experience: i was out at sea when a tsunami struck /

Published at 2016-01-22 16:00:13

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I closed my eyes,clenched my teeth and in my intellect said goodbyeIn December 2004 I had just become a professional photographer and was working on a project approximately communities who live on the sea, known as sea nomads. I was living with members of the Chao-Ley tribe on a small island within the Tarutao National Marine Park in southern Thailand. I had a beach bungalow and spent a month getting to know the nomads. We didn’t share a language, and relied on sign and body language to communicate.
I went out to sea with them reg
ularly. The view was paradise. There was the bright blue sea,and dotted on the horizon were small islands that you could see clearly, even though they were 15km away.
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