Tonga volcano

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Ravenware

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Just wondering if anyone has heard if there were any incidents on live aboard boats, or diving resorts as a result of the Tonga Volcano?

Karen
 
As if there weren't enough fatalities and suffering in general? Why do you worry more about liveaboard and diving center customers than about people in general and local people specifically over there?

 
“Tonga's deputy head of mission in Australia, Curtis Tu'ihalangingie, said Tonga was concerned about the risk of aid deliveries spreading COVID-19 to the island, which is COVID-free.

"We don't want to bring in another wave - a tsunami of COVID-19," Tu'ihalangingie told Reuters by telephone.”…

“Any aid sent to Tonga would need to be quarantined, and it was likely no foreign personnel would be allowed to disembark aircraft, he said.”
 
“Tonga's deputy head of mission in Australia, Curtis Tu'ihalangingie, said Tonga was concerned about the risk of aid deliveries spreading COVID-19 to the island, which is COVID-free.

"We don't want to bring in another wave - a tsunami of COVID-19," Tu'ihalangingie told Reuters by telephone.”…

“Any aid sent to Tonga would need to be quarantined, and it was likely no foreign personnel would be allowed to disembark aircraft, he said.”
IOW, there were probably close to 0 liveaboard or diving center customers in Tonga when the volcano erupted. Or, in other words, close to 0 Western persons to worry about. Only the locals (which apparently wasn't the OP's concern).
 
Human beings are tribalistic by nature and often have a greater concern for those with whom they share something distinctive; a nationality, religion, ethnicity or so-called 'race,' locality of origin, profession or even a hobby. Recreational scuba divers are sometimes portrayed as a bit of a 'community,' of sorts.

If I understand correctly, some far flung destinations don't cater as heavily to a western dive tourist market.

How far away from the eruption were coastal conditions destructive enough to pose a risk to dive resorts and other businesses?
 
You could look at the OPs question from several angles, and maybe there is ambulance chaser mixed in, but given the forum we are on, the question is not a surprise.

You can google video from the island itself. It's educational about how a tsunami starts by inundating the seaside then the wave action in that water beats everything up. I'm lucky to be thousands of miles away.
 
As if there weren't enough fatalities and suffering in general? Why do you worry more about liveaboard and diving center customers than about people in general and local people specifically over there?


The concern doesn't have to be mutually exclusive Storker. But one doesn't come to Scubaboard Accidents and Incidents, to ask your question because that can easily be answered by reading the news. Which it appears Ravenware has done and that led them to wonder about our "community", as per drrich2
 

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