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Having been a major fan of wildlife documentaries for almost 16 yrs. now, I think that most of the information flowing out of (or about) the other side of the world as regards to the seas is just questionable. I am no expert what-so-ever about the ocean's, and yet I know that creatures that live at deep ocean depths would not even be recognizable, much less photographical, were they brought to sea level, due to pressure.
That said, there is bound to be dead sealife that hasn't been seen before that is going to be washed ashore because of the wave action. At any other time, that might be cool, but not now. This world, for better or worse, is populated by the creatures that have the largest and most complex brains. That means humans. We need to band together and forget skin color, religion, motives, etc. and do what needs to be done to help our fellow human beings in their time of need. The people in those devestated countries are scared to death to come down from high land because they're afraid "the sea" will swell up and swallow them. They are also (from what I've read) too supersticious to even eat the very fish that could sustain them because they might have been feeding on the flesh of the dead (not that I could blame them).
I was dumbfounded to read in "Time" that this is not only the most recent but not even the largest of the most recent natural disasters to happen. Iran lost hundreds of thousands of people only a few years ago, yet did we hear about it? Much less, did our government tell us or send that much aide over there? No. Gazillions of people have died in the last decade, I just don't understand why no one payed attention to the loss of life before the Asian Tsunami of recent times happened (including myself). We just don't know it's happening unless the press tells us....
I for one am sending what piddly amount I can (sorry Halx to defer what I would otherwise send to TFP!) to the Red Cross to contribute what little bit I can to help those oversea's.
Ali
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