My work colleague was on holiday in Phuket when the tsunami struck. His hotel room was a beach hut, which he was inside when the tsunami struck. He says it was like being inside a washing machine being tumbled around. He and his girlfriend survived, but lost every item that they had apart from what they were wearing at the time. He'll never forget it.
@@gerben2559so what if he lost everything he had with him while he was on holiday. So many people died and lost their homes and livelihoods.😢. He was actually extremely lucky.
@@jr.fidelcastro8890 there are a few accounts of cameras that were recovered from the wreckage that included salvageable footage of the incoming waves
@@jr.fidelcastro8890the person who took the photo might have survived, but yes, it's highly likely most of these people died. Also, why wouldn't a camera found in the wreckage be collected and its pictures checked?
A colleague of me, knowing that I had already been in Thailand, once told me that me that her sister wanted to go on holiday in Thailand with her family and asked me if I thought it was a good idea. I said “Sure, Thailand is a very nice place to go on holiday to, certainly during the winter in Europe”. I met her again a couple of months later and she told me “You know, my sister went on holiday in Thailand. They were there during the Christmas period of 2004 and nobody, her or her family came back.”. I think about them every time this tsunami is mentioned and cannot help feeling somewhat guilty for their death.
Their deaths were already written. Please don’t blame yourself you gave an opinion based on your experience. Everyone takes risks when they go on holiday. No one could have predicted such a huge disaster. They are with God now.
Still breaks my heart to see this , so many don’t know how to read the Ocean . Those pics of the ocean drawn back like that and people Mesmerized, oohhh my 🙏🏼
with due respect most people don't live near or work on the ocean. a lot of people think of the ocean as a big lake. that's why until twenty years ago the idea that a cruise ship could be sunk by a wave was considered a joke. even the Japanese painting a of a Tsunami was considered a one-hundred-year event. we had two major tsunamis in less than a ten-year period. still though it must be shocking to see that in person. my god rest their souls
My daughter was in grade 4 and had just written her exams on tsunamis that year. When reports came through we immediately knew a tsunami was going to happen
@@zibbieLa Sicurezza prima di tutto. L' ultimo terremoto in Giappone ha causato uno tsunami ...😢😢 10 minuti dopo la scossa impossibile mettersi in salvo per chi fosse stato all' interno della propria abitazione.
Maybe because it's something that their not normally exposed to, but I do know that when the water pulls out, I mean all the water! It has to come back! You head for high ground! But some people are looking for sea shells and weren't looking at the sea, it's another video from the view of a hotel and they were screaming (and some crying) for the people to get out of there because they could clearly see what was coming to no avail! And then they realized it, it was right on top of 'em and they could see how high the waves were, some tried to run while others just stood to accept their fates and it was about 10 to 12 people out'dere 😢 the locals ran, that's why it's a good idea to learn the local language so you can understand especially in a situation like this!! Or just do as they do and run like hell and find out why you're running away from later!! God rest their souls...😇🙏🏼🥺😢
when the water leaves you should leave immediate also......this should be basic knowledge - aswell as not building too close to water...it´s unpredictable
The water doesn't always recede, that's Hollywood and 'luck of the dice' so to speak...or you are actually seeing the trough between the waves. Depending on where you are in relation to the tsunami is the prime factor of the water receding...if where you are experiences the apex of the wave first, all you are going to get is the build up water, no Hollywood drawback for warning. I read about tsunamis from a edition of Boy's Life ( a scouting magazine ) when I was 10 years old... It never ceases to amaze me how little grown adults don't understand their own environment the further we get into this technological age, sure not everybody can be Bear Grylls but just having a basic understanding of the biggest dangers a certain area could pose to you or your family is...well, it's your job as a protector.
The Japanese Tsunami, of 2011, in a sense rewrote the Tsunami of 2004. The magnitude of the force of the water was clear to see in the HD videos. The videos and picture of the damage caused by the water, after the event, was somewhat baffling. After the Japanese Tsunami the HD videos were a shocking realization of the power of the water.
I think it must have been so shocking and Awe-inspiring that so many didn't realize until it was too late. Seems obvious in hindsight. Especially for someone like me who has spent almost two decades surfing around the world. I do think that the average tourist just didn't realize what was going on. The most incredible thing to happen in my lifetime.
Watching this has given me goosebumps. I was in Phuket, Thailand when it happened on 26th December 2004. Anything 200m from the beach inland was smashed, wrecked or damaged. 😢
I had actually been planning to go, but decided not to. Was living/ teaching in Hong Kong at the time. One month later, on Jan. 27th, I was thrown/ pitched head-first down a double-decker bus stairwell on my way home from my uni teaching job. Lost everything, including 3" in height from the force of the literal head-first impact (my head met the accelerating bus stairwell wall. The driver had gunned-it when the light turned green, as I was descending in advance of my stop). Guess, if something's gonna get you, it will. My life has been imperiled and saved multiple times. Maybe, my 50+ years on a dedicated spiritual path has helped. I often watch these vids, trying to come to terms with what happened. Japan, too. Glad you survived, Paul, and hope you're living a good life now. We're amongst the lucky ones...
1:25 I can understand that people didn't know anything about the tsunami, but they see in front of them a wall of water two palm trees high, moving at great speed and making a terrible sound!!! Where is the instinct of self-preservation in these people?!
Someone on the comments section said that it’s a montage, and if you look carefully the people look kinda pasted, the photo doesn’t show their feet touching the ground.
@@natanhaelalvarado6137There are many videos of people standing then running away from the sea. Where you get the idea they are pasted on to the picture is beyond me.
@AnitaDil He's just another idiot conspiracy theorist. I run into this conspiracy theorist crap all the time on RUclips ; and because I'm 76 I've seen a lot of wild unbelievable stuff in my day, some of which I've seen with my own eyes but they'll always be somebody who says it's CGI or it's a hoax. College helps. Or just reading.
Yes this. They froze. I’ve also been in situations where people have massively underestimated velocity and distance in the face of a threat. Large ships coming towards them for example. Or other large things coming across water. These people are not used to the sea.
I was there in Khao Lak as a volunteer, rebuilding, clearing up etc few weeks later. We had to run one night when there was another earthquake and an expected tsunami ( that never came ). Bodies and various things were still being washed up weeks and months later
People see the cresting wave and fail to understand that the entire top of the sea is now at that elevation. The Tsunami actually extends back miles behind that initial wave.
@@topangus123 I knew we could count on you. But would you have known that 20 years ago, before this happened. After the fact all of us are men and women of wisdom. Other than that, at low tide water always recedes. If you never seen before water retreating more than usual after a tsunami, you would be there looking and wondering, "What's going on?" By the time you figure out something is wrong, is probably too late.
In some pics going around you can see some running and others not like some knew what draw back meant and others were just fascinated, but if I saw others running I'd run too 😅
WOW😨! @1:22 With the Tsunami that close and the ppl just standing around right their in the tsunami pathway and not running away I wonder how many ppl die in that image😞
My late Dad was born in 1927 and grew up spending summers in Stone Harbor at the NJ coast. He said twice, two different summers, when he was a teen, before he turned 18 and had to join WW11, that a huge rogue wave came in. It can happen again here on the east coast, you never know. Mid atlantic fault shifting a bit maybe.
When I was a young seaman many years ago couple of ships I was on went over some tsunami waves. They were just like a big ripple in the middle of the ocean. We never knew the massive damage they could do when they hit a continental shelf and just get more & more awesome as they head for the shore.
RIP to all poor souls that lost life on that fateful day. I was 14 years old and this was all foggy in my memory. I feel so sad about everyone my age, early 2000s were so traumatic for us born 1990… same goes for 9/11 events.. this was all very hard on our innocent young souls.. i feel sorry for everyone who lost someone in this tragic event.
son 2 cosas diferentes, algo premeditado contra un evento de la naturaleza. En el primero, si estabas en el lugar equivocado, tu muerte estaba sentenciada, pero aquí muchos se pudieron haber salvado si hubieran tenido un mínimo de cultura oceánica . Es igual que te quedes parado al lado del volcán cuando entra en erupción. Te avisa antes .
I've heard that before and that's sooo sad! Kids today are dealing with school shootings and Covid. Waaay to much heartaches for anyone so young to have to deal with!! Hope you've seen some healing!!!
Back then tsunamis were very rare events and this one was the first one to be recorded in history so that's why people reacted too slow to save themselves.
Not true. There are photos of the 1923 Kantō tsunami in Japan, the 1929 tsunami at Newfoundland, the 1946 tsunami that hit Hawai, the 1979 tsunami in France, etc.
@@lephebe1887 At that time, in that place, Tsunamis YES were rare... they did not have the proper equipment or control stations for this type of natural disaster that would give early warning of what was coming... not because a specific country has suffered a Tsunami before, means that the other countries of the world already know how to avoid it, especially one that does not suffer from these things. For example, my country Paraguay has nothing to deal with hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or anything like that, because we don't suffer from it... at least not yet.
I live far away from any coastline and I know (even when I was a child because my dad told me. He knows how to recognize the signs because of a book) when to run for the hills
Puedo entender que no supieran que estaba pasando y se quedaran curiosos mirando, pero a partir del minuto 1: 12 se ve claramente y muy cerca ya una pared de agua alta, turbia, el ruido debería ser ensordecedor y a partir del minuto 1:22 , la tienen casi encima, no se dan cuenta en ese momento lo alto que iba el mar y que tenían a 100 200 metros esa pared de agua muy tempestuosa directo a ellos? Creían que antes de llegar a sus pies ese monstruo de agua se iba a detener? Porqué no corren? Yo vivo muy cerca del mar y nunca he visto un tsunami, pero si hubiera visto ese horror estaría corriendo como alma que me lleva el diablo, no miraría atrás. No puedo entender la pasividad de esas personas. Saben que no es normal, se ve una pared de agua terrorífica y estoy segura que el sonido sería atronador, y siguen ahí mirando, grabando , tan tranquilos. Supongo que el de la cámara se salvó, sino no tendríamos estas imágenes tan impactantes
What is puzzling to me is how when the ocean went out that far and then returned if the for of a 30ft wave that probably sounded like a freight train , is how people didn't just say hey this can't be go let's run our asses off to higher ground.
Since there was no Tsunami drills, nor any large human population didn’t experience one and the first one to hit a highly populated areas that was some reason why, it’s like going back in time and showing A person from the 1800s an IPhone, they are confused and don’t know it’s purpose or what it does
@@francoisegerablie6650 I think it is pretty straightforward. These people on the beach are the less intelligent ones who paid with their lives. The brighter people are already out of shot running for the hills.
It's still hard to take in❤ is 20 years ago this year, and I was 11 when it happend, and one of my brother's classmate , emma 14 years old became an angel in the tsunami❤. I was lucky that no one in my family was in Thailand that day❤ May god be with you 543 Swedish souls❤. Many in Thailand opend their home's and gave clothes, food and other stuff to take care of Swedish turists, who was hurt, while the Swedish guvement were on vacation.😮
What the world learned from this terrible natural occurrence was that if all the water suddenly recedes a long way, get to high ground as quick as possible. I remember being so saddened by this, I had to donate to the disaster relief fund. Rip to those that didn't make it.
Tsunamis are not as rare as you may think, however not usually on this devastating scale, I've been on holiday in the med and experienced two Tsunamis.
The current Finnish President Niinistö escaped by climbing up a utility pole. He had his two adult sons with him, everyone was saved. They were up in the pole for an hour.
It's incomprehensible to me that quantities of people stood unmoving on beaches for minutes while watching this huge mass of violently churning water rushing towards them. Yes, I'm very well aware that in 2004 many people didn't really understand what a tsunami was - but if you can SEE it coming towards you, would you not think to try to get away?
@@wannazirul1666 When the wave was bigger than the 2 navy vessels, .... after the sea suddenly withdrew... I would have been strapping on my track shoes and running...
No BRAZIL ano passado tivemos no sul do Brazil 2 vezes as aguas recuaram assim mais de 300 metros barcos ficaram tombados pedras apareceram mas sem explicação nenhuma voltou ao normal no outro dia ninguem conseguiu explicar isso foi muito estranho .
I saw these photos on the Internet. But at 1.44, two photos were taken as a montage. These are photos from the video interview. There are only 2 original photos that are shown a little earlier. In general, the selection is consistent, but I found another series of interesting photos from Khao Lak and Bang Niang.
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@@AlekseyHito Okay, I'll watch your new video. It is very difficult to find these photos of Khao Lak and understand the dimension of the Tsunami that occurred there, precisely because there are no photos that show this at the moment when the "wave hits the beach".
People casually standing around on the beach as the tsunami bears down on them 🤦🏻♂️. I'm assuming some of them didn't survive. When the water receded so far out, that was their cue to get the hell outta there.
Although not shown here, the one video/image that sums up this Tsunami perfectly is the lone person walking way out on the beach and the first wave coming and devouring him completely. It’s like he knew he’d screwed up big time and calmly waited for the inevitable 😢
Is sad to know that all those ppl standing in the middle of the ocean or in the beach front most of them didn’t make it 😢 different times there was no way for them knowing what was coming until it was too late.
If the waves dont look thst big in some images.... theyre still a few miles off the coast. And was rushing onto shore about 30 seconds later. Tsunamis are FAST
I remember this event well - on my way home from my sister's house for Xmas - waiting in the Baltimore airport - watching reports as the death toll kept rising .. 40 K - 50 K - 70K and upwards .. so many people live & work near coastlines - and so many are very vulnerable as these people were - forces of nature can do immense damage - and with little to no warning ..
1:23 przerażające zdjęcie ludzi, którzy za chwilę prawdopodobnie zginą. Oni nie widzą zagrożenia są spokojni. Co ciekawe miejscowi zobaczyli zagrożenie i uciekli wcześniej ale turyści nie bardzo zrozumieli te obawy i pozostali na plaży podziwiając te zjawisko. Tsunami wcale nie musi być wysoką falą, czasami woda przybiera jak rzeka przez pół godziny albo dłużej. Jest czas by uciec ale ta powolność przyrostu wody usypia czujność nie widać zagrożenia i nagle woda podnosi się o kilka metrów w ciągu sekund i wciągu 15 min cały czas przybiera nawet do 20-30 m n.p.m. Były takie przypadki ,że zamiast uciekać ludzie moczyli sobie nóżki w początkowej fazie tsunami i kompletnie nie zdawali sobie sprawy ,że za chwilę będą walczyć o życie i być może zginą. Inni po pierwszej fali nie za dużej poszli podziwiać drugi odpływ i dopadła ich druga najwyższa z fal. Dwa wielkie tsunami z ogromem często nieświadomych ofiar w ciągu 7 lat. Nawet Japończycy gdzie tsunami to norma ,,zapomnieli" i wielu zignorowało ostrzeżenie do ewakuacji i zapłacili za to najwyższą cenę.
It is somewhat amazing the lack of public knowledge, or the dissemination of knowledge, about tsunamis. People just stood there and watched the waves approaching, not knowing that the walls of water were going to keep on coming.
I can see some people running and others still standing there like it's a parade coming. I watched the movie of a family caught in it. It's called (Impossible).
Many of them died by standing there watching as if nothing happened. People in 2004 did not know what a tsunami was. The French tourists were watching everything there and they see the wave coming close and they are still there on the shore of the beach, After the sea receded, people went to the shore and later to bathe.Look at the images of how everyone is there watching and not running.
It’s nothing short of shocking and frightening how people are just standing there even when the tsunami is that close to them. I know it’s fascinating to see but is it that oblivious that they were in absolute mortal danger?
I remember the guy and his family. Dad figures out in the knick of time what it is TSUNAMI grabs a daughter, mom grabs a daughter and they make it up the hillside with no time to spare. Eerie feeling, wall of water chasing you, for a good 3 minutes
Very very tragic. Nothing prepares you for this kind of calamity. I grew up on an island. My brother taught me: Respect the ocean. Don’t turn your back in the water. If the water looks choppy, avoid it. there are likely currents from different directions and it is rougher. And yes. If the water starts receding far out, run as hard as you can to highesr ground.
A 10 year old named Tilly Smith identified the phenomenon as a tsunami and warned her father, who told a security guard, and had the ~100 patrons of Mai Khao Beach evacuate to a hotel for shelter. She recognized the signs of a tsunami from her geography class and was insistent that the beach evacuate. Mai Khao beach was the only beach on the island with no reported fatalities as a result.
O pior que o tisunami muitas vezes não da muito pra perceber que é um tisunami, porque ela vem como ondas normal, aí quando agente percebe já está muito perto e muito forte 😢
![Tsunami, Great East Japan Earthquake - Miyako city, Iwate Pref, Japan [11 Mar 2011]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4XvFFfgXwnw/mqdefault.jpg)
My work colleague was on holiday in Phuket when the tsunami struck. His hotel room was a beach hut, which he was inside when the tsunami struck. He says it was like being inside a washing machine being tumbled around. He and his girlfriend survived, but lost every item that they had apart from what they were wearing at the time. He'll never forget it.
Wow, he lost every item he had, that is such a terrible loss. I’m sure they got the support they needed from their families back home.
Loucura ficar olhando a morte vir! Não consigo entender!
@@gerben2559so what if he lost everything he had with him while he was on holiday. So many people died and lost their homes and livelihoods.😢. He was actually extremely lucky.
@@pixelchic9449why didn't god save the thousands of other people who died?
@lukeaustin4465 knew, you idiots were going to respond without thinking. 🙄 Well there false Muslim God's didn't save them. There.
RIP to all the people in these photos it's pretty certain none survived being that close to the incoming waves
Then how the camera device recovered from the flood and it worked still?
@@jr.fidelcastro8890 there are a few accounts of cameras that were recovered from the wreckage that included salvageable footage of the incoming waves
They zoomed@@jr.fidelcastro8890
@@jr.fidelcastro8890the person who took the photo might have survived, but yes, it's highly likely most of these people died. Also, why wouldn't a camera found in the wreckage be collected and its pictures checked?
It amazes me that people just stood there watching it coming...
A colleague of me, knowing that I had already been in Thailand, once told me that me that her sister wanted to go on holiday in Thailand with her family and asked me if I thought it was a good idea. I said “Sure, Thailand is a very nice place to go on holiday to, certainly during the winter in Europe”.
I met her again a couple of months later and she told me “You know, my sister went on holiday in Thailand. They were there during the Christmas period of 2004 and nobody, her or her family came back.”.
I think about them every time this tsunami is mentioned and cannot help feeling somewhat guilty for their death.
Their deaths were already written. Please don’t blame yourself you gave an opinion based on your experience. Everyone takes risks when they go on holiday. No one could have predicted such a huge disaster. They are with God now.
C'était leur destin 🕯️🙏
That was not in any way your fault … no one could have foreseen this. Keep them in your memory but try not to feel bad.
You até not guilty, don't carry It with you - and check if you are not already carrying others inapropriated guilties.
You could not possibly have foreseen this. Please don't feel guilty for something completely out of your control. Best wishes for a peaceful life. ❤
Still breaks my heart to see this , so many don’t know how to read the Ocean .
Those pics of the ocean drawn back like that and people Mesmerized, oohhh my 🙏🏼
with due respect most people don't live near or work on the ocean. a lot of people think of the ocean as a big lake. that's why until twenty years ago the idea that a cruise ship could be sunk by a wave was considered a joke. even the Japanese painting a of a Tsunami was considered a one-hundred-year event. we had two major tsunamis in less than a ten-year period. still though it must be shocking to see that in person. my god rest their souls
No one knew in 2004 that the water receding means it's a tsunami
@@SeanLives, most people didn't. At the risk of sounding incredibly stupid, I really had no idea what a tsunami was before 2004.
Vor zwei Wochen bin ich diesen Strand entlang gelaufen, immer im Blick das Meer und die Gedanken an die Menschen ❤
Sometimes you wish you could go back in time and warn the people about what’s coming and save them
This is how born again Christians feel every day😢 but we do warn, and we get laughed at
People laugh at you for wasting your life believing in an imaginary afterlife. You are trapped in a death cult.
@@cand33caneAmen and Amen 🙏. So true.
I am not a Christian, are you talking about Judgement day?
I see many youtube video comments saying Judgement day is coming
its not. The sun will end us.
It’s astounding how fast it happened.. FYI if the ocean recedes (particularly further than normal)… RUN!! 🏃♀️ to higher ground
It's crazy to think that even though 2004 wasn't that long ago, so much was still unknown about the signs of tsunamis to the general public.
My daughter was in grade 4 and had just written her exams on tsunamis that year. When reports came through we immediately knew a tsunami was going to happen
@@zibbieLa Sicurezza prima di tutto.
L' ultimo terremoto in Giappone ha causato uno tsunami ...😢😢 10 minuti dopo la scossa impossibile mettersi in salvo per chi fosse stato all' interno della propria abitazione.
Maybe because it's something that their not normally exposed to, but I do know that when the water pulls out, I mean all the water! It has to come back! You head for high ground! But some people are looking for sea shells and weren't looking at the sea, it's another video from the view of a hotel and they were screaming (and some crying) for the people to get out of there because they could clearly see what was coming to no avail! And then they realized it, it was right on top of 'em and they could see how high the waves were, some tried to run while others just stood to accept their fates and it was about 10 to 12 people out'dere 😢 the locals ran, that's why it's a good idea to learn the local language so you can understand especially in a situation like this!! Or just do as they do and run like hell and find out why you're running away from later!! God rest their souls...😇🙏🏼🥺😢
when the water leaves you should leave immediate also......this should be basic knowledge - aswell as not building too close to water...it´s unpredictable
The water doesn't always recede, that's Hollywood and 'luck of the dice' so to speak...or you are actually seeing the trough between the waves.
Depending on where you are in relation to the tsunami is the prime factor of the water receding...if where you are experiences the apex of the wave first, all you are going to get is the build up water, no Hollywood drawback for warning.
I read about tsunamis from a edition of Boy's Life ( a scouting magazine ) when I was 10 years old... It never ceases to amaze me how little grown adults don't understand their own environment the further we get into this technological age, sure not everybody can be Bear Grylls but just having a basic understanding of the biggest dangers a certain area could pose to you or your family is...well, it's your job as a protector.
The Japanese Tsunami, of 2011, in a sense rewrote the Tsunami of 2004. The magnitude of the force of the water was clear to see in the HD videos. The videos and picture of the damage caused by the water, after the event, was somewhat baffling. After the Japanese Tsunami the HD videos were a shocking realization of the power of the water.
In 2004 Most people had no idea what a Tsunami looks like, but I sure almost everyone does now...
Are you 1 years old? This wasn't 1204
@@justinmoore3217 What are you on about with this 1204 stuff?
I think it must have been so shocking and Awe-inspiring that so many didn't realize until it was too late. Seems obvious in hindsight. Especially for someone like me who has spent almost two decades surfing around the world. I do think that the average tourist just didn't realize what was going on. The most incredible thing to happen in my lifetime.
Those of us with an education knew what a tsunami was & are capable off .
@@jjMcCartan9686 And The Most arrogant comment of the year goes to You! You're not "educated!" Try again looser!
19 years have passed but nothing is forgotten.
Watching this has given me goosebumps. I was in Phuket, Thailand when it happened on 26th December 2004. Anything 200m from the beach inland was smashed, wrecked or damaged. 😢
I had actually been planning to go, but decided not to. Was living/ teaching in Hong Kong at the time. One month later, on Jan. 27th, I was thrown/ pitched head-first down a double-decker bus stairwell on my way home from my uni teaching job. Lost everything, including 3" in height from the force of the literal head-first impact (my head met the accelerating bus stairwell wall. The driver had gunned-it when the light turned green, as I was descending in advance of my stop).
Guess, if something's gonna get you, it will. My life has been imperiled and saved multiple times. Maybe, my 50+ years on a dedicated spiritual path has helped. I often watch these vids, trying to come to terms with what happened. Japan, too. Glad you survived, Paul, and hope you're living a good life now. We're amongst the lucky ones...
1:25 I can understand that people didn't know anything about the tsunami, but they see in front of them a wall of water two palm trees high, moving at great speed and making a terrible sound!!! Where is the instinct of self-preservation in these people?!
Someone on the comments section said that it’s a montage, and if you look carefully the people look kinda pasted, the photo doesn’t show their feet touching the ground.
@@natanhaelalvarado6137There are many videos of people standing then running away from the sea. Where you get the idea they are pasted on to the picture is beyond me.
@AnitaDil
He's just another idiot conspiracy theorist. I run into this conspiracy theorist crap all the time on RUclips ; and because I'm 76 I've seen a lot of wild unbelievable stuff in my day, some of which I've seen with my own eyes but they'll always be somebody who says it's CGI or it's a hoax. College helps. Or just reading.
Fight, flight or freeze instincts.
Yes this. They froze. I’ve also been in situations where people have massively underestimated velocity and distance in the face of a threat. Large ships coming towards them for example. Or other large things coming across water. These people are not used to the sea.
I was there in Khao Lak as a volunteer, rebuilding, clearing up etc few weeks later. We had to run one night when there was another earthquake and an expected tsunami ( that never came ). Bodies and various things were still being washed up weeks and months later
I can't imagine the horror that you saw...
Almost 20 years ago! I was there! Terrificante.Never forget
Some very powerful still images. Thank you for these.
The Navy PT boat gives fantastic scale to the waves with multiple perspectives
I dont know how anyone standing on the beach watching could have escaped. Bless them all..
All these people watching the waves without moving. 😮😢Why? What were they thinking??
I think this are photos and that's why they don't move
People see the cresting wave and fail to understand that the entire top of the sea is now at that elevation.
The Tsunami actually extends back miles behind that initial wave.
So sad, I can’t believe that people stood and watched that coming in with out running…..
We all would have done the same thing. No matter what they tell people on Sunday mornings, ignorance is not bliss.
@@sorellman I would have run, I know what a receding tide means.
@@topangus123 I knew we could count on you. But would you have known that 20 years ago, before this happened. After the fact all of us are men and women of wisdom. Other than that, at low tide water always recedes. If you never seen before water retreating more than usual after a tsunami, you would be there looking and wondering, "What's going on?" By the time you figure out something is wrong, is probably too late.
@@sorellman actually 30 years ago I was in college and awake in my geology class when this topic was covered…
@@topangus123 Again, glad to know we can count on you. As you said, you would have run. Bravo!
Unstoppable beast from the ocean. Seen one photo of a lady holding her toddler. Just a horrible chaotic event that took so many lives.
That image at 1:22 is mind-blowing!!!🤯🤯
How have those people NOT realized what's going on yet?
A lack of knowledge and experience, maybe 🤷🏽♀️
they didnt know what a tsunami is...same by me until this day
Human stupidity...
In some pics going around you can see some running and others not like some knew what draw back meant and others were just fascinated, but if I saw others running I'd run too 😅
It’s heartbreaking knowing those dear people so close to the water didn’t make it.😞
WOW😨! @1:22 With the Tsunami that close and the ppl just standing around right their in the tsunami pathway and not running away I wonder how many ppl die in that image😞
It is still so devastating to watch nearly 20 years on. So many people lost 😢
My late Dad was born in 1927 and grew up spending summers in Stone Harbor at the NJ coast. He said twice, two different summers, when he was a teen, before he turned 18 and had to join WW11, that a huge rogue wave came in. It can happen again here on the east coast, you never know. Mid atlantic fault shifting a bit maybe.
Your Dad fought in WW2, what you put down looks like Eleven.
@@andynieuwenhuis7833Either way is correct
This was the first tsunami those spectators saw, and for many, their last. Just standing there, mesmerized.
When I was a young seaman many years ago couple of ships I was on went over some tsunami waves. They were just like a big ripple in the middle of the ocean. We never knew the massive damage they could do when they hit a continental shelf and just get more & more awesome as they head for the shore.
RIP to all poor souls that lost life on that fateful day. I was 14 years old and this was all foggy in my memory. I feel so sad about everyone my age, early 2000s were so traumatic for us born 1990… same goes for 9/11 events.. this was all very hard on our innocent young souls.. i feel sorry for everyone who lost someone in this tragic event.
son 2 cosas diferentes, algo premeditado contra un evento de la naturaleza. En el primero, si estabas en el lugar equivocado, tu muerte estaba sentenciada, pero aquí muchos se pudieron haber salvado si hubieran tenido un mínimo de cultura oceánica .
Es igual que te quedes parado al lado del volcán cuando entra en erupción. Te avisa antes .
Continued thoughts and prayers
I've heard that before and that's sooo sad! Kids today are dealing with school shootings and Covid. Waaay to much heartaches for anyone so young to have to deal with!! Hope you've seen some healing!!!
Standing there staring at this coming straight for them, you do not need to know anything about a tsunami to see that coming straight for you
I can see a big wave coming at me weather I know it's a tsunami or not. It's time to run.
@@marilynsummit1764 there you go, girl!!!
You know that now, with the benefit of hindsight.
If you’d been there on that day, you’d have reacted the same way those people did.
@@andrewrobinson8305 i agree with you
The sound of the tsunami coming must have been so loud. How people didn't run away is beyond me.
My daughter likes to swim, and she argues when I tell her to come out of the water. I fear so much for her safety when I watch these videos.
Show her this video
Back then tsunamis were very rare events and this one was the first one to be recorded in history so that's why people reacted too slow to save themselves.
Not true. There are photos of the 1923 Kantō tsunami in Japan, the 1929 tsunami at Newfoundland, the 1946 tsunami that hit Hawai, the 1979 tsunami in France, etc.
@@lephebe1887
At that time, in that place, Tsunamis YES were rare... they did not have the proper equipment or control stations for this type of natural disaster that would give early warning of what was coming... not because a specific country has suffered a Tsunami before, means that the other countries of the world already know how to avoid it, especially one that does not suffer from these things. For example, my country Paraguay has nothing to deal with hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or anything like that, because we don't suffer from it... at least not yet.
Tsunamis are not rare events, nor were they 20 years ago
It was a lack of education not records that resulted in people not fleeing in time
I live far away from any coastline and I know (even when I was a child because my dad told me. He knows how to recognize the signs because of a book) when to run for the hills
Puedo entender que no supieran que estaba pasando y se quedaran curiosos mirando, pero a partir del minuto 1: 12 se ve claramente y muy cerca ya una pared de agua alta, turbia, el ruido debería ser ensordecedor y a partir del minuto 1:22 , la tienen casi encima, no se dan cuenta en ese momento lo alto que iba el mar y que tenían a 100 200 metros esa pared de agua muy tempestuosa directo a ellos? Creían que antes de llegar a sus pies ese monstruo de agua se iba a detener? Porqué no corren? Yo vivo muy cerca del mar y nunca he visto un tsunami, pero si hubiera visto ese horror estaría corriendo como alma que me lleva el diablo, no miraría atrás. No puedo entender la pasividad de esas personas. Saben que no es normal, se ve una pared de agua terrorífica y estoy segura que el sonido sería atronador, y siguen ahí mirando, grabando , tan tranquilos. Supongo que el de la cámara se salvó, sino no tendríamos estas imágenes tan impactantes
He or she was probably quite far away & using a telephoto lens.
What is puzzling to me is how when the ocean went out that far and then returned if the for of a 30ft wave that probably sounded like a freight train , is how people didn't just say hey this can't be go let's run our asses off to higher ground.
That's what you get when people are disconnected from their natural environnement. Native tribes survived almost unscathed
Since there was no Tsunami drills, nor any large human population didn’t experience one and the first one to hit a highly populated areas that was some reason why, it’s like going back in time and showing A person from the 1800s an IPhone, they are confused and don’t know it’s purpose or what it does
At those times I didn't know it was a tsunami, and it was also believed that earthquakes only occurred in Japan, but everything changed in 2004.
Bro there is no way people belived earthquakes were only in Japan. When lots of civilizations had been experiencing earthquakes for centuries xD
Wha? Who thought that?
Balls.
What is so strange is all the people standing around with their hands on their hips & not doing anything, until it's too late.
Y. What were they thinking? That the water would stop at their feet? Unfortunately a lot of people are not very bright.
Je suis choqué de certains commentaires, les donneurs de leçons après ces toutes premières catastrophes.
@@francoisegerablie6650 I think it is pretty straightforward. These people on the beach are the less intelligent ones who paid with their lives. The brighter people are already out of shot running for the hills.
Never seen some of these photos. You've got to wonder how the photographers survived, at that close proximity.
It's still hard to take in❤ is 20 years ago this year, and I was 11 when it happend, and one of my brother's classmate , emma 14 years old became an angel in the tsunami❤.
I was lucky that no one in my family was in Thailand that day❤
May god be with you 543 Swedish souls❤.
Many in Thailand opend their home's and gave clothes, food and other stuff to take care of Swedish turists, who was hurt, while the Swedish guvement were on vacation.😮
What the world learned from this terrible natural occurrence was that if all the water suddenly recedes a long way, get to high ground as quick as possible. I remember being so saddened by this, I had to donate to the disaster relief fund. Rip to those that didn't make it.
The loss of life is heartbreaking
Very impressive dirge accompaniment to the gathering tragedy. Bravo! Should we stay? Should we go? Get the hell outta Dodge!!!
how is it possible all these people do not know what a Tsunami is or signs of an approaching one? 4th grade geography
How do you see that giant wall of water coming at you and not realize you should prolly get outta there?
If I saw those waves coming, I would have run to the highest spot. I grew up in Miami, and these waves were not normal.
Tsunamis are not as rare as you may think, however not usually on this devastating scale, I've been on holiday in the med and experienced two Tsunamis.
The current Finnish President Niinistö escaped by climbing up a utility pole. He had his two adult sons with him, everyone was saved. They were up in the pole for an hour.
I'm glad he made it. It still sounds a bit comical.
It's incomprehensible to me that quantities of people stood unmoving on beaches for minutes while watching this huge mass of violently churning water rushing towards them. Yes, I'm very well aware that in 2004 many people didn't really understand what a tsunami was - but if you can SEE it coming towards you, would you not think to try to get away?
When they saw this coming, why did they just stand there filming?
They thought it's a normal wave I guess😢😢
@@wannazirul1666 When the wave was bigger than the 2 navy vessels, .... after the sea suddenly withdrew...
I would have been strapping on my track shoes and running...
Knowing most if not all of these people died is heart wrenching 😢
It’s was Dec.26,2004 Boxing day here in London. Went this horrible tsunami happened.R. I.P. To all the Victims.🙏
No BRAZIL ano passado tivemos no sul do Brazil 2 vezes as aguas recuaram assim mais de 300 metros barcos ficaram tombados pedras apareceram mas sem explicação nenhuma voltou ao normal no outro dia ninguem conseguiu explicar isso foi muito estranho .
Its so sad to knew that almost all people on the pictures didnt survive its impossible to survive when they stand so near
I can’t understand everyone just standing and watching the wave coming at them.
I was thinking the same thing, I would have run away, they are sitting on the sunbeds
I saw these photos on the Internet. But at 1.44, two photos were taken as a montage. These are photos from the video interview. There are only 2 original photos that are shown a little earlier. In general, the selection is consistent, but I found another series of interesting photos from Khao Lak and Bang Niang.
Good afternoon how are you? Do you have these photos? It is very difficult to find these photos from 2004, especially Khao Lak.
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@@AlekseyHito Okay, I'll watch your new video. It is very difficult to find these photos of Khao Lak and understand the dimension of the Tsunami that occurred there, precisely because there are no photos that show this at the moment when the "wave hits the beach".
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Great video!!!
People casually standing around on the beach as the tsunami bears down on them 🤦🏻♂️. I'm assuming some of them didn't survive. When the water receded so far out, that was their cue to get the hell outta there.
Although not shown here, the one video/image that sums up this Tsunami perfectly is the lone person walking way out on the beach and the first wave coming and devouring him completely. It’s like he knew he’d screwed up big time and calmly waited for the inevitable 😢
Is sad to know that all those ppl standing in the middle of the ocean or in the beach front most of them didn’t make it 😢 different times there was no way for them knowing what was coming until it was too late.
They teach you what a tsunami is in grade school.
They didn't know what one was is because they're all from the Midwest in America
Back then I’d never heard of a Tsunami and when I heard about it on the news I thought it was a location where something had happened 🤦♂️
I'm like how can you just stand'dere when you see what's coming at you? And it's only getting bigger, and then there was just an earthquake too?!?😮
If the waves dont look thst big in some images.... theyre still a few miles off the coast. And was rushing onto shore about 30 seconds later. Tsunamis are FAST
I don’t get how people just stand around looking at the sea receding, then see the white cap of the tsunami and keep standing and watching.
I remember this event well - on my way home from my sister's house for Xmas - waiting in the Baltimore airport - watching reports as the death toll kept rising .. 40 K - 50 K - 70K and upwards .. so many people live & work near coastlines - and so many are very vulnerable as these people were - forces of nature can do immense damage - and with little to no warning ..
Des photos impressionnantes qui glacent le sang. Les gens sont restés devant ce mur d'eaux grises sans comprendre.
1:23 przerażające zdjęcie ludzi, którzy za chwilę prawdopodobnie zginą. Oni nie widzą zagrożenia są spokojni. Co ciekawe miejscowi zobaczyli zagrożenie i uciekli wcześniej ale turyści nie bardzo zrozumieli te obawy i pozostali na plaży podziwiając te zjawisko. Tsunami wcale nie musi być wysoką falą, czasami woda przybiera jak rzeka przez pół godziny albo dłużej. Jest czas by uciec ale ta powolność przyrostu wody usypia czujność nie widać zagrożenia i nagle woda podnosi się o kilka metrów w ciągu sekund i wciągu 15 min cały czas przybiera nawet do 20-30 m n.p.m. Były takie przypadki ,że zamiast uciekać ludzie moczyli sobie nóżki w początkowej fazie tsunami i kompletnie nie zdawali sobie sprawy ,że za chwilę będą walczyć o życie i być może zginą. Inni po pierwszej fali nie za dużej poszli podziwiać drugi odpływ i dopadła ich druga najwyższa z fal.
Dwa wielkie tsunami z ogromem często nieświadomych ofiar w ciągu 7 lat. Nawet Japończycy gdzie tsunami to norma ,,zapomnieli" i wielu zignorowało ostrzeżenie do ewakuacji i zapłacili za to najwyższą cenę.
Did they get a refund for the hotel?
That someone had the presence of mind..of enough courage to be steady with a camera to take the shots
It is somewhat amazing the lack of public knowledge, or the dissemination of knowledge, about tsunamis. People just stood there and watched the waves approaching, not knowing that the walls of water were going to keep on coming.
I can see some people running and others still standing there like it's a parade coming. I watched the movie of a family caught in it. It's called (Impossible).
That was such a great movie about a family survival and the strong will to overcome the obstacles that happen in the 2004 Thailand Tsunami
É impressionante como o ser humano ver o perigo, mas não sai de perto
I grew up next to the Atlantic Ocean, and I know if the water sucks out like that, it's time to run and keep running uphill as far as possible!
wow, people literally standing there watching their own deaths approaching at 100 plus miles per hour.
Many of them died by standing there watching as if nothing happened. People in 2004 did not know what a tsunami was. The French tourists were watching everything there and they see the wave coming close and they are still there on the shore of the beach, After the sea receded, people went to the shore and later to bathe.Look at the images of how everyone is there watching and not running.
It’s nothing short of shocking and frightening how people are just standing there even when the tsunami is that close to them. I know it’s fascinating to see but is it that oblivious that they were in absolute mortal danger?
Have respect for the sea 🌊
It just amazes me how people just stand there and not run smh, you can’t beat Mother Nature 😮.
Those people in that picture in the beginning, dead
I remember the guy and his family. Dad figures out in the knick of time what it is
TSUNAMI grabs a daughter, mom grabs a daughter and they make it up the hillside with no time to spare. Eerie feeling, wall of water chasing you, for a good 3 minutes
So sad...I remember exactly where I was that day when I heard the news!
Does anyone know the music playing please?
It still breaks my heart these people stood there as the ocean did a 180 from the gently lapping blue water to the above and didn't run.
Very very tragic.
Nothing prepares you for this kind of calamity.
I grew up on an island. My brother taught me:
Respect the ocean.
Don’t turn your back in the water.
If the water looks choppy, avoid it. there are likely currents from different directions and it is rougher.
And yes. If the water starts receding far out, run as hard as you can to highesr ground.
So many from our small town in Sweden were lost that day , children, pregnant woman and men 💔
Wonder if anyone on the beach in those pics survived…..
A 10 year old named Tilly Smith identified the phenomenon as a tsunami and warned her father, who told a security guard, and had the ~100 patrons of Mai Khao Beach evacuate to a hotel for shelter. She recognized the signs of a tsunami from her geography class and was insistent that the beach evacuate. Mai Khao beach was the only beach on the island with no reported fatalities as a result.
Although it's a different beach, I believe Mai Khao still falls under being a part of Khao Lak
Tous ces gens que restent incrédules devant ce mur d'eau et qui ne comprennent pas que la mort arrive....... impressionnant.......
I was on holiday with my girl friend in Khao Lak a week before. It was very very bad to see this and know that everything was destroyed. 😭😭😭
I wonder how many of the people shown here survived…
People just standing there staring… 😳
O pior que o tisunami muitas vezes não da muito pra perceber que é um tisunami, porque ela vem como ondas normal, aí quando agente percebe já está muito perto e muito forte 😢
I hope people have learned to read the signs these days, a great tragedy😢
Who took these pictures and survived to share them......
The residents that lived in these areas lost everything including homes, jobs, family , sad, sad time.
Tsunami usually is 50 feet or more..!
When locals panic then you panic
Me admira as pessoas estarem na areia sem perceber o que estava vindo no outside😢😢😢
How many more would have died had they had camera phones?
I see water receding, I'm running faster than flash.
Incrível as pessoas não perceberem a dimensão do perigo iminente, imóveis e perplexas observando as ondas se aproximarem...