an experience of life that changed me
radically and I believe that it can
change some of you at least maybe
Be the reason God had it all.
In 2004 I decided to take a
thailand a paradise is everyone knows
a really wonderful place is is a
was to spend a 10-day vacation at the
The island is called what and when I arrived
I went with my ex girlfriend when I
I arrived until the island was received
by the hotel owner who took us to the
when we got there in the
guesthouse she told me the room I
I had booked for us to stay here
ten days
this room was busy and that
We’d have to stay on the fourth floor.
that it was not a place I had
programmed
I did not understand at the time because it threatened
understand I did not agree and went to the
room that I stayed in on the fourth floor
The first day we spent the day at the beach.
taken on the beach is on the second day
we rented a car and strolled through
id meeting knowing the island of the south
of the anthem really sea place
transparent white sand or
What time is it on the third day?
we decided to rent a motorcycle because the
We had liked the second beach
from the beach closer to ours and we
it could be close could be more
easy to bike than we here
we spent the day at the beach sunbathing
walk at last the day of fun
with any of you already gone
behind
on the way back when we go back to the beach
from our hotel
I decided that I wanted to dive in
The day after my girlfriend does not
Wish she was sunburnt and
thought he did not want to spend the day
there
besides we had a promotion
to be able to stay
that bike one more day and meet the
island and even so I hit the foot and
I decided that I wanted to dive against
I like her that was to take a shower in the
hostel
I got the bike to listen to
challenge the motorcycle and buy the
to dive the next day, people
I would leave the hotel at eight in the morning and
spend the day diving into two islands
and would come back at the end of the day more
when I arrived at the hotel and at night
out a lot of people would dive brigou
I did not want to go that I was not
this was agreed and was against the
8 am the next day was the
combined they sought the people in the
hostel to be able to go to the pir to have a
dive training and after that
training to get on a boat
to take the tour when it was 8
Morning I sat at the door of the inn
to wait for them because at the time
are not understood and the eight of the
I feel a tremor of earth more
I had never lived that was not
nothing too strong was the same feeling
of having a heavy truck passing through
street and I felt that tremor
I did not understand what was happening.
a few minutes later it came from her
cars came too was you felt the
earthquake will not be that it was a
earthquake we are on the island may have
passed a heavy truck on the other street
can be anything else and not
importance that fact
we agreed as agreed five ten
minutes later take people back to
people had a dive training and
when it was nine thirty in the morning
place of truth because of Thailand’s
Where we were, we got into a
boat about maybe 15
people of different nationalities and
we headed towards it to dive
in a heavenly place a scorching sun
it’s in the wonderful scenery
when we arrived at the first island Oahu
person who was taking care of that
ride that was riding a boat
We’re looking at the very scrambled sea.
and you guys will not be able to dive marten
and you will not be able to dive here.
so we’re going to the second island to
my ex girlfriend at that moment me
I told you my sixth sense is
Telling not to see, I told you.
I should have come to us
had gone bad had i been
more interesting should have come and
so a few minutes
everyone has had or has a relationship
Do you know how this conversation works?
after that time, we were in
heading to the second he to dive
and on the way of the second island the pilot of the
boat in the neighborhood to steal and
asked that people wearing life jackets
that the captaincy of the ports
the Navy was coming to make a
oversight
we dress those collected and this
inspection did not happen
today I can understand and understand that
until the time it was all on the radio
talking to someone at all times in the
radio at that time we did not
had realized this had not
understood because what happened was that
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this inspection does not see people
stood on the high seas for some
minutes and he told us that he had
happened a problem and we
should return to the island from where
people had left because it was
My girlfriend told me I told you to
Do not come and miss the day.
We spent money and it was not only worth
there and I defend it as the
men husbands or boyfriends do
normally
I got the program started already
I spent because I missed the day.
going back to our father for our
our island and we do not
we know nothing they just looked
to me said
tomorrow you solve this will take time
Morning to solve, I did not understand well.
we went back to the pier
when we arrived at the ppi already had a
scene chaotic twisted motorcycle boats o
parking where you had bikes and cars
were twisted
is the structure of the pier no longer existed
more
and I as a layman did not know the
word giant wave tsunami
I understood what was happening in that
moment the only thing they said to
We were supposed to run the noise of
ambulance all the time a chaos imagine
a terrorist attack at that time and
we run for a block or two blocks
the group was close to those
neighborhood
when we get to the corner the guide goes
We even told you what happened.
giant wave
and we are waiting for other
giant waves the prudent for health
You are the people to the top of a
mountain to save your life
even and so we did in that
moment a car hit a
we got into the truck
behind the truck and we went up to the
mountain on top of this mountain already
there were a lot of people
people
the locals and tourists had lots of people
in that place is and from there we start
to have a notion of what was happening
because he had a boy who was with
the car sound is on
the owner of the restaurant who spoke English
well and was translating for me what
it was happening and we had
A little notion of what was
happening when the country has been
reached when people up to that
had been given with data such as
dead and so on and so we passed
some time
we were told shortly what caused
this wave that arrived on the island that was
at 9.55 in the morning
was a 9-point earthquake in the
richter scale that happened in sumatra
at 8 in the morning was exactly the
earthquake that I felt eight in the morning
but as it was still far from the epicenter
the earthquake is just slow to arrive
up to approximately one hour and 55
they told us at the top of the
mountain that had happened another
scale earthquake
and that this wave that would come
greater than the first had come
and that it would reach approximately
one o’clock p.m
It was midday we were sitting
in the middle of the bush looking out to sea
expecting to see a wave that we do not
knew the size or if after this wave
we are there and so we passed
an hour looking at the sea waiting for the
what was going to happen has not come
and so we spent the day sitting
in this place trying to understand what
It happened at 6 pm they said to
people who could not stay
animals that had no light and
They invited us to go to the center of the island.
where there was a structure for us there
and we got there to register the name of the
and took people to a shelter.
because it appeals to us that we were here was
patton limit was the hardest hit beach
and the city is removing the bodies
there is there we went to the first shelter
was full we went to the second obliges
which I found we went to the third shelter and
there we stayed in that shelter people
saw everything coming from the hospital
with open contractures because they do not
had had treatment stories
Horrifying I remember well and I stay
creepy in the story of d in that
moment a Swedish boy sat on my
side and told me is I tried to hold with
all my strength can not
hold what I was on the beach with
my wife and my 3 year old daughter
A wave came and I tried to hold the
with all my might and failed to
and so stories one after another
a story to another
we spent the night with wide eyes in the
sunday and not a minute
the next morning we got in touch
with the brazilian embassy that told us
to go to the city hall we went to the
prefecture should have approximately 5
thousand people in the city had a
organization had food had water
had phone had internet and we
we stayed there in that city hall trying
see what we were going to do because with
People had a $ 15 T-shirt.
and a packet of biscuit to spend the day
we pass the money that is
moment we tried to contact the embassy
in brazil that would have a level structure
of ambassador had not arrived
and so we wait to see
like me as we would solve
in that place there was a loud speaker where
he was announcing some transports
to the beaches and always announcing
some beaches the beach that people
was never announced patton limit
and I went to the place to ask for
that do not have transportation to the environment
Look at the papa beach it was the most
reached from the island they had
approximately 400 dead on the beach but
if you have prepared to see the worst
I can take you there I thought
Worse, I’m living here and
There is no document without money.
every month of a tragedy must leave
hence instinct for survival and he
took us there, saw everything
bodies destruction buildings on the ground
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on the first day as I started to
story they told me that my
room was not available which was
downstairs and that’s why I was in the
fourth floor
day to my room was that
Day then I was still in the room
floor of the hotel was with the door
closed
it lacked a lot of debris
came back and I was able to break a window
I went into the hotel and I was very
dark so I remember groping for
get your foot in things so you do not hit
in no way had bodies inside the hotel and
I managed to climb up to the fourth floor and
nor things not all but contribution of
money all he needed to
out of that nightmare
I picked up our stuff went to the
hotel and then we were able to enter the
airplane and 48 hours later leave this
bad dream
I wanted to give you a video.
to show a little of what happened
in that day
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in that day
approximately 300 thousand people died
of which 70 thousand 70 thousand people have never
They were not organized and then I 25
minutes before this wave that did everything
I left and came back 25 minutes later.
After that there is no day that I
Do not wake up to the question why I
not because I do not
and there you between 11 million
sperm was chosen battle
because we had that privilege
I was to be reborn in that moment and you
is chosen to live
You’ll spend your life waiting for some
You will spend your life waiting for a
motivation to take action
You will spend your life waiting to
to change the job they are doing
happy
does not make sense just waiting for
wait a wave, come finish everything
300 thousand people you have chance all
day can start over every day you go
study medicine and engineering because
your father wants and will leave his dream of
side
it makes no sense to life is one the
starting again is every day you will wait
what
thank you guys
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