Boxing Day Tsunami 2004 Thailand

In this video, we will guide you through an event that happened in 2004 in the Indian Ocean and that affected several countries. This is a tsunami that hit Thailand very hard, which at the time was full of foreign visitors who came to celebrate the Christmas holidays. Enjoy the video and thanks for subscribing to our channel.

[shamcopp]

I survived this Tsunami by clinging on to a coconut or else I would've been sucked into the ocean in Phuket. Today, some 17 years later, I m still alive to tell this shocking episode that happened in my life.

[nollattacykel]

This is pretty accurately described. I was in Khao Lak and was swept away by the water and by sheer luck survived 2.5 hours in the ocean. Lost my wife and my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter survived miraculously. It isn't so much about the height of the wave but rather the amount of water that creates the devastating force.

[shawnstaton]

I recall this day like it was yesterday. Laying on the beach enjoying the beauty of the water and surroundings as soon as I seen the water retreat. I knew what was happening. I jumped up screamed Tsunami and loudly told people to get to high ground.. Most just looked at me & stood there. Maybe they didnt understand my Language. So i ran... After it was over I walked back to see utter devastation. I dropped to my knees and cried. I stayed helping locate bodies it finally took its grip on me when i found the first child. I left and came back to the USA 3 days later. As an American we take for granted what God throws at us. And no storm in the USA can match the devastation that a Tsunami can do... Rest in Peace all those who perished on this day.

[anniebieber]

I still get goosebumps, chills & a lump in my throat watching all those people on the beach looking at the wall of water coming in. A single story is equal to 13 feet, imagine a 3 story building coming at you, or as in Banda Aceh, a solid black EIGHT story building. It's tragic that this event had to be the thing that educated much of the world on Tsunami Warning Signs.

[angelaorsini]

Esta tragédia foi a pior que já vi em minha vida, morreram 227.898 pessoas oficialmente, foram 14 países com ondas com até 30m de altura . Essa e a do Japão pareciam até cena de filme !!! O que mais me impressiona, é o poder de superação destas pessoas, reconstruindo a vida, sem saber quando haverá outra ... Eu já sairia para o mais longe possível da costa !

[richardbarry]

I will never forgot one scene from those tsunamis in 2004. The news showed a wave coming in and out in the middle of where the water receded, an individual was out there with no way to escape or run with how fast the water was coming in. The individual turned his back on the wave until the wave got to him and swept him under. I don’t know what I would have done under those circumstances but I think about that person frequently.

[lestatsgames]

I grew up largely around the SE coast of the US. We don’t get tsunamis, yet. Somehow one thing I learned at an early age was when the ocean starts pulling away from you rapidly, you get away rapidly towards high ground as far from it as you can. I knew that back in the 1960s. It wasn’t taught in school, but other kids knew it as well.

[borleyboo]

I remember as a child learning that if the sea recedes quickly and very far out, it’s a sign of danger and one must get to high ground. I don’t remember where I learnt this but it’s stuck with me for many years and now, at 66 I still remember that nugget of possible life saving information.

[Ronaldocarey]

Before that 2004 tragedy, most people had no idea that retreating water was a danger sign.
I felt for the victims. I was in my bed that morning in Yangon, Myanmar and even we felt the tremor.
Later at night we heard the devastating news.

[kimdogmom]

Never underestimate the power of the sea.

[irulanam]

this is great historical moment too for all of us indonesian people especialy from my people of aceh province.... we are never ever can forget this moment a changes everything until

[stephen]

I was finishing school in 2004 and had never heard of the term tsunami. It was a complete shock to do many people that it can exist, so I could understand why people didn't understand the receding ocean was a sign of danger.

[Noog]

From all the videos I've seen of the tsunami I was kind of skeptical that it came all at once like how it was shown in The Impossible in Khao Lak. But now because of this I feel like they did it really well. And that fact that it came so fast there was no footage of it in Khao Lak is horrific. It just killed anyone who stopped and tried to film it.

[ScottRandolph-dddr]

😢 greetings from coastal Mississippi. December 26, 2004...if we only knew that in 8 months on August 29, 2005, that Hurricane Katrina would destroy the Mississippi coast with a 30 foot storm surge. We were warned. So sorry for all the heartache to those who did and didn't survive. It took nearly 20 years for Mississippi coast to recover. ❤

[flowersflowers]

I remember that day well. I froze as I sat & watched this horrifying scene as if i was watching a movie. The terrifying looks on the people who had no idea what was taking place. One minute they were enjoying the beautiful beach, relaxing in the sun & then within minutes their lives would never be the same.

[pyrotechnick]

Lesson learned. If the ocean suddenly recedes for no reason assume it's an incoming tsunami
because why else would the ocean suddenly recede dozens of feet?

[adamwb]

😢😢... thank God, I survived the incident. It was horrible and unforgettable for many years.

[christoph]

so what to learn, if the sea suddenly retreats much farther out than normal, ... collect your family and get to high ground as soon as possible right!?

[yeonchae]

The Netflix movie ''The Impossible" brings me here.. A true story about tsunami happened here year 2004..

[FloozieOne]

I came across one of your videos by accident. I thought I had seen all the ones of the 2004 Tsunami, but it was a new one. Happily I started watching them all! Excellent presentations with super footage, (mostly, I suppose it is hard to film while you are running for your life), and the maps and explanations wrap it all up in a neat and informative package. Thanks for doing the work to put these together and you have a new subscriber.