Final Moments
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Kate | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
A Canadian couple who died in the December 26th tsunami took a series of digital photos of the waves that claimed their lives. The camera was destroyed, but the memory card was retrieved.
About the Author: Kate is a freelance commercial and automotive airbrush artist living in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was one of the original guest bloggers at OTB in November 2004 and soon joined the permanent stable, contributing through January 2007.
Eventually, she turned to writing full time at her own blog, small dead animals, which was voted the Best Canadian Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards and has been generally considered that country's best blog ever since.
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Terrifying to think about, but begs the question: When they saw this coming in, watching the boats get sucked in and overwhelmed, why didn't they run their asses off?
To sit there and continue taking pictures, i'll admit was bold, but it cost them their lives.
Sad
Well, we don't KNOW it cost them their lives. We know little of the beach's topography - it may have been impossible to get to higher ground in time - so why not take pictures?
Holy sh!t!
Where these pics were taken (Khao Lak) the wave was 10-11m high. That's 32.5-35.75ft high in American.
Imagine trying to outrun a Mack truck coming at you at ~40mph. Now make that Mack a few feet taller and the full length of the beach wide.
They didn't stand a chance. They should have run the moment they saw the tide go way out, but by the time they took the first picture it was too late.
Holy mackeral.
Chilling photos. Thanks for the post.
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