Asian Tsunami 2004, Koh Ngai, Thailand 

I’m so sorry.

I’m so sorry :(

Funny how literally everyone knows someone who died in a disaster.

Damn Bro

@@philbecker4676 It’s honestly not all that surprising considering that over a quarter million people died in this tusnami alone. That’s a staggering number for one single event among many thousands. Easy to see how knowing someone who died in a disaster isn’t all that uncommon. It’s just a different take on the “six degrees of separation” theory.

Funny how he was a GEOPHYSICIST but it took his wife to have the common sense of GETTING AWAY lol

Lol that’s such a scientist thing to do, any dangerous phenomena is so fascinating that they forget they’re actually in danger

@Roger Rabbit 🔧 Did he keep all his money in a bucket?

back then many people are so clueless about tsunami...its like they never knew about this

I remember reading about a primary (elementary) school teacher from London who was the only one to recognise that a Tsunami was approaching his beach - he cleared the beach too and probably saved many lives.

This wasn't a big deal. Where was serious tsunami it receded way way more

The water recedes like that when I get out of the bathtub

I was looking for the water to pull back quite a bit more than that...you can still see the power of the water just a few feet off of the shore.

@@ligametis If this was in the area more seriously hit, the people operating the camera likely would have died, and the camera itself likely would have been destroyed.

Thank you for sharing that because I wouldn't have known that otherwise. I understand the part that if the animals start leaving and if they go quiet then you need to get the hell out of there and get to High Ground.

Yeah 100%, I was on the beach in spain last week and was thinking about the ocean receding and I wouldn’t have had a clue what it meant before 2004

Facts! I like you. You know perspective

I remember when the tsunami occurred in 2004, which of course was a time just before social media really began. People wondered how people could possibly die from a wave. And then they saw the videos of the disaster on TV and online of when the tsunami was occurring. People then wondered how anyone could have possibly survived it.

That’s because most people are thick as shite.

Jesus that's a sad bubble some of you people live in then.

I live in Florida and we often get hurricanes and your right. It’s so strange because a few hours before the storm hits it can be beautiful out and sunny and the birds seem to honestly chirp even louder than normal ( not warning sounds just regular ones) then all of a sudden as the day goes on and just the beginning of the wind starts ( feels mostly like a breeze) you listen and hear nothing. Sometimes even before the wind. Dead silence. It’s actually a little freaky and especially when the stormy skies start rolling in and the winds pick up a bit it’s nerve wracking- even though we all( Floridians) love us a good hurricane- while they are still very dangerous mostly if you stay inside a well built place you’ll be perfectly fine. I would rather deal with hurricanes than anything else because you at least have warning and time to prepare or leave if it’s bad enough. My heart goes out to all who have lost their lives due to natural disasters but yes the animals are a gift to know what’s going on before we do sometimes

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Oddly enough, the same case for wild fires. The animals will know before you do.

That's what you call a black swan event.

You haven't lived on the east coast of Australia where freak 'sets' come out of nowhere. These wave sets claim the lives of quite a few rock fishermen every year.

@@jurgentreue1200 Australian coast is nothing compared to the 04 tsunami. 4 miles inland the water went

@@jurgentreue1200 Also sneaker waves happen in Oregon coast too and swipe the beach regularly. Big tide swings plus big sea shelfs plus winter storms equal tons of water displacement

lol

Wow.

Dang. Sucks they didn’t die with all the locals.

This same thing happened on Easter Island! Everyone’s gone!

I can’t even imagine.

Terrifying, just terrifying! Reading this gave me such a chill. Thank goodness for that fishing trip 🥺

Whenever someone says something like that they just jinxed themselves.

Impresionante ojalá haya sobrevivido wow

@@RoccosVideos We all say it....one time or another.

@@mikejohn0088 I would literally never say something like that. I’m not typically superstitious but saying something like that would be tempting fate. Like when they were calling the titanic unsinkable, just tempting fate.

@@RoccosVideos he created the tsunami singlehandedly. It was his fault. He should never have said that!

I agree 100%

You said it perfectly. I'd just find it all amusing and stay right there at the beach. But we'll never know.

Hindsight is always 20/20. I've learned in my day to day that I'll have a rapid thought such as, "that's strange" or "this is odd". 99/100 it's something simple that I didn't understand at the time, but because of the affect the 1 time has I'm trying to train myself to listen to that thought because my subconscious may be putting things together that I'm not aware of yet. Yet in hindsight it's much easier to organize warnings compared to lack of experience.

But it's RU-vid, the home of millions of commenters who have infallible understanding of science and philosophy and can beat up all takers.

That instinct was instilled hundreds of thousands of years ago. People are typically just too self absorbed to pay attention to the world around them. Tsunamis are literally a yearly occurrence since the Dawn of water on this planet. Not this new thing that just started in 2004.

It's also worth noting that not always when ocean is receding it indicates an tsunami it might happen due to some other reasons to. But i guess it's better to be safer than sorry, so yeah if you are near the ocean and saw something like that you better get to higher ground for atleast the next 4,5 hours.

The modern tsunami warning system came from that event. Like.. The wave that suddenly moving down. Soo you comment here is like teaching a veteran of world war 2 how to design a tank. Modern tank designs came from the World War 2 event if u guys dont know about that. but good tho to teach the viewerrs here that dont know about that

ok ty

Call for assistance? Um you must be liberal.

@@Norseman311 you would just die on that mountain so

The water reducing actually super fast if tsunami occur

It look exactly like moving water in a bowl

What

Yes

How

That was all that happened, some places just saw a tickle.

It sure was a learning experience for a lot of people

This is probably all what happened. Wave becomes smaller, in many places it was just a meter or less. Not a lot worse than a stronger wave.

This was in 2004 dude, is that too hard to understand?

Easy to judge when you watch and comment from footage 17 years later.

I'm sorry you had to went through that. Must be tough to witness.

Glad you survived. Awful to go thru something that devastating.

Interesting. Can I ask if there was a reason why? Do you live in a tsunami zone?

Same for me, we always knew that as a kid early on. I'm from NZ

Yep!!! It’s almost like when you take a deep inhale, and blow out as hard as you can!!!

As Obi Wan would say, it’s over once you have the high ground

I was watching for this to go out and didn't see it (only in). A little frustrating if it's supposed to be obvious.

I’m so sorry 😔

Sad to hear! 😢

My wife is Indonesian... we were here in the USA when this happened... I remember her being online listening to radio stations from back home and checking every article she could find...

Nah its not a tsunami lol ,

@@joemama8243 ....

Your comment is underrated. 🤣👍

Well, that wasn't the only tsunami. It will happen again somewhere.

Yeah they all should've been on the island at that time and there would be no death since all of them would've survived.

No hidden camera footage from the women's changeroom or showers.

True, actually it is pretty well behaved- it's almost always acting normally. an enormous earth quake caused that tsanumi, and that was 18 years ago. Hopefully more people in that part of the world now know to quickly run from the shore to higher ground when the water recedes. RIP to all who died that sad day

@@Mike1614b it was a nuclear bomb detonated underwater. Not the first time. Look into it.

Far out man.....

@@TheSwissChalet so the tsunami is caused by underwater nuke ? how about the earthquake? is there a credible witness that saw the explosion?

That was so insightful and deep.

I was in Singapore by the beach with my 4 yo niece that day. She loves swimming and building sandcastle by the beach. But that day she refused to step into the water at all. It was unusually windy and the water was warm....I remembered as it was early morning and not the hot, sunny afternoon. So we packed up our picnic after 2 hrs since she was fearful of the water and we reached home and took a nap after lunch. Woke up at around 4pm to news about the tsunami in phuket......crazy days then..

@@myownlilbubble Do you have any clue why she intuitively knew that? or might be just a coincidence. I'm curious, did she explain why she's afraid?

@@jakew4829 she told it that it was unusually windy and water was warm. This made the gorl frightened

Yay! Shout out for Perth! I live in Ellenbrook!

@@myownlilbubbledivine intervention

In the Coast Guard in 89 and patrolling near the Valdez when it ran aground. That was the most horrifying thing I've seen in person. The images don't capture it. Oil everywhere, getting in and on everything. Birds, fish, seals. A local mass extinction event. Obviously that was at a much smaller scale than the tsunami, but to see it in person, yeesh. Will never forget it

I was on the Abe Lincoln as well and was dropped off in Hawaii before the boat left Port of calls because my enlistment was over. I saw it as it unfold and my boys emailed me telling me about it. Should have extended 18 months. Was part of Eng/E-div

*Banda Aceh

yea. aceh got it pretty bad. it was jaw dropping. never know that kind of disaster is exist at that time

@@Bubbles99718 to think Deepwater Horizon topped that

I’m in Washington, near St Helens. I love it here.

😐 In Florida, there _IS NO_ higher place. Granted, I'm not expecting anything to come in from the Atlantic in any reasonable scenario, but still... What's the winning play in this scenario? You live in Daytona, Fl and while walking along the beach, you see the water suddenly begin to recede.... You can: A) Panic and run inside the nearest 25 story Hotel and begin climbing stairs AFAP. B) Panic and run to your car, attempting to make it across the 80ft tall bridge, continuing to the mainland. C) Panic and stop ATOP the 80 ft bridge to the mainland, hoping the wave is under that height. D) Panic and freeze like a deer in the headlights, unable to think or move as the wave approaches. E) T-pose in an attempt to assert your dominance over mother nature. Not many good options for a Florida man. Not a great deal of time to make it that far inland.

⁠@@snickle1980T-POSE LOL

Mount St Helens is landlocked. its nowhere near the sea.

@@roquefortfiles there was/is a lake there. A tsunami isn’t just for the sea.

We people in sri lanka never experienced natural disasters other than rainy season floods and landslides . (Closest we knew was of a historical event 2000 years ago. The Chronicals record that the gods angry at the king for a great misdeed sent the sea towards the land, and to appease the gods the king had to sacrifice his daughter to the sea, after which the slowly rising sea water levels subsided. The boat carrying the princess landed at another coastal area so no lives were lost) So thousands of locals gathered at the shore to look in awe at the sea going inwards. If only people knew so many lives would have been saved.

Missed it by a few months, my deployment ended just before this Tsunami hit. Spent time in Phuket during the deployment. Patong Beach was nice place to relax.

Same, I'm from a desert so i don't know about tsunamis

Tsunamis are a normal occurrence there and they normally are not a brutal as the one coming. The 2004 for was a mega tsunami, the largest in recorded history at the time.

Same, those just look like big waves to me and rough waters. I wouldn't have known that a massive tsunami was coming until it were too late

I live in the American Midwest and know the warning signs of a tsunami, but somehow people who vacation on beaches in an active earthquake zone managed to miss that safety meeting.

@@paulomilan515 you don't stay on the beach for ANY tsunami warning, based on how "brutal" you think they won't be. Tornadoes are a normal occurrence here this time of year, but I don't run outside to try to see one when there is a confirmed one on the ground, and the folks here who do often pay for their stupidity. I'm not saying these people knew anything was amiss, but I'm referring to your particular point that tsunamis there are somehow normalized (doubtful assertion), and thus it's understandable if one isn't taken seriously.

In one of these videos there's a huge wave careening toward a bunch of onlookers when a woman says "I sure hope it doesn't hit the beach." Even my ears couldn't believe their ears at how stupid some people can be. Where did she think it would land on a mountain top?

@@tortillasarenotbiceps7622 Maybe she thought the tsunami would do a U-turn

Witness the might of the seas as sea fairy said.

Water is so strong, it can cut through rocks. That giant hairball clogging up the sink however, and forget it.

Any body of WATER

Search Tilly Smith. Was it her that save you that day?

That little girl was a hero!

A little girl ... because today's adults love to watch and video... too busy being entertained

@@YeeHaw168 not sure as we was opposite the end of Bangla Road on sun beds after a brilliant night out celebrating Xmas. The beach was not to busy and I remember seeing a guy on a jet ski a quarter of a mile out sitting on the sand as the water had gone and he was shouting at the shore confused.It was surreal .

I wonder if that was the schoolgirl from England that had just learned about that effect in school and saved her entire family's life?

Yeah you will learn that I. 5 th grade when you are nowhere near an ocean The people who died are basically retarded as they don’t have the mental capacity of a 5th grader. While living in the danger zone. Rest in piss

The only correct comment here. Lots of bs experts (no surprise there: it’s youtube after all, home of all armchair experts) with advice which clearly shows they have no clue. “Oh when you see a wave blah blah blah.” Bunch of morons. Truth is, these waves are relatively small, and it’s a common occurrence to have waves at the beach, even bigger ones, with no consequences. I went to the beach all my life, and you know what people do when there are waves? They go in the water. 99% of the time what follows is a beer and a burger. Yes, water receding can be a tell tale sign, not all waves are the same, and not all geographical locations are the same (in some places you should be more wary of sudden phenomena), but in the end people relaxing on the beach are... relaxing. They’re not on high alert, and they aren’t watching a clip of what actually happened. Being on high alert at the beach would be stressful af. So yeah, go prepared, learn about natural catastrophes and how to avoid them, but cut these people some slack: it’s not impossible to be caught off guard, especially while on vacation!

I would have been ignorant. I have only seen the ocean about 5 times.

Gee really?

😁

😂😂

😅😅

🤣LMAO

😂😂😂

Bullshit. Not how it works.

Yeah sure I bet his car was also a Bugatti Veyron and they drove up the golden road

So true

Speacilly when the title says TSUNAMI

One video I saw a Thai woman told her male coworkers it was a tsunami..they mocked her…another group of people were saved when a teenager saw the receding waters and told them about it being a sign of a tsunami..miraculously the adults heeded her warning and that teenager saved many lives…and the Japanese know since they are like a tsunami capital…hence the international use of their word for it…let’s all teach our kids these lessons..Peace

Even if I know this fact this receding didn't look serious. I mean, look how much it recedes when serious tsunami comes. And to be fair in this location it was just a bigger wave.

@@ligametis looked pretty serious to me when the waves almost white capped going backwards

@@kevinhurst9885 yes, this is unusual, but still not that dangerous to run for your life.

@@ligametis over 200k dead prolly wish they ran for their lives. But 👌

@@kevinhurst9885 there was no tsunami in this particular place as you can see... So no dead people. Deaths were in other locations...

Paint killers feel good regardless might not be connected. Could of got into trap rap

​@@sadhu7191 bruh..

How did he die

oh my god oh tragic

@@advent6679 some ppl die from ptsd

More people then your figures. Never give an actual number, because nobody really knows exactly how many people died.

Good to know

remember 90% of the worlds population is ignorant of 99% of world natural disaster signs oh mountain slides earthquakes cracks in cement in asphalt tide receding they see the signs but not understand

JESUS CHRIST will come very soon!

@@bekennejesusdeinesundenund2427 Ill be there to kill him lol

@@shillian4770 You must fear the wrath of GOD!

They didn't run and just got their towels wet.

I did not even realize this

That's crazy

Exactly leave it there you don’t own it your only borrowing it until you die you can’t take it with you

@@cjj2624 Even our body on which we spend years conditioning and looking good is a temporary place to live in...

I think they didn’t know. They were on then beach. I know after what happens I would not feel safe. Santa Cruz had 2 ft and swamped a boat. They were fortunate.

They're all happy on vacation minutes from disaster unaware that not too far away over 200k Indonesians just died.

Yeah. Anything out of the blue should switch on at least the warning mode on in us.

I would have known it was trouble but I am born in 1975 so maybe we learned more about this stuff then later generations. Sorry but I begin to wonder. Because I have known since I was a kid.

@@erikalulea3608 if the phone ain’t shouting “ danger” everything is ok People now are are little more than zombies fixated on their phone

They all lived, read the information below the video.

Swchlt: That might be true, but I guarantee they saw some horrific sh*t, when they were supposed to be having the time of their lives. That's the point, surely.

@@TheOrlandoTrustfull That's for sure!

@Bryan Villafuerte Yes but There were so many who died in that Tsunami. 250,000 through Thailand Sri Lanka India and Maldives. Finding a story that matches is nearly impossible. From his descriptions, and certain behaviors and characteristics as he grew a little more, we feel in our hearts that they would likely fit the Somalian town where there were around 300 deaths, but there are not many internet published accounts to read through.

Reincarnazione?? Mah chi lo sa, tutto può essere...

Oh wow to believe your Child is the reincarnation of someone who died in that Tsunami is Just another Level of retarded.

Bro yo cousin on acid or sum shit ☠️

No one has yet to reply, but your father was clearly a very lucky man that day.

oh my god, what happened to the owner of the motor vehicle? you think he ran back to his vehicle to escape the tsunami only to find that it was gone?

ain't that a bitch, running to your car, only to find that it had been stolen by coviidd19's thieving dad.

They wrrent

😂😂😂😂😂😂

We all survived - thanks for your concern. I was the one that filmed it. We were on the landward side of the island and the wave wasn't that big. I am actually a TV cameraman and went on to film news reports on the Tsunami's aftermath in Sri Lanka, Aceh (Indonesia) and then back in Thailand in Koh Phi Phi and Khao Lak (which were much more badly affected). This is me - www.julianhadden.com

my wife was pregnant with our first child then - and he is just about to turn 16 at the weekend.

@@JulianHadden1 I'm very glad to hear that :)

@@JulianHadden1 aI am glad you are doing well...

@@stacuu2222 why would you think that it was a phone and not an actual camera? People use cameras to film stuff right? Also keep in mind that this was in 2004 and the smartphone with a camera was introduced in 2007 by apple. That was a year that many claim ruined our lives by giving rise to this screen age

I hope you're having a good life after that rough start. 💓

⭐humor

You cried?ah its all good then 🤣

It wasn't

That's sad that people didn't know what a tsunami was before 2004. I knew what it was in the 90s. You'd have to be living under a rock to not know what it is.

@@babyhandgrenade4004 when I was in the USA in calafornia I saw tsunami warning signs on the beach something never seen in europe, coming from europe, it would take me a while to understand what was happening and even more time to get to somewhere safe. However I am much more aware of landslides, so much so I as look for the signs as a common practice. I guess you get used to understanding the risks around you.

maybe you did not know

There's a video that compiled every single tsunami/giant wave scene in movies starting from the early 1900's. Before 2004 only a handful of movies did scenes like that. A handful over a span of 100 years. Post 2004 it exploded in movie popularity. 2004 was humanity's great knowledge level up. The ocean is a sleeping monster.

They can in the Atlantic region .....but not in the Indian Ocean at that time

This is probably far away if only such small wave arrived.

@@ligametis very true....but trust me, I would head for higher ground faster than a fart moved in a wind storm ‼️‼️‼️‼️🇨🇦

@@Dutchy-1168 wouldn't you think this was just a larger wave. If you didn't know about any earthquake.

Tsunamis have nothing to do with weather

Certamente não, pelo jeito nem os nativos tinham esse conhecimento. Aqui no Brasil nem existe aulas de noções básicas de segurança.

Do you not learn it in School. I mean yes I live by coast but knew as a kid what a Tsunami is.

Какое явление ? Обычный ливень и шторм ? Вы че там , вообще загоняете ?

Similar case for me, since I was born a year after 9/11. It's hard to contextualize certain events when you've never experienced them firsthand or on TV.

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 Dude exactly! Seeing old news clips and videos of 9/11 is always super weird for me too. Thinking about the years directly preceding my conception and birth always makes me feel a little “odd” and almost disassociated if that makes sense. It doesn’t help that I listen to a ton of 90’s hip hop that makes me ponder that time period a lot lmaoooo

@@emperorconstantinexipalaio4121 Similar case here. I mean, I listen to a ton of eurobeat despite it being from the 90s and only watching exactly the first season of initial d ONCE. As well as listening extensively to the music my parents, specifically my mother, grew up with in Mexico.

I was born in Germany in 1993. I feel the same way about my parents telling me about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when I was growing up. I got really interested in it and could never quite believe that it happened only 4 years before I was born. My parents were already in adulthood and experiencing it all. It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that WW2 is less than a hundred years ago and that my parents experienced the end of what war had symbolized in Germany.

Let's remember that this is happened in 2004, back then people weren't familiar with 'tsunamis', these tourists probably thought 'Ah, just another big wave 🌊 , and all will be back soon to normal'.

@@mariaamalbahdad1337 people still behave like that today... and please don't act like 2004 was an ancient time, it's a recent history so...

Do you know it is giant? Most likely this is all there was. Not every location gets full power, in most it arrives already weak, like a bigger wave.

@@mariaamalbahdad1337 wasn't it just a big wave? I mean in most locations it is no longer deadly natural disaster, just a larger wave.

@@macdompeanuts6629 2004 is recent history, so? It does not change the fact that until the Indian Ocean tsunami occurred, tsunami was something a lot of people just know vaguely about.

In 2004, people weren't familiar with tsunamis.

Because just like you before this day nobody really knew a few little funny waves and then the ocean receding a little meant hell was on its way

It didn't recede that much, probably this wave was everything that was left from tsunami power.

this is Graeme from the video now facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158699542521935&set=pb.573726934.-2207520000.&type=3

Same thing in Louisiana from hurricane Katrina, boats inland from the tidal surge .

Up... the... Irons!

Run for your lives!

Damn! Never expected to see another Maiden fan here! Up the Irons! ⚒🤘🤘

I think if you're out on the ocean you don't even notice it.

Yes, you can ride the waves. Into the nearest building. In a tsunami the whole body of water is moving inlands. There's nothing to ride in the open seas and you don't want to be anywhere near a wave when they are close to the shore.

Like anque no te entendi nada xd

No

Read it online. On Google, specific articles, don't expect people to tell you things. That causes misinformation.

if the water recedes fast and further out to sea than normal, start running for the hills.

On any beach at the ocean, if you’re watching the water, it will be very predictable both in the distance it approaches you AND the distance it moves away from you (recedes). As you stand there or sit there, it’s not going to deviate much. So if you suddenly see the ocean recede very far back from its prior movement, something is very wrong. Very rare in the Atlantic because the plates underneath are different than the Pacific or Indian Ocean where tsunamis typically occur. Hope this helps.

@@Anca820 thank you so much! That did help me in watching this video.

Yes. But its not high wave . U can see the water level increase in the front of the sea shore

The water did nothing unusual here. There was only about 6 feet difference between the height of the incoming wave and the low of the out going wave. This is not a problem and a daily occurrence at most beaches. Do you think beaches normally have mini baby squirt waves?

@@tonyhogg9839 this is nothing more than some rogue wave. I know this is still tsunami, but it seems it has lost most of its power.