American diver underwater during catastrophe - Will Not Believe How

[Jon8503]

Treated By US Government:

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 4:29 PM EST (2129 GMT)

(CNN) -- An American woman who was scuba diving with her husband in Thailand as one of Sunday's tsunamis roared overhead said she was oblivious to the disaster until after they surfaced, her mother told CNN on Tuesday.

Faye Wachs, 34, was diving with her husband, Eugene Kim, Sunday morning off Ko Phi Phi Island in Thailand when they noticed the water visibility worsened and felt as though they were being sucked downward, Helen Wachs said.

Their dive master signaled to them to surface, "but we still didn't know what happened," Faye wrote in an e-mail to her mother Tuesday.

The enormity of what was happening while they were scuba diving was not immediately apparent after they surfaced, Helen Wachs said her daughter told her.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/tsunami.diver/index.html

[eallen]

1. Tsunamis have little effect in open water....

Boats offshore, and divers, come through noticing nothing but a rise and fall in water level. If they notice that.

[tabasco]

2. I see compasionate conservatism has made it to our embassies

Another report of unbelievable conduct by our embassy personnel. :mad:

[pinerow]

3. Ahhh...the U.S. Embassy...a moral Beacon in the fog...

not!!!

[diamond14]

4. best place to be...with your own air...IF you don't get sucked into

the lower levels and OUT into the far off ocean...too deep causes major medical problems and uses MORE air,...and too far out could get you lost and run out of air....

[Moderator]

5. duplicate

locking. discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2879385&mesg_id=2879385