Fellow working in a dive school said the bay at Phuket, Thailant emptied
completely and fish were flopping around for 5 minutes before the wave hit.
He realized what was happening and got a bunch of people to the second
story of the building, which saved most of them, although they did get
washed out of the building. This was on As It Happens, CBC/RCI.



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My wife and I were scuba diving, about 20 meters down, off the shore of Sri
Lanka when the first wave hit. All of a sudden the current became unbelievable.
Everyone held on to coral or whatever they could to prevent themselves from
being swept away. As we surfaced, the boat, which had been tied to a buoy was
still intact. We began to return to the dive center when we looked and realized
the beach had simply disappeared. We could see the hotels in a shambles (some
of them collapsing) and tons of debris in the water. We headed to the dive
center and then we saw another wave heading for us. We ran for our lives. We
were some of the lucky ones. Warren and Julie Lavender, Colombo, Sri Lanka