American diver underwater during catastrophe

[green lantern]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/tsunami.diver/index.html

CNN) -- An American woman who was scuba diving with her husband in Thailand as one of Sunday's tsunamis roared overhead said she was oblivious to the disaster until after they surfaced, her mother told CNN on Tuesday..........

[Hydrok]

I like the picture caption... "damaged hotel" the hotel is in 8 pieces and floating around.

[Redratio1]

Amazing stories are coming out of this disaster. It just shows how large scale it really is. Staggering really.

[huck]

My old climatology teacher said that a tsunami could pass right under boats on the open sea, but they would not be affected, because almost all of the force of the wave would be concentrated in the earth and underwater. It is not until the water gets shallow that the force is pushed upward.

Or at least, I think that's what he said. It's been a while. :)

I wonder what would happen if we had a tsunami on the Atlantic coast. Would the force of the tsunami be broken by the continental shelf?

[GI Joe]

I read about a Briton who was surfing when it hit, he said he rode it out on his stomach.

[The_Penguin]

My old climatology teacher said that a tsunami could pass right under boats on the open sea, but they would not be affected, because almost all of the force of the wave would be concentrated in the earth and underwater. It is not until the water gets shallow that the force is pushed upward.
For the most part, that's accurate.
I wonder what would happen if we had a tsunami on the Atlantic coast.
Mass death.
Would the force of the tsunami be broken by the continental shelf?
I doubt it, it doesn't stop until it hits land and puts everything in a spin cycle.