[Raycpa]

Both the woman and her family did exactly the wrong thing. She should have run away to higher ground and her family would have been better off swimming out deeper and diving just before the wave hit letting it pass over their heads.

I suspect her family was drawn off shore when the water receded. They would not have had enough time to go out that far on their own and they seem to be heading toward shore. She probably went to meet them to help.

[coloradan]

I was thinking that too, but they're so close to each other... if they had been swept away in the initial drawdown, and then when it went to sea floor level they started running on dry land, I don't think they would have been so close together. I think they went out there to explore, tragically.