I visited the mentioned tsunami site while stationed in Alaska. My station on Kodiak Island had an archived tape of boats describing the wave from the big Anchorage quake. You can survive one of these, with luck. I believe that same program interviewed a surfer who rode one out. Handling a large wave regardless of vessel size is pretty STRAIGHTFORWARD, bow into the wave and hopefully ride it up and over. The Coast Guard conducts a MLB school on the Columbia River for the West Coast surfmen ( lifeboat coxswains who work the N.W. bar phenomenon.) There is nothing like doing a 360 in a 44' I did it twice. A visiting naval sub commander stopped his interservice boasting when we gave him a 'mild' lesson in our ancient 36' boats glory hole <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />