The tsunami or "harbor wave" that was generated by the December
26th earthquake in the Indian Ocean moved outward from the quake's epicenter
at roughly 500 miles per hour. Only when the waves left the deep water
and started climbing up the land shelf did the giant wave (actually a
series of five waves coming one after another) slow down.
In doing so, the waves scoured the entire seabed beneath them, and
brought up marine creatures from well over a mile deep, leaving them
behind as the waves receded. Scientists know more about the surface of the
moon than they do about life at these depths.
The attached 24 pictures, photographed at seaside in Phuket,
Thailand, show just some of the strange and wondrous undersea life forms
previously unknown) that were kept and preserved after the tsunami left.
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