Woman scuba diving during Tsunami

[davethetruth]

Interesting perspective.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/tsu...ver/index.html

I guess it was the safest place to be.

[Screaming]

well it looks like it was one of the safest place to be

[warlock5]

"Faye Wachs said she was impressed by the efforts of the Thai government and the International Committee for the Red Cross, but "she was appalled at the treatment they got" from the U.S. government, her mother said."

"At the airport in Bangkok, other governments had set up booths to greet nationals who had been affected and to help repatriate them, she said."

"That was not the case with the U.S. government, Wachs told her mother. It took the couple three hours, she said, to find the officials from the American consulate, who were in the VIP lounge."

"Because they had lost all their possessions, including their documentation, they had to have new passports issued."

"But the U.S. officials demanded payment to take the passport pictures, Helen Wachs said."

"The couple had managed to hold on to their ATM card, so they paid for the photos and helped other Americans who did not have any money get their pictures taken and buy food, Helen Wachs said."

"She was really very surprised" that the government did so little to ease their ordeal, she said."

Someone needs to lose their job

[reynold]

yeah, underwater

[Manowar]

they were very lucky

[foxylady]

well it looks like it was one of the safest place to be

maybe it is

[rocki]

They must not been in the Path of it... if a wave hits at 500+ mph it would have an extremely powerful under toe that pulls everything back out to sea. They would have ended up on a reef a mile away, which possibly would still have survived.


regardless, they are very lucky!

[xclusive]

I was thinking the same thing I saw a story about a group of people that were high up in a bar and whenever a wave would come in the lagoon would empty out and they could see the coral reef...

[evanmorgan]

yeah, underwater

O thats where they do scuba diving, thanks for clearing that up

[TheFrog]

O thats where they do scuba diving, thanks for clearing that up

haha, very witty of you there nice one

[Frank The Tank]

fucking hell ...

four irish girls arrived home today after their hotel was swept away while they were coconut picking with a barman a couple of miles inland in phuket .... they lost their mum who was sitting on the beach when it happened

[rocki]

plus if they were doing a boat dive then that boat would have been gone when they surfaced so maybe they did a beach dive... but all the beaches were hit pretty hard with a massive under toe...

SO maybe they were diving on the other side of the island and staying on the side of the island that was hit. who knows but they are def going for media attention...