VIDEOGRAPHER SHOOTING TSUNAMI GETS SWEPT AWAY (see the footage)

WMCA - New York ^ | 12.28.2004

[KMC1]

SCARIEST TSUNAMI FOOTAGE I'VE SEEN: I've seen literally every frame of video that the networks have played. This tape I think indicates what was so seductive and dangerous about the Tsunami...the videographer shooting this footage gets swept away....
Sharper Minds Daily...

[b4its2late]

Does not sound like a good day at the office.....

[BJungNan]

I suppose it is understandable these jumpy videos under the circumstances. But for the rest of you with video cameras, slow panning shots. Move the camera slowly. Hold it steady. You are not swatting flies with the darn thing.

[ican'tbelieveit]

When I saw this earlier, I wondered what happened to him.

[The Teen Conservative]

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[bitt]

how did the video stay intact? who rescued the camera? Must be that the guy filming made it out okay...I hope...

[ican'tbelieveit]

Yeap, those questions too.

[FReepaholic]

It's interesting that another wave had already hit. The cameraman is yelling "It's coming again".

[Scarchin]

first time i've seen any video. amazing

[LikeLight]

Tragic to see that older couple down in the debris trying to get up to the higher part of the building as the wave sweeps in . . . one would have to assume they're dead now . . .

[Critical Bill]

Playing it back in slow-motion I can see now that it is more the ocean rising like a sink over flow than a horrendoously large wave, although you can see the horizon/wave is quite high (with a couple of yachts visible) close in to shore than it is when the water level rising at the end. Is he on the second floor of the building or where those two elderly people down on a mezzanine type area? I would have been swinging from those rafters by the time the video fritzed.

[Critical Bill]

Fear not good people, help is on its way.

[KJC1]

I haven't commented at all on the tsunami thing, but I guess I will now. I'm from Hawaii (though I now live in TX) and my father and grandparents survived the tsunami in Hilo in 1946. It took out their entire house, my father as a kid had to run with the rest of the family from the house, and everything was gone. One of the family dogs drowned, and another was swept out to sea, but somehow made it back to shore and lived.
And they got LUCKY. Very, very lucky. Many others from Hilo died. The downtown of Hilo was utterly devastated.
The worst was a school teacher in Laupahoehoe who took a bunch of kids on to the beach because they saw a low tide, to search for things. They were all killed.
Bottom line: There must be an international warning system, and for anyone reading this, if you see the tide pull back like never before--run for the hills. It's the sign of a tsunami.

[kstewskis]

Wow. I'm speechless.

I can't imagine how many people had no clue as to what was happening, before they were consumed with water.

Praying for them all.

[lsee]

If this is the clip I'm thinking it is, there is an English translation about that older couple here...another link to video here. I didn't think the interpretation was talking about the couple by the concrete wall until I viewed the video again and realized it wasn't two men clinging there, but a man and a woman with short hair. Truly sad. I imagine the woman is actually deceased, since they didn't find her afterwards, but the article mentions the man surviving.

[jigsaw]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the absolute funniest replies I've ever seen on FR! Priceless! Absolutely priceless!

[The Mayor]

wow

[Critical Bill]

LOL, I can't help it he looks like such a dork at everything he does eh.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

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