Dana Harbor current from tsunami

[Sailfish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gw54iSiRH8 link with Dana point harbor

I was looking at my kayak fishing page and stumbled on this I know it's over a week old. I was just wondering if any one from our community saw any of this in so Cal after the earthquake.

PHIL

[mikehodge]

Phil

I trailer my and put it in the Oceanside Harbor Thursday Night on march 10th. Friday I when I arrived at the guest docks at 8:30 AM a crowd was gathered on the jetties and the Oceanside Police and Harbor Patrol were driving up and down the harbor roads warning of a 3 foot tsunami. I saw the news earlier and decided to get my ready. I heard of surges on ch 16 in Long Beach and lower Orange County. All the big charter fishing boats and some smaller comercial fishing boats and a few private boats left the harbor. Then about 9:15 AM someone on the shore cried out that the water just dropped two feet in the last five minutes. The water was rushing out, I decided I just spent too much on my new so I made a quick exit out the harbor. The current was not quite as fast as in the Dana Point video but when I got to the exit of the harbor all the water exiting was met with 6 foot waves, they were not breaking but they sure built up tall with all that water going out. I motored though and stayed about a half mile offshore. Coming back in an hour later I found the surge still occuring. It was coming in and I had a similar experience as that yellow yacht and had to manuver and wait for the surge to subside before I could dock. It turned out that an occilation started, with water coming in and going out that lasted for three days. It took 40 min to lower and then rise 3.5 feet. By Sunday it was about a foot or so. The Coast Guard was warning of a 250 yard spinning gyre of water at the harbor entrance for two days. Oceanside was not as bad as Dana Point and no damaging wave like the one that hit Santa Cruz but it made for an interesting weeked.

Mike

[dennisneal]

I've sailed from Dana Point harbor many times. Normally the waters inside the harbor are very calm. I've never seen them boiling as they were doing in the video.

What I find most surprising is the number of people who climbed out onto the breakwater to, (I assume), get a better view of the Tsunami waves. How foolish! One man in the Northern California city of Crescent City was swept out to sea and drowned because he went out onto a jetty in order to take photos of the onrushing Tsunami waves!

I'm also surprised that the Harbor Patrol did not close the harbor.

[Theo]

Check out this guy's entry for the Darwin awards. Yikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilcfGVvQztM

Theo

[Sailfish]

Wow that looks pretty scary over there at Cat Harbor Thanks for the replies and postings. I think this shows how dangerous things can get in the water. I really need to get out and enjoy my boat this year life is too short.

Phil happy sailing