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I bet there are survivors still treading water to stay afloat.
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Originally posted by Th_m_s:
I bet there are survivors still treading water to stay afloat.
lets just hope for the best 
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Originally posted by Pre98:
I wonder how many sea-bearing vessels were affected, and if they were, how many were crippled or destroyed..
I'm thinking the casualty reports we're getting are limited to what we can physically reach to account for.. The real death toll is going to be so much higher than we'd expect.
Edit: and as stated, CNN and the media giants BETTER cover this like flies on sh%t..because 9/11 imho does not equal this
I highly doubt any boats were damaged. Out in open sea the boat would have just been lifted under the water swell.
Examaple: It is just like the water ducky in the bath tub. If you ball your fist up and smack your hand into the water next to the ducky. The ducky will turn over due to the shockwave. That is why comet or metoer impacts are so devestating if they hit the water. The shockwaves could be miles high.
Now, if you move your hand back and forth under the ducky you would see the water swell as moves towards the edges of your bath tub. In real life the edges would be land. As the water approaches the shore it encounters shallow water which in turn causes the faster water to form a crest over the shallow, slower water and hit land. Out in open water this would not be possible to due to the water not being shallow.
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Wouldn't submarines be caught up in a rather huge undertoe so to speak (massive current)? I suppose that is the question I should have asked originally.
After thinking about the ships' and boats' scenarios, that makes sense that they'd go undamaged.
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except when you take two rubber duckies and ram them into each other.  or a telephone pole.... but ones out sea "should" be ok. but i wonder if that also caused HUGE waves out at sea? in that case, many older boats and personal boats wouldnt be able to handle having tons of water pouring down on top of it. typically, only commercial boats are built for such scenarios (i believe)
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the waves don't become huge until they reach land so the boats out to sea would be ok.
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according to fox news tonight the death toll is up to 40,000 and is expected to go much higher. perhaps even doubled. 
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This is really pissing me off. I'm watching the news, and flip it on at 9:00am to see how things are in asia. Rather than hearing the newest information about the tsunami and death toll, I'm seeing "Could it happen here?"
Now, I feel that it is important to cover all aspects and to relate it here at home, but rather than addressing an increasing death toll towering numbers around 40k, they focus on how it could happen in the US and has happened in the US. I want to know what's really going on there. I feel that the Western news media is undermining the seriousness and tragedy of what has happened. Fourty thousand people are confirmed dead, and as acrdklr said, it could even double. That's mind-boggling, people! I'm sure there has to be newer things that developed while we were sleeping (Remember, while we were sleeping it was daytime on the eastern hemisphere).
I've been watching Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN, and all three networks have been focusing on other matters. Anyone feel the same way?
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from the bbc...
"The risk of epidemics means the bodies of many victims will be burned before they can be identified."
That's terrible....
also predictions from the UN that this could be the costliest natural disaster in history.
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Originally posted by acrdklr:
the waves don't become huge until they reach land so the boats out to sea would be ok.
exactly. as the wave reaches shallow water, the energy in the wave is concentrated more and more. beyond the continental shelf, the effects of the wave are hardly felt.
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