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Photos recovered from Canadian couple who died in tsunami show wave rushing toward them
By: Associated Press | ∞
VANCOUVER -- Photographs from the camera of a Canadian couple killed in Asia's tsunami include their final shots of a huge wave as it rushed toward them at their beach resort in Thailand.
John and Jackie Knill of North Vancouver, frequent visitors to the popular Thai resort, Khao Lak, were apparently on the beach when the tsunami hit Dec. 26.
The couple disappeared and relatives say they were notified about a week ago that the identities of their remains had been confirmed.
Searchers later also recovered the couple's destroyed digital camera but were able to print photos from its memory card.
A shot taken at 8:20 a.m. shows everything on the beach appears to be normal.
Six minutes later, curious onlookers are shown wandering onto suddenly exposed tidal flats, a sign of the impending tsunami. A large wave appears to be breaking in the distance.
Two minutes after that, some spectators appear to realize this is no ordinary wave.
"I don't know why they didn't run," their son Christian Knill told Global TV in Vancouver. "Either they knew they couldn't or they didn't know the power of the wave."
A pair of photos taken at 8:30 a.m. shows a wall of water churning up sand and mud. A final shot a couple of minutes later shows the tsunami hitting the beach.
In all, 12 Canadians were confirmed killed by the tsunami, most of them in Thailand, and 13 people remained unaccounted for as of last week.
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