Tsunami: Caught on Camera – Part 3/8

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Christmas Day 2004, and across the Indian Ocean, tourists from around the globe are enjoying dream holidays in the sun. But none of them know that the very next day their video cameras will capture one of the most devastating natural disasters in recorded history, which will leave nearly 300,000 dead in eleven countries.

Five years on, and told almost entirely using amateur footage, much of it never broadcast before, Tsunami: Caught on Camera is the moving true story of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami told through the eyes of those who were actually there.

Shot by ordinary people across the Tsunami’s huge impact area, the remarkable amateur footage reveals what happened when the waves, caused by a massive underwater earthquake, hit land.

This powerful, bold and intimate film reveals what it was like to be caught up in the events of that day and tells stories of panic and heart-breaking loss, as well as courage and miraculous survival.

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  1. From So Calif; on this day 6 13 18 it feels like, a calm before the storm? a hunch in the air? Godzilla is real and coming right up for us from that Big Island in the Pacific.Its name is Tsunami~!???

  2. This is why white people die in scary movies too. They're too curious. I mean you see something unusual then stay the fuk away ffs. Don't go looking for trouble.

  3. Did anyone notice the large dark serpent like creature at about 18 seconds in? Its on the left side of the screen.Snake?Sea serpent?

  4. Recent events have shed some new light on the Japan Earthquake as well as this one and other events in the last few years. Scientists became alarmed about 5 years ago when the North magnetic pole and the South magnetic pole started moving at the rate of 50 to 100 miles a year and accelerating. the ESA launched a set of three satellites to measure the Earth's magnetic field and what they found was frightening but for some reason has been ignored by the press. The North magnetic pole has shifted hundreds of mile towards Siberia and the South has moved accordingly towards the South Atlantic. There was a known area in the South Atlantic known as the "South Atlantic Anomaly" that has shifted North and grown to a huge area that encompasses the entire South Atlantic past South America and South Africa. The area is now at extreme risk because there is NO magnetic field over this are at all, it is simply a huge magnetic hole. As part of this finding, the theory is that this shifting of the poles will cause massive increases in Volcanic activity, Earthquakes (and Tsunami) all centered around the AXIS of the polar shift. The Axis is the area South of Japan in the area near South Korea. The other pole being on the exact opposite side of the planet. As the poles shift, the forces affecting the tectonic plates will change and those plates will settle into new positions as they shift. Whenever tectonic plates move, volcanoes erupt and Earthquakes occur. 

  5. Who doesn't know a tsunami follows an earthquake? I live in a desert & can't remember a time I didn't know that. The woman made the connection…but man was like nah! So odd to me! In Japan right after an earthquake they all know what's next. Man these islands need education & disaster planning.

  6. omgfg TIDE RUSHING OUT…….BAD BAD OK. HERE'S YOUR SIGN. Maybe the earthquake affected the water, nahh. yeah no ok go back to school, read a book, get some general knowledge of how the world works and they say americans are the least intelligent. I for one would have know IMMEDIATELY what the hell was going on as soon as the tide rushed out super fast you would have seen be booking it in the OPPOSITE direction. or if i heard their was an earthquake and i'm near the ocean or on an island. I would want to know was the quake in the ocean….then I'd be booking it hell outta there. sprint in a plane

  7. wow derp. you almost think darwin awards should be handed out to the ppl going oh hey look the waters going out, then start going back down to the beach……..really do you not read , do you not exist in the world. common knowledge says when the tide goes out that fast THAT far something big is going to happen you don't have to have taken oceanography to know that. mother nature sure weeds out dumb ppl

  8. From all of the parts I notice that when the tide recedes I SEE THE WAVE LOOKING LOKE A WALL FAR AHEAD! IN ALL PARTS THEY DONT EVEN TAKE ATTENTION TO IT AND MAYBE NOT EVEN SEE IT! sigh

  9. I have never seen the ocean in my life but I know that when the tide goes out like that its tsunami maybe I'm just smarter than people who live on the ocean I don't know

  10. How do you not know that when the water gets sucked out that a big fucking wave is coming???? Do you think the ocean is draining?!?!? Some people have zero survival instincts. 

  11. the thing that frightens me the most is the ignorance of people. i don't live in a country that is commonly affected by these kind of events, yet i know how to recognize a tsunami and what to be done to secure myself, as well as earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, fires, etc, we learn it in science classes at 6th grade… there are unequivocal facts about tsunamis: the sea will recede, you'll have about 15mins to run to any high ground before the first wave hits the shore. the 1st wave will again recede and then the 2nd wave will hit even stronger and full of debris… and this can go on for hours… so if you are at a beach or river or lake and you see the water receding don't pick up or phone or camera… you pick up your kids or family and run to the highest and safest place you can see… a last floor or roof of a high building for example… and don't leave it until some hours have passed without waves… i know a lot of people were hit by the tsunami and weren't even close to the beach also… and i can't stop to think and to blame the governments of these countries. why they never made some flyers or commercials on tv/newspapers/magazines/school events to inform the populations on how to recognize and act in these events? why no sirens or alarms were placed in strategic places so in cases like this everyone far from the beaches could also be warned and take proper measures to secure themselves? earthquakes and tsunamis aren't properly a rarity in seismic zones, so i really fail to understand why countries that have history of suffering from these kind of events didn't yet took any of these measures. it saddens me to think that a lot of lives could have been spared if.

  12. 9:48 woman: "maybe the earth quake effected the water". Man: "naaaaaahhhhhhhh"(you're a woman! What do you know?)…lol.. Guys,  this proof that a  woman's intuition may save your life!

  13. These are the kind of things that should be thaught at school around the world, if there was an earthquake and then the tide goes away, that is a huge tsunami warning, how come people don't know that, ignorance it was killed so many people there!!!
    "Oh look, a big beautiful wave!" …NO, it's not beautiful, run for your life!!! SMH!

  14. I mean…… like…. for our sake it's kind of cool that they were brave enough to get close enough to get footage of it……. but at the same time WHY DID THEY JUST STARE AT IT OH MY GOSH RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

  15. I'm amazed that not even the locals were educated to know the signs of a tsunami. I was taught in boy scouts at 11 that if the water receded very far then it's a sign of a big wave and you need to get to high ground. Education is important. I feel bad they had to learn the hard way

  16. Its truly a sad thing, and I have never been in such situation, but shouldn't they have known that receding waters means tsunami. It's crazy that no one actually warned the people who was going out to view the spectacle.

  17. I love how even the name of the place ''Phuket''  seems to ironically sound like what most travellers said when they thought about going there the next summer.  Fuck it!

  18. One of the most basic things you are taught in primary school: If the sea recedes fast, get to high ground… Maybe they didn't teach it 30+ years ago

  19. This is giving me chills. seeing people's last moment of life. Such a sad thing, after the tide went in they should of gotten to higher ground not back to the beach! 

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