2011-03-11 Santa Cruz Harbor Tsunami

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On March 11, 2011 following a massive earthquake in Japan, a Tsunami made its way across the Pacific and caused damage to boats and docks in the Santa Cruz Harbor.

This video was shot at 12:50 pm from a Robinson R22 from Specialized Helicopters out of Watsonville, CA.

Apologies for how shaky the video is. This was one of my first times shooting video from a helicopter, if anyone wants to donate a Kenyon Labs gyro stabilizer I'm sure my next video would be smooth... like butter!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• santa cruz
• tsunami
• earthquake
• harbor
• 5dm2
• helicopter
• aerial
• sailing
• boats

[jmeove]

Can i have permission to use this far away, shaky, zoom crazy footage, pleeeeeease?

[wavesforsuccess]

Nice footage. 

[DanSDawson]

@paranoiccritic No problem, from this view I totally understand not seeing much. The entire U dock is missing, and all of it's boats gone. This video someone else shot shows more details from the ground, do a YouTube search for 1MDnlcbRMaQ and it will pull it up. (I can't embed a link in a comment) And those waves kept coming from 8 until late afternoon.

[DanSDawson]

@paranoiccritic I'm sorry the destruction didn't show better from the air in the video, but according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the tsunami:

"a forceful shove from the sea sunk 17 vessels and damaged up to 50 more."

"Harbormaster Lisa Ekers pegged damage to harbor facilities, including, docks, pilings and other infrastructure, at $17 million."

"The damage led Gov. Jerry Brown to declare the county a state of emergency that will qualify the county to seek state aid."