Dear All
I'm in Thailand at the moment and I am heading down to the effected area (Krabi and Phi Phi) to help in the rescue efforts. Here's the question:
If you see a 6m (29 ft) wall of water coming towards the boat that you are on and you are about to dive do you (A) Get in the water as quick as you can and go deep hoping that the wall will pass over you or do you (B) stay in the boat and prey that you survive the wall?
Coming from Australia we deal with waves, large ones at that, on a daily basis and the way to beat smaller waves is just to head straight at that them in the hope of going over the top of them. There was one account of a sailing boat doing that this time around and they survived although the captain did say that at one stage they were verticle. A lot of the boat deaths occured by boats trying to out run the wave or by going at speed sideways. They don't have any kind of waves in Thailand and therefore don't know how to combat them.
I'm in quandry but I think that I would go deep knowing that the boat wouldn't know what to do. I'm interested in what you think if you were in that situation?
Many thanks
Coogeeman
I'm in Thailand at the moment and I am heading down to the effected area (Krabi and Phi Phi) to help in the rescue efforts. Here's the question:
If you see a 6m (29 ft) wall of water coming towards the boat that you are on and you are about to dive do you (A) Get in the water as quick as you can and go deep hoping that the wall will pass over you or do you (B) stay in the boat and prey that you survive the wall?
Coming from Australia we deal with waves, large ones at that, on a daily basis and the way to beat smaller waves is just to head straight at that them in the hope of going over the top of them. There was one account of a sailing boat doing that this time around and they survived although the captain did say that at one stage they were verticle. A lot of the boat deaths occured by boats trying to out run the wave or by going at speed sideways. They don't have any kind of waves in Thailand and therefore don't know how to combat them.
I'm in quandry but I think that I would go deep knowing that the boat wouldn't know what to do. I'm interested in what you think if you were in that situation?
Many thanks
Coogeeman