Astonishing Indian Ocean Tsunami Video Footage- Dec 26, 2004

A collection of clips recorded by people actually in and near the devastating tsunami of December 2004. To my knowledge, no such video exists of the 30 - 40 foot tall wall of water which came rushing towards the coastline. If anyone was able to get it on video, no doubt the person holding the camera was swept out to sea or swept inland to his death.

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• tsunami
• sunami
• December
• 2004
• Indian
• Ocean
• Thailand
• earthquake
• earth
• quake
• epicenter
• mass
• flood
• devastation
• devastating
• dead
• death
• destruction
• destroy

[Galodude]

wow... I couldn't believe that the water went so high in that restaurant!!! Did water get on that camera on that last clip?

[CincinnatiGifts]

@Galodude I don't know. It's not my video. Chances are some water did splash up on the camera, but apparently not enough to damage the camera.

[milew666]

Is there a reason the idiot filming this did not drop the camera to try and help those kids?

[CincinnatiGifts]

It's obvious that by looking at the sheer force of the raging water, it would have been nearly impossible to do anything but watch helplessly.

Maybe he thought that the best help he could give was simply to record exactly what the power of water CAN do, so that others can see the devastating effect nature can have, and in doing so, warn others.

Maybe more lives will be saved from watching this video than could have been saved by risking the cameramans' life to help those in the video.

[CincinnatiGifts]

Upload the vid

[cockwiper]

its not like it was a tornado cuz that would've been deadly

[MtaBus5102]

And your Dumbass is just standing in the middle of everything like nothing can harm you -_-

[jdollinter]

Guess I was wrong about the blonde guy, I do see him now trying to reach a hand out to them early before more water rushes in. Sorry about that.

[Homie21774]

@jdollinter Are you kidding me. Those people were a lost cause, did you see how powerful those waves were? If you try to rescue them then you might get killed along with them.

[JerseyShore117]

How high was the wave when it hit the shore?

[lmos26]

So many people thought it was neat when the water receded, they ran out to grab fish even,  completely unaware of the wall of death approaching. Ill never forget that tiny silhouette of a person just standing there frozen as it approached, he never even tried to run

[17amedeo]

@jdollinter Have a look at the documentary 'Tsunami caught on camera',( you'll find it on Youtube) to see exactly what that blonde guy did for the elderly couple. In the end he helped save the life of the old man, unfortunately the old lady died. In that situation what would you have done ?? probably nothing !

[TszSeany]

@milew666 nah he just wanted youtube views :P

[jdollinter]

Notice how the blonde guy in swimming trunks did nothing to help save the eldery

couple struggling against the water. Guess he's a product of these times.

[5575mcrp]

Unreal.