You-Tube videos of tsunami damage

Wow-I wonder how many total boats were lost with all of the waves. The Brookings looks like a first wave in the dock level video--probably later in the helo. Santa Cruz looks like pretty well up the harbor--wonder about near the entrance? Lots of damage...

Thanks for the links!
 
 
I guess all the people taking videos knew they were high enough to avoid getting swept away? Still seems a little foolish to me.

It's sad to see so many boats lost or damaged, but obviously not nearly as bad as what's happening in Japan. The pictures and video from over there are truly heartbreaking, and the worst may still be to come.

On the (cynical) plus side, the salvage companies, repair people, and dealerships might see a much needed uptick in business.
 
I was on my way to Korea to survey a USNS ship with a stop for a connecting flight in Narita/Tokyo Japan. the flight was diverted to Sapporo due to the earthquake. When I made it back to Narita/Tokyo I ended up in a hotel for one night and was woken many times in just a few hours by after shocks. These after shocks made the hotel sway so badly that it made me sick to my stomach. The Japanese are a very strong, proud people that would normally never ask for assistance for anything. They need our help desperately now. Please if nothing else, say a prayer for the entire countries populace.

Thanking all of you in advance, Retnavy
 
On Passagemaking under Power, Dave Swan, who owns a Rough Water 57 describes taking his boat (and hundreds more also went to sea) from the Ala Wai in Honolulu Hawaii. The problem going out were the slower boats--some were only able to make 2 knots, and avoid running over them. Coming back in, it was navigation thru the reef, because even 10 hours after the Tsunami hit, there was still a lot of surge in the pass. Once in the harbor, it was very difficult to get the boats into the slips--again there was still significant surge, which would push the boat 2 to 3 slilps sideways as they tried to line up.

The boats which stayed in that or other nearby harbors sustained significant damage.
 
That footage taken offshore is really terrifying. The fact that the wave was so big that far out and so wide that the ship didn't fall of the back of the wave at all, but just rode over it is testamony to just how big it was.

I really feel for the sailors on there because they had to know what was going to happen back on shore. To experience that and be so helpless to stop was was coming must have weighed very heavily on them.
 
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