I heard a story of a man who was scuba diving off the shore when the tsunami hit tailand and survived i was wondering if you were to put on scuba gear and get in your pool would being under water reduce the impact of a inbound tsunami?

While the SCUBA gear might help you survive drowning, depeding on how high the wave surge is, you still might get crushed by the water.

BTW, the reason why a diver would survive a tsunami in open water is that the wave doesn't become apparent until it hits shallow water.

This is a complete waste of time. In the time you've burned suiting up, you could have gotten to high ground, a PROVEN way to save your life.

And being in a swimming pool isn't going to do you any good when a bus gets washed in on top of you.

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Originally posted by strandbeest:
This is a complete waste of time. In the time you've burned suiting up, you could have gotten to high ground, a PROVEN way to save your life.

And being in a swimming pool isn't going to do you any good when a bus gets washed in on top of you.

I have to agree with you. Although there is a chance strapping on the scuba gear and diving in the pool could save someone from a tsunami, the better course of action is to high-tail it to high ground.

yes as i agree high ground is the best way, in a perfect world thats what you would do, but keeping in mind that if their was early enough warning youd be fighting hordes of people with the same idea, the scientific question, and eppisode topic is if you suited up in scuba gear would the surface tension in the pool, and being already in water, dispite being washed out and hitting trees ir what not, COULD you survuve

My opinion, obviously is to head for the hills. However, since that is not the discussion I would have to say the scuba gear will save you from drowning assuming you get it on in ample time, and if you are out to sea already it would work.

Obviously the floating debris is a major hazard to your survival and will probably kill you, knock you out or damage your gear. But given the choice I would rather have the gear than not if I had no other options. I'm sure it could improve your survival chance to some degree in desperate times so it would be worth it...as a last resort.

(I would look for a boat or grab a life jacket and climb a tree before scuba gear, personally)

one experiment worth creating in my oppinion

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one experiment worth creating in my oppinion

And just how do you propose they create a Tsunami ???

You are also wrong about having to fight hordes of people to get to high ground, with early warning. Most people have little knowledge of Tsunamis. Even if they do, they choose to ignor warnings to evacuate the beach. Fighting the hordes will only come in the last few minutes before it hits.