This was on tonight from 7pm for 2 hours, did anyone else watch it? I was just glued to it, it was very well written and presented, and seeing the tsunamis hitting and the effects really does make it hit home. The tsunamis then were massive compared to the ones last month, and the new Child of Krakatoa is growing at 15 foot per year, now as big as the original.

I so pray that technology today will give sufficient warning to prevent another major disaster and save lives, because there is for sure another on the way - and it could be anytime.

Damn - I meant to set the video for this! :ranting:

I do hope they repeat it .........

I'm sure they will ILS, and if I see it mentioned I will tell you. It was too good to be a once only showing - sorry you missed it this time round though!

I'm sure they will ILS, and if I see it mentioned I will tell you. It was too good to be a once only showing - sorry you missed it this time round though!
Thanks Eternity - I would appreciate that! :)

It was absolutely superb wasnt it? A mixture of bang up to date documentary and interesting film and a mini film set in Victorian times. Fantastic special effects which, as you point out Eternity, really hit home all the harder with the recent tsunami disaster.

Son of Krakatoa is indeed growing at 15ft a year, scarily. Unbelieveably when the original Krakatoa self destructed, the shock wave went around the world SEVEN times. It was the loudest explosion ever to be heard on the planet since records began and the volcanic fall out effected the weather and sunsets all over the world for five years.

Nature can be awesome and awful cant it? :unsure:

I watched this as well, it was fascinating.

I was in Bali about 8 years ago, and there is an active volcano there. We went right into the crater, it was awesome but scarey at the same time as it's still smoking. Below it you could make out the remains of villages that had been wiped out, and the place was full of lava rock. I bought a small piece home, and it's amazing how heavy and dense it is.

Most of Indonesia is built on volcanoes, it is spectacularly beautiful, but earthquakes and small eruptions are the danger they live with every day.

I recorded it and watched it later. I got a bit bored with the dramatisation and was fast forwarding to the hard facts, but when they did emerge they were fascinating if scary.

As Pandora mentioned, it was the loudest sound ever heard and was heard as far away as Perth. Would that not mean that anyone who survived within hearing distance would have been stone deaf afterwards?

The death toll although appalling wasn't as high as the recent tsunami, and I thought they were going to say that was because the area was less densely populated than it is now. Apparently the wave was some forty meters high, taller than the latest one, but lost power as it travelled inland because it was generated in a different way. Was the tsunami created purely because of the lava flow into the ocean stirring up the water? I think I must have missed a bit there.

LOL ILS, you keep forgetting to set your video to watch things. Yahoo and other sites have TV listings - bookmark one and have a browse through so you don't miss good progs.

The explosion was recorded as being heard 2,000 miles away Nox. What about the ship that was found inland 600 ft (or meters?) above sea level, fully intact but 28 crew dead.

That area was less populated then, it was over 100 years ago, but the tsunami did hit the Australian coastline. However, having said that, records of population were probably a lot more scant back then too.

It was the imploding of Krakatoa that caused the tsunami.

LOL ILS, you keep forgetting to set your video to watch things

It's old age setting in, I think :blink: :laugh: