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Does anyone have any scientific facts that during tsunami, ocean is probably the safest place on earth?
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The Lavenders had unknowingly scuba-dived through a tsunami. It was now hammering their vacation spot, the resort town of Beruwala on the western coast of Sri Lanka, gobbling up homes and boats and people, pulling them all back into the Indian Ocean and then flinging them back at the town again and again, killing hundreds.
Suddenly, it all made sense to the novice divers, the way theyd had to fight the torrential current at the bottom like a hurricane underwater, was how Warren described it. Sixty feet below the surface, his mask was ripped off. It was all they could do to hold on to coral to avoid being sucked away. Warren said, I remember thinking, Gee; I could really learn to hate this sport.
Ironic as it seems, the safest place to be in a tsunami may well be in the ocean itself. It may be safer still to be beneath the surface: as divers weve all experienced how, on a rough day on the dive boat, its much more comfortable once youre down below the surface of the water. And a tsunami at sea doesnt reach great heights; the immense waves dont form till the tsunami starts to reach shallow water and roll up against the ocean floor.