Chris Nel, a surfer from New Zealand was out with four other surfers on the south coast of Samoa’s Savai’i island when they all noticed the water getting weird, according to as story in The Age.
“All of a sudden the water went real weird, it kind of glassed off and got real lumpy, then we started moving real quick, getting sucked out to sea. . . “It was pretty scary looking back and seeing the reef completely dried up. It looked like a volcanic riverbed – it was just gone.” . . . A “big-as spurt of water” then hit the shore, Nel said. . . “I was thinking, `this is it, we’re going to get washed away and smashed into the jungle’.” . . “After about 35 or 45 minutes of floating around we managed to time it between a surge to get to land through the reef channel.”
The five surfers returned to find that the surf camp where they had been staying had been completely destroyed along with all of their belongings. Nel left Samoa today wearing jeans that he “found in the jungle.”
[Link: The Age]
holy crap!
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