live in a country where that happens know that? Just look at europe why would most of them care to know.
@Tiddles A. I've been living under a rock then, I just learned this
@@passcal2108 I live nowhere near a tsumani zone and have never visited one, but I have known for years. Pretty common knowledge at this point, it's very easy to explain to someone that extreme low tide means run.
Haven't you guys seen the documentary "San Andreas?"
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It's hard to imagine that when people see this happening that they have no ideal of what's going to happen next.
I don't live no where near a shore but would know to run like hell if I seen this happening.
Yes. It's so sad they all had no clue. 😥
@@missycitty9478 it seems to me that any place that has tourists should put warning ⚠️ signs up to warn people of danger's that they may not be accustomed to in their daily life's.
I'm still amazed at the people who haven't common sense to avoid driving in flood waters in their own areas.
With all the technology that we have and people don't know how to even begin to fend for themselves or how to stay safe out of their immediate domain or living area.
@@chriscoker7794 Yes, I completely agree.
I would have known instantly, when I saw that, what was about to happen. And that's because I learned it in my every day life experiences.
But yes, I agree, there should be warning signs for tourists or even small classes to take while on vacation near these types of areas so people can be aware.
It really is so sad.
and when it happens in 100 or 200 years people will just look and say dang that is a really low tide right before they are drowned.
No you wouldn't. Especially with the calm environment. As a tourist you are unfamiliar with the behavior of the tide. I have seen people send pictures of the tide where I live to weather RUclipsrs saying something was going to happen or the STRANGE tide..no the bay just goes empty in low low tide. You can walk for miles and if you do reach the water continue to walk for a few more in ankle deep water. I have sent my own pictures with a lower tide explaining nothing abnormal in fact it's not even a low tide.. Those pictures didn't even look like our bay on a low tide. So you would just start running to higher ground? That would be one heck of a run and would be ridiculous. The problem is this usually happens in places people are visiting. They have no idea about what's normal and what's not. They see many other people looking like nothing is going on. Even people that were locals were not worried. It happens way to fast. There is a very low tide and than even if someone saw that wave coming and they started running right then it wouldn't have made a difference. The size and speed of a tsunami is something that happens so fast people don't have time. It gets faster and bigger the closer it comes to shallow shores. You don't know your in danger until it is way to late. There was many smart people who passed in that tsunami because we didn't have the system we do today to actually warn people ahead of time.
The only real clue was the animal behavior and that wouldn't have been noticed by any or wouldn't until it was an after thought. We hope we would act may even think we would but unfortunately that isn't the case.
I was taught at a very early age that an extreme low tide was a warning sign for a tsunami; especially after an earthquake
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Having lived on pacific islands for most of my life, it still shocks me how many ppl just do not have the knowledge of how it works. They’re from landlocked places where a tsunami is alien as heck to them, and you just want to yell at the photos, “RUN!!!”.. but it’s always far too late.
Tragic and terrible strength and power - oceans rule.. quietly.. most of the time.
When the water disappears, you better run for the hills..
As soon as i heard beach and low tide i know it will gonna be tsunami
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It's an older episode, just cut down for the short. He has the full video link in the description
@@blacklabel3980 I know I've watched it but I still get excited when I get a notification that he's uploaded a video
From their early childhood I told my daughters that if they see the waters recede…run like hell. They still talk about that to this day.
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Yeah, I immediately said "Tsunami, GTFO!" out of reflex at that low tide.
I was tought that extreme low tides are early tsunami warnings so I had a similar reaction to you my friend
its kinda crazy that some people dont know, like that water has to be SOMEWHERE if it isnt there...
@@johnsmith3232 Yeah, I mean if you don't know *what* it means, I'd think it'd be clear it's something bad, and then to watch that water rushing in...from what I've heard, you can hear and feel it coming. Not sure how true that is, as I haven't studied tsunamis in-depth, but they're one of the most terrifying natural disasters imo, along with tornadoes and earthquakes.
@@noahtheguy1828 😉
@@Sick_Boy one of the most foolproof ways I keep myself safe in weather events before they happen is, listen to the wildlife. only the animals have evolved without technology to be able to sense when something is going to happen, inland animals will move to higher ground and birds will fly away as fast as possible, so it is also a very good idea to familiarize yourself with this behavior and follow :D
It will definitely happen again. People seem to enjoy filming their own deaths
to be fair unless u knew it was a indication of a tsunami/tidal wave alot of ppl would take pictures if the tide suddenly changes to low tide
If you were there you'd be equally oblivious to what was about to happen
I knew from reading “Island of the Blue Dolphins” 35 years ago. And from paying attention in elementary school.
And thank God we get rid of stupids like that, filming their own deaths. They don't deserve to live.
@Astral Bastard Never mind Mr Ballan. We all watched the tsunami on TV back in 2004.
UR SO GOOD AT TELLING STORIES!!!!
They aren't "tidal waves", tide has nothing to do with it. They are called tsunami, meaning harbor wave. Tsunami has no plural, like deer. The 'low tide' is called a draw down, where the water goes toward the ocean because of the tsunami, the water displacement does that.
You are correct.
Ooh look a 50 foot wall of water.
It's getting closer!
It's really getting closer!
OH $HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You shouldn't go visit places without asking what danger's you should be on the lookout for. Poisonous snakes, spider's, tree's,shrubs, sinkholes and the list goes on and on.
Get familiar with your surroundings to stay safe.
And other dangers like randomly putting apostrophes in words nowhere near where they belong. Things like that.
Dangers. Spiders. Trees. It's baffling why you didn't on some words but did on others.
@@carlicehouse 😆
Why are trees a danger
@@Gingerninja44 certain trees in certain areas can send you to the hospital for just touching or walking under. Sap can drip on you to seed pods exploding, not to mention some of the fruits.
@@carlicehouse baffling? Well try not to waste much time figuring it out.
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@@robbiemorrow3473 Truché
So sad! God bless them all! 💜
Amen🙏🏻❤️
The tsunami in 2004 had an average speed of 500 mi/h. In Banda aceh to reach the heights of 51 m which equals 167 ft High. A smaller one was 39 ft. Which is still the size of a three-story building if not higher. You have absolutely no hope in outrunning that. You have no hope and getting high enough. 167 ft going at that speed is an unimaginable and completely incredible force. Something people can not comprehend.
The enormous speed is through deep water. Tsunamis slow down dramatically as they approach the shore. That makes the wave much taller near land.
I look at the final photos as a gift to their family, & friends.
Good morning Mr Ballen!!!
How do people not know what this means? I live nowhere near the ocean and even I know this. 🤷🤦
Me too.
Yes me too. My mother described the ocean releasing and people flocking to pick up sea shells that were left then the water racing back in and sweeping people out into the ocean. She didn't know the word tsunami so she didn't call it that. I'm still looking for a tsunami to have hit the Pacific side of Mexico about the 1930s, 40s or even 50s. Maybe state of Colima or Jalisco. Let me know if anyone reading knows.
Growing up with the ocean I knew immediately what was going to happen and it didn't make it any better. It's sad all the way around and it never gets easier.
On this day, 26 December 2004, we were at the beach in St Lucia, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The sea was very rough and had intense waves. We thought nothing of it until we went home and saw what was happening on the other side of the Indian Ocean on the news. I am thankful for living in South Africa- a land mostly spared from the extreme of the mothership.
Very sad. Esp considering weather & science observers have known about this tidal "rubber band" effect since, at least, the horrific Galveston TX tsunami flood of 1900. These massive waves can be caused by both earthquakes & hurricane related atmospheric pressure vacuums far out at sea. Approx 8,000 people died in TX because of a hurricane tsunami.
What are you talking about? There was no tsunami flood in Galveston TX in 1900. That was a category 4 HURRICANE. We have NEVER had a tsunami. EVER. I think you mean storm surge.
Yes, I saw a documentary on this and the pictures of the before and aftermath are etched in my brain. Even in black and white the shock on the people's faces that survived were haunting. The storm surge is what killed most of them. The part that really got to me, well it all did, was that the nuns at the orphanage tied rope around themselves to the children thinking they could save them that way. In reality it assured that they would all drown. Heartbreaking.
@@zeldapinwheel7043 It was more than just rising storm surge. All day the shoreline water & tide kept moving further & further out to sea, instead of rolling in, leaving hundreds of yards of open exposed sea bed. The people living in Galveston had never seen this before & this wasn't the first time hurricanes had happened in or near Galveston. Later that evening the hurricane vacuum released & the water came rushing back in at such speed it wiped out everything in its path. If you want to call it storm surge, fine. But the water withdrawal & subsequent release was very "tsunami". (Typhoon? Hurricane? Language semantics.)
@@coleengoodell7523 Yes, it's one of those stories few people have heard about, unless you live in the area. The aftermath was horrendous, homes & buildings washed away & piled on top of each other, with people inside. There's an interesting book about it, "Isaac's Storm". It goes into good detail about all the ignored signs that led up to that night. And how modern weather forecasting developed from it.
@@elmerbefuddled2156 yes, storm surge can do that. I live in the area, I'm very familiar with the history, and the weather here. And we still have high tides and low tides. Between the storm and low tide, a lot of water receded. And when the tide came back in, there was a storm surge as the hurricane moved towards Galveston. All the wind (cat 4 is over 140 mph winds) pushing all the water ahead of the storm. I see what you're saying, but the effect isnt quite the same, and the cause isn't the same. A tsunami is a lot more sudden, caused by an earthquake, and gets bigger as it comes closer to land. Storm surge is different. And there was still a hurricane dumping rain, pushing water ahead of it, a ton of wind damage, and water behind it. It was 140+mph winds, storm surge, and incredible amounts of rain, all at the same time.
And probably people coming out to check on things when they were in the eye of the storm and it calmed temporarily.
Truly horrific and tragic. 230,000 people perished that day. Heartbreaking 😢💔
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Imagine the terror when you realize that a Tsunami was coming after you and you didn’t notice until it finally came when you had enough time.. RIP
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Interesting, I would think everyone would know what an extreme low tide means.. it means run.
"Run for it?"
"No lets take some pics"
Modern day phycology
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Good morning!! Very sad 😢
*Did no one watch any tsunami movie or something? Like, there's even real footage of early signs.*
Good morning!!! ☀️
Wow, the last ever photos they took were literally of death coming towards them.
You should do the Chris Watz case
If the water receded that much anyone should know that it’s coming back full force.
thats sad but now we know how tsunamis form
I already knew when he said extremely low tide
I was thinking in my head thank god i was not their and i wish one of those people on the beach knew this and alerted everybody
R.I.P to the people on the beach
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If they saw this wave coming why did they keep taking pictures instead of getting the hell outta there ?
They probably didn’t realize or look that far out…..
Why don't you just ask what were they on? There's your answer. They were fuzzy-brained.
Lesson noted. Hopefully, I'll never need it, or be sober enough to take advantage of it
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This make me think of the video of a man alone at the beach facing the wave not realizing it was a big one coming right at him. He completely disappeared. I wonder if his body was ever found.
I used to live in Papua-New Guinea. I visited a remote coastal village that had been washed away by a tidal wave.
(Fortunately, no one was killed because the houses were on on supports and were made of kunai grass. So people just got banged up.)
Anyhow, that's exactly what they said. The ocean receded hundreds of metres so fast fish were flopping about on the exposed sand.
Those poor people children and animals!🙏🙏🙏🙏💜💙💗💕💗💙💙💜
So sad and heartbreaking!
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Rest in peace this people
These places were and still are overcrowded.
Cameras don't use SIM cards. Handheld mobile phones use SIM cards. SIM is the abbreviation for Subscriber Identification Module. Why would a camera use a SIM card? Digital cameras can accept SD cards and some of them can use USB pendrives or other data-storing devices to store the pictures.
Yikes! Sad so many people died from this but, nature is a powerful beast. Rest in peace to them all.
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Incidentally some people did know that the tsunami was coming. Most famously ten year old British tourist Tilly Smith had just finished learning about tsunamis in her science class a couple of weeks earlier so she recognized what the super low tide meant and managed to convince her parents about the impending disaster. They in turn warned the staff and all the people nearby to get to higher ground. All told she saved about 100 lives. And to think some people say kids learn nothing useful in school!
Similarly the Moken people spend their entire lives in and around the sea so it was culturally important to them and their oral histories had preserved knowledge of what tsunamis looked like. They and some of the tourists who'd been traveling with them that day all got to safety.
Okay to be fair my first instinct was not “oh tsunami”.
BUT it was well the waters gonna end up coming back and with what kind of force…
I would never go stand on the beach to watch it happen?! People who have never been in a life threatening situation think they’re invincible.
Or just cannot grasp something could snatch their lives away without antecipated notice
I once survived a tsunami
in a dream
I wonder if some of them tried to hold there breath and ride it out, either way rip
Crazy how the people were waiting for the wave to come 🤔
Crazy? Out of their minds on who knows what.....
That final picture is grim .... nobody could survive getting hit at point blank by that sheer power.
His channel is a survivor guide.
RIP
i spoke with a former resident she told me they will never know how many lost there lives!
as soon as i hear low tide, i knew. one of my biggest fears is tsunamis, if the tide is even just a bit lower than usual, im outta there.
Interesting as usual 😊
Life lesson number 1: when the ocean goes away, run the other way.
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Shouldn't it be a SD card or TF card? Sim cards are identity cards for phones, not data storage.
Yeah lol
We all knew what he meant, 🤷🏻♂️
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I thought it was common knowledge that when the water recedes a tsunami is coming
I tell all my children to run inland if there is an abnormal low tide!
Don't look!
Don't wait!
Just run uphill as far as you can!
Here in Hawaii, we get the hell up to higher ground when the tsunami warnings go out. I lived right at water’s edge for one of these warnings due to a big earthquake in Alaska. I loaded up some valuables and headed to the cliffs above a narrow inlet. It would be a spectacular place to view, but thankfully, we got only a two inch rise above normal.
Looks beautiful but sad
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Lol as soon as he said about the water receding i knew it was a tsunami
As soon as he said something about the extreme low tide I knew right then and there it was something to do with a tsunami.
I looked at the thumbnail for this video on my tiny phone screen and thought "Jeez Mark Harmon has put on some weight round the waist" Doh!
I thought it was an overweight Mark Harmon too!!!!!!
It is not called a "sim card".. it's called a "memory card"
How heartbreaking. You can see people walking on the beach having no clue. 💔😢
Sad story.
Was John & Jackie from west Vancouver BC?
Please post more lost episodes..