From where they were in relation to the beach, it would have been impossible to swim out to deeper water, as you suggested in your post to dead..
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"She was running towards what looks like her husband and four kids. I would imagine the five of them are all gone. It’s just so sad."
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 expect you are right. They are dead.
151 posted on 12/30/2004 11:27:10 AM CST by monday
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Now you say you were talking of someone out scuba diving in deep water.
"From where they were in relation to the beach, it would have been impossible to swim out to deeper water, as you suggested in your post to dead.."
All it takes to dive under a wave is to get a few feet under the breaking edge. By running inland into shallower water they were making it more difficult to do that. Shallow water makes it impossible to either run to higher ground or dive under a wave. The worst possible place to be.
They might have been killed anyway though. Hard to say how far deep water or high ground was. They might have been too far anyway.