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Is it possible to survive a mega tsunami?

Could you survive a Tsunami if you were in diving and stayed under the water while it was happening?

  • A girl at work where my boyfriend works was in that terrible Tsunami a few years back. She and her partner were deep sea diving and when they realised something was up, they stayed under the water and missed the whole thing. I'm not saying that they are lying but it seems incredible to me that they were able to survive such a devastating storm?

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    Probably quite true. A tsunami is just a wave. Waves gain height as the bottom shallows. All that energy has to go someplace and the only place left is up. Many of those dive boats only reported a meter high wave out where they were. At most, the divers in the vicinity would have just dropped and then risen that meter or so in the water column with perhaps a surge towards open ocean then back to shore as the tsunami approached ( initially dropping the water level, then rising up again as the wave passed) Knocked around a bit but that would be about it if the water level was deep enough.

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no they could not have the tsunami wave is caused by an earthquake at the sea floor and the wave starts at the sea floor so they would have been slammed in to the underwater rocks it is probably just a tale

Court M

I'm guessing that by deep sea diving you mean scuba diving, if yes then I'm pretty sure that it's true. I was there and I know from what I heard people saying that they didn't notice much difference underwater except murkier water. The people who were out diving were the lucky ones who happened to be in the right place at the right time, same goes for people who were out on boats. The tsunami mainly affected the people on the shore because thats where the tide goes out an abnormally long way and hits the shore as a 3metres+ wave. I think the girl is telling the truth.

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the tsunami wave is not just on the surface. it is from the top of the water all the way down to the shelf. only close to the shore where the shelf starts to rise does the wave also rise. so your friends would not have escaped. the wave would have swept them up all the same and most likely carried them inland instead of missing them completely as your friends would like you to believe. you would be seriously injured in this event and would most likely not live to tell the tale. good story but that is all it is.

em2sswoods

I reckon you probably could survive, but wouldn't it be incredibly hard to stay underwater for that long? I mean, I'm not boasting or anything, but I am quite good at swimming underwater, but I cant last that long, maybe he's good at holding his breath?

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I don't know - I guess if they were deep enough and far enough out, maybe - a tsunami causes the near shore waters to be drawn back into the sea and then the wave hits - so they would have had to be REALLY deep and REALLY far out. I guess anything is possible.

kwflamingo

it is very possible. if the were on the surface then they prolly wouldnt have survived. but being under the water with an oxygen tank they prolly could have survived cuz the bottom layers of water arent moved as much as the surface waters.

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