Posted on 02/23/2005 8:46:14 PM PST by SmithL
VANCOUVER -- Photographs from the camera of a Canadian couple killed in Asia's tsunami include their final shots of a huge wave as it rushed toward them at their beach resort in Thailand.
John and Jackie Knill of North Vancouver, frequent visitors to the popular Thai resort, Khao Lak, were apparently on the beach when the tsunami hit Dec. 26.
The couple disappeared and relatives say they were notified about a week ago that the identities of their remains had been confirmed.
Searchers later also recovered the couple's destroyed digital camera but were able to print photos from its memory card.
In a sequence of photos over the course of a few minutes, some curious onlookers are shown wandering onto suddenly exposed tidal flats, a sign of the impending tsunami. In one, a large wave appears to be breaking in the distance.
The pictures show that within minutes, the wave grows larger and some beachgoers begin to take notice.
"I don't know why they didn't run," their son Christian Knill told Global TV in Vancouver. "Either they knew they couldn't or they didn't know the power of the wave."
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LOL. You win. I'm a goner for sure.
The thing I noted is that the first photo seems to have been taken from an elevation of maybe 25 feet above beach level, but that the later ones are right on the beach.
It seems as if this couple went down to the beach to get a better look.
wonder how Nova Scotia would know...
They have the highest tides on earth... 15 feet and 14 billion tons of water come in on them twice a day
@100 years ago
sorry - typo
55 feet
Wow squared!
Anyone who has ever been to the beach should have noticed the tide comes in and then it goes out. When it goes out farther it always comes back a bigger wave. So....if it goes waaaaaaaay out then it is going to come waaaaaaay back in an even bigger wave. NO?
Then again I now live in the desert of Phoenix where the tide has been out for millions of years. Still waiting for the beach to *evolve here.
"Some 61 people were killed, and 282 were injured."
Not if my wife had the camera.
I would suspect that, your husband while looking down on you, is very glad that you are alive.
How horrible for those people, who must have thought the water wall was something ordinary and didn't move from their spot.
I agree. The 2nd photo was taken from somewhere up high; the hotel, maybe? How very sad that they then chose to go down to the beach.
I was fixing to correct you. I saw some high tides on my sailboat while in England. At high tide, I could step off on to the dock, at low tide, my keel of six feet would be on the bottom and it would be twenty feet up to the dock.
Yes, but when I talk to him, if I can't have him here, I wish I were with him. It is very lonely without him.
I am sure there is still enough love left in your heart for someone else some other time. I have two movies for you to watch, "A Guy Named Joe" and "Always". If you can get them both, watch them one after another. Life goes on.
So lemme get this straight....if the ocean just all of a sudden just began to recede and the beach shore was sucked dry....you arent going to get the idea to...oh I dunno.......run?
I would, if I happened to be on the beach at the time the water started leaving at a high rate of speed... However, the tsunami came in at a little before 0800 local; most people weren't awake to see the water recede.
So, you wake up in a hotel room at 0745, see the nice HUGE beach that you've never seen before in your life, and decide to go for a swim before breakfast. How, exactly, is a tourist supposed to know what a beach is supposed to look like when they've never been there before?
BM
I'm sorry.
Unless either:
1) You grab your car keys and jump in your car [and don't get caught in traffic], or2) You use your allocation of nine minutes to run to higher ground [such as the top floor of your hotel].
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