Canadian Couple, Drowned by Tsunami, Took Pictures of Wave

Elspode · 02-27-2005, 04:00 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...canada_tsunami

Unbefuckinglieveable.

richlevy · 02-27-2005, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...canada_tsunami

Unbefuckinglieveable.

I'm sure everyone who sees the pictures is thinking the same thing, "If they'd run instead of taken pictures, would they have survived?"

slang · 02-27-2005, 06:22 PM

How much bigger did this wave seem than the other normal ones? From looking at the pictures it doesnt show a scale of the two. Call me a dumbass, but I could see myself looking out at the ocean and taking these same pics.

How many people on the beach actually survived by running? What was the speed of the wave? I dont have any idea, just wondering out loud.

gingerstar61 · 02-27-2005, 06:29 PM

Obviously the wave must have been noticable enough to make them decide to take photos of it, but to be fair, I'm pretty sure noone on that beach could have imagined the devestation that wave was going to cause.

Trilby · 02-27-2005, 07:29 PM

I would've started running at about pic #4....

wolf · 02-27-2005, 10:54 PM

I avoid the beach at all costs, and therefore wouldn't have had the opportunity to be that stupid.

Anyone going to nominate these folks for the Darwin Award?

Elspode · 02-27-2005, 11:01 PM

The pictures that stun me the most are the second one, where the wave is the entire width of the shot...a solid wall of water that is level across the entire frame, and the next to last one, where you can see a person standing on the beach, and the wave is about to crash across the rocks. If that person is somewhere in the vicinity of six feet tall, and judging the further distance to the wave, that monster must have been 30 to 40 feet high.

Having watched a couple of Discovery Channel shows about tsunamis, I would have been heading for high ground when the water receded, leaving the exposed tidal flat. I know what that shit means.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-28-2005, 10:15 PM

I guess you become complacent to strange phenomenon is paradise...until it’s too late.

OnyxCougar · 03-16-2005, 11:20 AM

Yahoo link is gone, found another link from cnn:

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/w...t.exclude.html

02-27-2005, 04:00 PM	#1
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Canadian Couple, Drowned by Tsunami, Took Pictures of Wave http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...canada_tsunami Unbefuckinglieveable. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-27-2005, 07:29 PM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I would've started running at about pic #4.... __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

02-27-2005, 10:54 PM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I avoid the beach at all costs, and therefore wouldn't have had the opportunity to be that stupid. Anyone going to nominate these folks for the Darwin Award? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-27-2005, 11:01 PM	#7
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	The pictures that stun me the most are the second one, where the wave is the entire width of the shot...a solid wall of water that is level across the entire frame, and the next to last one, where you can see a person standing on the beach, and the wave is about to crash across the rocks. If that person is somewhere in the vicinity of six feet tall, and judging the further distance to the wave, that monster must have been 30 to 40 feet high. Having watched a couple of Discovery Channel shows about tsunamis, I would have been heading for high ground when the water receded, leaving the exposed tidal flat. I know what that shit means. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-28-2005, 10:15 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I guess you become complacent to strange phenomenon is paradise...until it’s too late. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-27-2005, 06:22 PM	#3
slang St Petersburg, Florida Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,423	How much bigger did this wave seem than the other normal ones? From looking at the pictures it doesnt show a scale of the two. Call me a dumbass, but I could see myself looking out at the ocean and taking these same pics. How many people on the beach actually survived by running? What was the speed of the wave? I dont have any idea, just wondering out loud.

02-27-2005, 06:29 PM	#4
gingerstar61 Eavesdropper Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England Posts: 24	Obviously the wave must have been noticable enough to make them decide to take photos of it, but to be fair, I'm pretty sure noone on that beach could have imagined the devestation that wave was going to cause. __________________ You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

03-16-2005, 11:20 AM	#9
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Yahoo link is gone, found another link from cnn: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/w...t.exclude.html __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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