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tsunami photographer

2011 Reader Submission
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Despite the warning sirens, the massive media coverage of the devastation in Japan, the U.S. media warnings for Hawaii and CA and despite the U.S. president in addressing the nation telling people to heed the warnings... Three people thought it would be a good idea to go to the beach and stand on a sandbar to take some photographs of the coming tsunami. All three were swept out to sea but two managed to swim back. The third man was declared dead.

CNN news story:

One person was reported dead and numerous boats and harbors suffered damage in the United States after the tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake off Japan swept across the Pacific Ocean at jet speed Friday.

The fatality was reported in northern California's Del Norte County, where a 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a beach while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival, said Joey Young, a spokesman for the county's emergency operations center.

"We had one person reported missing who has been confirmed dead," Young said. "The Coast Guard has been doing a search for the body, but the oceanic conditions are making it very difficult."

The victim's name had not been released late Friday. He had been standing on a sandbar at the mouth of the Klamath River when he was washed away, Young said. Two of his friends were carried off as well, but were able to return safely to shore, he said.

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It brought six-foot waves to Maui, where harbors remained closed Friday night, and brought 8.1-foot waves to Crescent City, California, about 15 miles north of where the only known U.S. fatality occurred.

A tsunami warning was in effect in the rural area north of Redwood National Park where the victim and his friends had dared to go on the beach. He was declared dead Friday afternoon, after Coast Guard helicopters searched for him for five hours, said Lt. Todd Vorenkamp, a Coast Guard spokesman.

"The shoreline here is a dangerous, treacherous place on a good day, and with a tsunami warning, it's exponentially worse," Vorenkamp said.

Submitted on 03/12/2011

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/03/11/tsunami/index.html?hpt=T2

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