‘Like nothing I’ve seen before or since’: Journalists reflect on 2004 Boxing Day tsunami | ITV News
The Boxing Day tsunami claimed the lives of 230,000 people when it struck in 2004.
Here, the ITV News team reflect on their experiences of reporting on the tragedy.
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R.I.P to all who lost their lives may god find them peace 😢
"Like nothing ive seen before or since"
😐 – Japan Tsunami 2011
A friend of mine was camping on the beach, and the day before the tsunami she decided to go up north otherwise she would have been dead.
A amazing piece of journalism. ITN at its best.Thank you. You found words to describe the Tsunami where most of us were left Speechless.
I will never forget this. I was about to give birth to my daughter and seeing all the families and victims just floored me. 😢
I was in Ireland with my dad and my sisters for Christmas in 2004 I remember waking up and turning on the tv in the morning on Boxing Day and I was alone in my aunts house and sky news had been left on from the night before and this disaster unfolded on tv in front of my eyes I was 20 then and had never seen or heard of anything like this I cried those images will stay with me forever.
RIP to all the people who died in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami we haven’t forgotten about you.
0:07 The logo says that's Channel 7 IN Australia. Also "Sri Lanka TV" is ITN. Independent Television Network.
Also, Boxing Day is more like a literal boxing fight to me.
This clip keeps mixing images Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka while talking about about only one of those countries. For example, it says Thailand and shows images from Sri lanka. Rubbish documentary.
I'll always remember that Black American radio host making a racist song mocking the people who lost their lives only for her own kind in Haiti to suffer their own earthquake a few years later which had her to posting on social media about supporting Haiti
Not a MSM fan these days but I have the utmost respect for the blonde reporter (who had a2 year old child at the time). Simple and honest (not robotic).
It's not a Tidal Wave ……..
I tell you what hasn’t changed, the importance of European lives over everyone else in the reporting of the media.
God bless our little friend lost but not forgotten for that smile and your cheek we all miss you 😘👍🇬🇧
It was so scary to watch when I was just 12.
I remember where I was when this happened. It's crazy it's already been 20 yrs.
I was there. It was a surreal experience that I will never forget
YES, A MAN-MADE DISASTER USING A NUCLEAR WEAPON WHICH EXPLODED CAUSING THIS MASSACRE!!!
IT WAS A DEPOPULATION RITUAL BY THE ELITE (ALL ROADS LEAD THERE…IS A CLUE!) USING THE US MILITARY!
NOTHING HAPPEN'S UNLESS IT IS MADE TO HAPPEN!
THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING "GEO-ENGINEERING" TO MANIPULATE THE WEATHER!
11:59
Similar scenes in Gaza 2024.😢
😢 From 🇱🇰 tragic day
I was on nightshift in UK and saw a breaking news alert for this and immediately phoned my friend who was a diving instructor in Krabi, Thailand.
I got through and he told me he was on the beach with his students when the tsunami came and fortunately there was a hill behind him and they managed to escape the wave. The dive captain was bringing the boat in at the time and had no choice but to turn the boat into the waves and somehow managed to survive.
My friend tod me that the evening before they were in the bar with his students and they had decided to have a few more drinks and go diving an hour later the next day. If they did not make that decision they would have been in the water and would surely have perished.
Many of his students had family there who weren't so lucky and lost their lives along with countless others. May God bless their souls. RIP
I was in ko-samui, I didn't phone home for a good while just so everyone appreciated me more when I returned . They just knew I was in Thailand . We had flown to Bangkok and more or less spun a coin between Samui or Phuket . We chose the right island thank goodness ..
Very respectfully presented.🙏🙏
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
And just like that, theyve memory holed the terrorism that took place in covent garden yesterday.
My two brothers had just got back from travelling there earlier that December. They came home for Christmas.
I remember being so horrified at the thought of them being there and never seeing them again.
Still gives me chills 20 years on.
Rest in peace to all those thousands that didnt make it.
A truly surreal natural disaster.
Rest in peace to all those that perished in the Boxing Day tsunami
Great piece about a terrible day. It’s on days like this that one has to question if there’s a God. And if there is what did these innocent children do to deserve this.
I didnt know what a Tsunami was until this event
This is amazingly put together! Thoughts to all those who's lives were effected that day
RIP to those who died on that day.
❤❤
Spoiler: this is a narcissistic journalist report where they put themselves at the centre of the story.
Unfortunately, the only good that came from this is learning the characterics of a tsunami, the receding water and potential tsunami risks whenever there is a an earthquake. It is a tragedy that nobody really knew or was warned what was coming.
It just seems like yesterday seeing this on the news. It must have been so frightening.
Such an awful moment. Remember it so well 2004 🎄😢
I had just turned ten a few days before Christmas. I remember seeing the news on boxing day with my mum. I had never even heard of a tsunami until that day. But I've never forgotten the devastation shown that day.