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From one of the links [0] in the article, this simply bonkers description of a boat riding a tsunami wave like a surfboard... "As the wave passed Cenotaph Isla
by onychomys 4y ago
From one of the links [0] in the article, this simply bonkers description of a boat riding a tsunami wave like a surfboard...
"As the wave passed Cenotaph Island it seemed to be about 50 feet high near the center of the bay and to slope up toward the sides. It passed the island about 2 1/2 minutes after it was first sighted, and reached the Badger about 1 1/2 minutes later. No lowering or other disturbance of the water around the boat was noticed before the wave arrived.
The Badger, still at anchor, was lifted up by the wave and carried across La Chaussee Spit, riding stern first just below the crest of the wave, like a surfboard. Swanson looked down on the trees growing on the spit, and believes that he was about 2 boat lengths (more than 80 feet) above their tops. The wave crest broke just outside the spit and the boat hit bottom and foundered some distance from the shore. "
[0] https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
- eesmith 4y agoYou might like this dramatized portrayal of the Gouverneur Generaal Loudon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_Generaal_Loudon_(ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_Generaal_Loudon_(sh... ) facing the tsunami from Krakatoa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sga7dooXn1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sga7dooXn1Y .