– Are you aware of the recent tsunami warning?
We had just tied our lines to the quay in the recently constructed harbour at Foamullah island in the Maldives. Two young locals on a moped stopped and told us that there had been a giant under water earth quake, 8.7 on the Richter scale, in Indonesia, near the location of the disastrous Boxing Day tsunami 2004. The government had issued a Tsunami Warning.
Malla and I looked at each other in disbelief. Pirates, political riots, tsunamis. What is next?
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