So we told everybody put on your life jackets. Karsten: Is it like in the movies where you.?ĭaniel: It wasn't fast moving like that you can see, but you look at it and then you realize oh shit it's a big wave coming. Karsten: What do you mean - white wall, like.?ĭaniel: Yeah as far as the eye can see the horizon is no longer flat and blue with a line between the sky and the sea, instead it looks like a white wall and it's coming towards us. So when we are like between these 2 island Bamboo and Phi Phi, I remember looking to my right and as far as I can see, the whole horizon is just like a white wall. At this time I would say the word tsunami didn't mean too much to me and I guess a quite big part of the population. We still didn't realize what was going on. Karsten: Well no we're moving away from Bamboo Island because it's a small flat island and we were swimming distance from Bamboo which is maybe a few kilometers from Phi Phi Islands. Karsten: Yeah the next closest island, you were seeking shelter there right? Karsten: How far were you away from the island? Karsten: So you were out in the open water basically and you just heard there were like boats sinking.
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We were between Krabi and Phi Phi Island next to an island called Bamboo Island and started going full speed ahead towards Phi Phi. I'm thinking: That's hours from here, that has nothing to do with us. So we get on the boat, the captain said we need to go quickly because boats are sinking in Phuket. Karsten: So the tourist were like "We paid for this, we want to be in the water?"ĭaniel: Yeah, but at this time nobody knew anything of what was happening.
Karsten: What do you mean they were not too pleased?ĭaniel: They were like "well we paid for this and we want to be here". So I gather up all the tourists and everybody gets up on the boat and they were kind of not too pleased about not being allowed to be in the water but we said oh we're going to go somewhere else. I was wondering: Okay what's going on now? But they had mentioned that there might be a bit of current in the water, so I thought okay maybe there's too much current in this part of the sea and we're going to go somewhere else. And then my captain, he starts honking the horn on the ship. I and a few of the guests were in the water. Daniel: I was working at this company where we were taking people out on a boat and I was one of the two staff in the water.
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