>> you are a mile from hundreds of men, women and children, and you're in a position to potentially help them and you can't get there. >> i panicked because i had pitch knock lars. i used my binoculars to look at the beach. there is no buildings left, no hotels. there was a part of me that really didn't have any questions that jay and khali had to be dead. >> i starred to cry and i went back to being a doctor. you put your stethoscope on and you go on. >> the dive instructors were gone about two hours, and so we couldn't wait for them to get back. and when they did, both of us got on and got out there as quickly as we could.

and as we pulled up, i remember maybe 12 feet away from us, there was a body that must have been floating for quite a while that ended up getting washed on the beach. and i ended up taking the other first-time diver and just kind of shielded her and ran the other way, assuming that maybe we won't see another one, but of course we saw many more than that. >> there were dead bodies everywhere. and arms and legs and served -- it was like -- it was a killing field. >> my dad hands me the bag of our belongings and passports and everything and said run. and i just started running, and

there was foundations left, and holes blown through the walls of those that were still standing. i turned around at one point and looked for sally and i was not about to stop. and i just kept going. and i got to the village, and there was a man who was pointing up the street into the mountains, and i was just following this road that went up into the trees and into the jungle. >> we went to the hotel to look for jay and khali. and the one where our bungalow was was just a flat, concrete pad basically. >> when we stood on the concrete slab, one of the things we saw were jay's black jeans hanging from a piece of rebar, and khali's bathing suit top hanging from another piece of rebar.

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welcome back, it was the very peak of thailand's holiday season, the deafening roof of those tsunami waves were gone. but in its place now were cries

for help. some came from the injured, many just clinging to life. others came from friends and family torned from their loved ones, and the sense of family remained all too real, with the coastline leveled and so many people in need of help, who was left to save them? when we return to our story "swept away." >> kaitlin and john are gone. i have no idea where they went. at that point in time, my forearms and my knees and my legs go numb, completely numb. and i remember kaitlin asking me, let's go find mom. i said, they're fine, let's just

rest here. >> i think after about an hour and a half, the feeling started to come back. so we started to making our way up the hill. >> my mom heard him first, but it was my dad screaming vivian, vivian. and we ran over and sort of, probably the greatest sense of relief. >> when you started to start thinking about provisions, water, shelter. that was roughly three to four hours after the first wave. i remember walking down and seeing like a trail of blood where somebody had been dragged. i knew then that this was a huge tragedy. >> i had no strength left at that point. so then it was just a waiting game of how can i get help, because my contacts had been washed away, i couldn't see very

well. and every few minutes i would call out for help and call out for a doctor. i would probably lay there for about an hour or so, until a couple of people came down from a hill and they found a sail in like a sailboat that had ripped apart. and they put me in that and sort of dragged me up the hill where there was a hotel. i was laid on a hotel bed. and i could hear people arguing amongst each other about how to help, and a lot of that was based on what they had even on er. do you make a southetourniquet make a tourniquet. some of that conversation was incredibly scary. >> much of that first day was

spent looking, following the debris trail, if our stuff from the bungalow went here, you know, i'm certain, a body would have been carried right there too. finally we end up at the root and the high water mark and hadn't found the kids. just all this stuff. and then we went to the buddhist temple. >> all the temples are morgues at this point. >> and the monks were praying and chanting and burning incense for the dead. so there were probably 25 or 30 bodies that first night. then you would go through and you would just pull the cloth off of the face. and look at the face and if it's not your daughter or son, you move to the next one, and then to the next one, and then to the nec one.

. >> it could have been 15 minutes, it could have been an hour and a half. but a scuba diving boat came in, and that's where we got some sips of water, was able to lay amanda down. the biggest fear that i had was that ammanda was going to be paralyzed. the amount of pain she was in, you knew it wasn't going to be good. and then a huge fishing vessel came in and they decided it was going to be a makeshift hospital. and a medical student and he was the first one that said, mandy can move her toes, she eat not paralyzed. >> the medics were trying to

figure out ways to cat gore's people, so i was categorized as sort of a leg injury. and you stack that against someone with head trauma or spinal injury and leg injury really isn't that serious. >> laura i had heard was at the evacuation zone, so i knew exactly where to go so i could check in on her. when i saw laura for the first time, she said i broke my leg. >> it was this huge wave of relief, both to know that he was safe, that he was uninjured and now i had somebody to be with me during that time. >> i see probably 80 to 100 injured men, women, children that were on anything that could have been turned into a stretcher. the doctors walk around, prioritizing them, to put them in the right order to get on the helicopter. at one point in the night, we

said that bed sheet that's wrapped afternoon your leg has been on there for quite some time and i looked at it, realized what she was describing is not what her leg looked like. it must have been about three-quarters of her muscle on her lower part of her leg ripped off of her bone, you could see the bones and the muscles and the tendons. four men were looking down and just looked at each other and said, oh, boy. >> coming up, the race to save them all, laura -- >> you need to get her off of here. >> amanda. >> they had no medication, they couldn't help us. >> petra. >> i saw a thai man walking towards me, i didn't know whether i would see him again. >> could that stranger be her savior? when "dateline extra" continues. .

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they weren't out of danger yet. neither were those still strachbded and desperate for rescue. and as the stay wore on, the situation grew more dire by the minute. here's more of our story, swept away. >> at the beginning, the water was 30 feet high. and towards the end, it started to decrease. so i went from being vertical, to being horizontal and now lying down on the the mud. we're in thailand, it's very, very hot. and the sun is burning into my skin, my cuts.

at that point, holding on to a palm tree for eight hours, i didn't think anybody would be able to find me because i'm in isolation. i'm in lots of pain and i saw a thai man walking towards me. i was in shock and happy, surprised. seeing him, and it got really funny because as i'm butt naked, he had shorts on him. so he took the shorts to be able to cover me and keep me decent. and that's really the last thing i was thinking about right now, but thank you he tried to communicate with me that he's going to give me piggy back. i said it's okay, if you can, bring more help, but you cannot give me a piggy back because it's unbearable pain. but i didn't know if i would see him again, i didn't know if he

was going to come back with help. i had very strong hope that simon will be found. because he was stronger, he was a great swimmer. i didn't even think that there was a chance that he won't make it. a little later, i see the thai man returning, with at least six other men, they were able to lift me, which was extremely painful, so i was screaming aa lot. and i can remember looking into the ocean and the sunset was in big, red, bloody sunset. and i was very grateful, as i am going into hospital and not be there during the night because that would be a lot worse.

>> around about 8:00 that night, i remember them saying, we're going to head back to shore. it's about a two-hour journey back to the main island. and amanda and i were the first people taken off. and i remember getting to the hospital and there were just photographers everywhere. like the famous people in hollywood, ike flash, flash, flash. i just remember grabbing -- i was bleeding so much from my ear down to my face. he said i'm going to sew your ear back on. that's when i realized i had broken my clavicle.

i went up to the pediatric ward. and she was lying there just whimpering, and i found out that they had no medication, they were all out. they were doing an amazing job to try and look after people. but they couldn't help her. and i was thinking, okay, how are we going to get out of this? >> i literally didn't think i was as hurt as i was. >> and other patients were being prioritized because we frankly misclassified the injuries that laura had suffered.

>> there was a lot of coughing and we knew we were running out of helicopter spots and we pointed at the leg and told them about the bleeding, but they had 50 other patients or 30, maybe, left. i was afraid she would die if she didn't get to the hospital. >> i was in the evacuation zone waiting for about nine hours before i was flown off. >> war movies is probably the only thing i could compare it to. when the soldiers make it out of the war zone, this is what it felt like, and there was a naive belief that she was now fine, not fully understanding, i think, the battle that was ahead of her. >> petra, laura and amanda had been rescued. all were far from safe, they

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welcome back to "dateline extra." a tropical island had been flattened by the deadly er llie tsunami in history. there was hope that the worst might soon be over. but for those who left behind, like the furmidge family or the bryce family, any optism was mixed with fear with what the night might bring. now returning to our story, here is "swept away." >> when the darkness came, it was scary. we attempted to sleep, there were a lot of little animals that we couldn't see, but we could hear. >> it's the tropics, there's snakes. >> whenever there would be a

rustling, everyone would scream and stand up. >> this one thai woman would come over with this plate of fried rice, she was like, please, please, eat some rice. it was like her entire life was taken away in a minute and she was trying to feed us. >> it was a long, long night. and i remember thinking, we can't go through another night like this. >> when the sun started to rise, we realized we wanted to try to get the girls off the island. >> we could hear what we thought were helicopters. and at that point we decided, i think it's safe to go down. >> everyone was just making their way to the ferry. and it was very quiet and somber. almost like this march to the pier. and ii. >> and i noticed one side of the

dock was where people were going to the main land and back, and there was a boat with only black body bags on there and you looked at that and you realize there was the same amount of people on the ferry as body bags. >> you saw the signs and you started running when you could have. but that's a lie. it was plain dumb luck. >> this is the 27th now, we're right back into it again. because we're not giving up until we find for sure that they're dead or hurt somewhere. we just expanded our search grid. we found achante's back of clothes and again more and more of jay and khali's stuff. it was all over the place. >> they wheeled me right into

the hospital. and i could see that there was somebody next to me who had a terrible shoulder wound and i could see expose bone and they were putting antiseptic right on it and he was screaming. and then i woke up in a hospital bed. i can remember seeing cats running by, i mean it was not -- it was not set up for this at all. but there was this wonderful french woman, claire, she was sort of keeping tabs on me and she had a cell phone and asked me if i wanted to call anybody. so i called my parents, who were obvious obvious obvious

obviously frantically worried. >> claire said i'm just going to talk to your parents for a minute and she took the phone away from me and walked away and i found out later, you need to come, you need to come now, she's in a lot of danger, you need to get her out. >> your wife is lying there, most likely with internal bleeding, in a hospital with no medication and no way of helping you. finally i think about two, 2 1/2 days it took before we were medically evacuated up to bangkok and the first thing they did was give mandy morphine and it was 2 1/2 days and she was finally out of pain. we ended up finding out from marcus that, he found all of his family alive, all in different hospitals, so it was just an absolute miracle. >> when i am in the hospital in khao lak, i didn't know that at that very time, my friends and family are looking for me. and sent, actually, a helicopter

to get me from khao lak to a hospital where they had better facilities and they confirmed that my pelvis was broken in four places, they confirmed internal bleeding, my stomach was full of things that are not supposed to be in the stomach, it was a combination of mud, debris, and several other things. it was so unbearable, that even the morphine didn't work after a while. after three weeks being in the hospital, i get organized with transportation to czech republic to another hospital where i could be closer to my parents. >> on wednesday, december 29, i was medevaced to an international hospital in bangkok, and the doctors assessed me and diagnosed me

with septicemia, which is a very fast acting blood poisoning and pneumonia, in addition to the leg wounds that i had. my mom came and i remember she arrived in the middle of the night, visiting hours were over, but nothing stops my mom. she barged into icu at around 2:00 a.m. and it was so good to see her. and it doesn't matter how old you are, when you're in pain, there's nothing better than having your mom there. >> stefan and a lot of others looked for the others who were staying in the bungalow. but unfortunately, he didn't make it. and there's no way to understand why some people made it and come people didn't. >> we got a ride into khao lak and we went to the dive shop, and they had started putting up lists of survivors and lists of

people who were being looked for. and we were searching the list for khali and jay. >> i was standing on the missing side of the board, looking at that list. >> and you know, just name after name after name after name. and you think, it's not going to be there. and at the very bottom, right hand corner of that list was jay's name. i found it. >> he went oh, my god, oh, my god. oh, my god, he's allivalive, he alive. >> coming up, alive but where? >> they were trying to stop me. and nobody's going to stop me from looking for my children. >> could they find jay? could they find khali? when "dateline extra" continues.

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>> welcome back. the bryce family's relentless search had paid off. 16-year-old jay bryce was alive, or at least his name was found on a list of survivors. and where was he now? and what about his little sister khali. their dad come upon an unmistakable blclue that would force the family apart once again. >> when we saw his name on the list, we immediately began to go start searching for him. we went to the hospital. you just had to walk down the halls trying to find him. there's no system of intakes, as far as a hospital would tell you which room a patient is in. >> the next hospital was the

hospital in phuket. >> stu went up to the desk and they asked for the information and they looked and they couldn't find any records and he said, well, i'm going to look through the hospital for him. >> they tried to stop me and they're not going to stop me from looking for my children, i mean it's not happening. suddenly it struck me, i'm an er doc and all these people that got hurt were hurt with blunt trauma. every one of them got x rays, i'm sure. so i went to the x ray department and asked the radiology tech if he had any x ray films on jay bryce. he comes out with this folder the the bangkok phuket hospital and i pulled out the chest x ray and looked at it and lo and behold, there is the hardware in

his neck from his surgery from the car accident. and this was really the first time that i had certainty that my son was, not only alive, but probably going to be okay. >> he went to the embassy, they said they had found my brother. he had been medevaced to bangkok. my dad decided that it would be worthwhile to send sally up there so that somebody is with my brother but that somebody should keep looking for my sister. my dad and i headed back to khao lak. we started finding our belongings, sweatsuits, bras, jeans, shorts, and then kind of follow that path. you can smell that, you know, a rotting body has that distinct

smell. i remember we were sitting there and my dad said, jay's never going to forgive me. we should have listened to jay, we should have gone. the next morning we got up and started the process of going from the resort and walking through that during the daytime when we could see, and when it got too dark, we would move to the three temples that they were using as makeshift morgues. you could try and look for something that was some sort of see resembling thing that it could be your loved one's body. and you remember it as something that's some sort of a dream. something that's not real. i don't think it would have been physically possible to look at all the those bodies and all those pictures without being able to separate it and say,

instead of thinking -- sorry. >> it was an awful task and i wanted to see jay and achante wanted to see jay. and we got to jay's room right before mid night on new year's e eve. and then area got a hug and woke up and, oh, what a relief. there's no words for it. i was so sure he was gone. >> i remember jay's eyes welling up with tears and just them spilling down his face and him just saying i thought you were all dead. i just thought you were all dead. >> i thought that my life with them was over. no more memories. no more help.

on the morning of december 26, i remember waking up to my younger sister screaming at me, jay, jay, you've got to come see this, you've got to come see this. it was actually a 40-foot tsunami wave coming right for us. i just screamed, we have got to get the hell out of here, and we looked at each other and i just ran for the door behind me. and that was the last time i saw her because i was just under water instantly. i was just beings to tossed aro like a rag doll. i was just worried about my neck. after the surgery, if i would have got on hit the wrong way, i would have been paralyzed. i swirled around in the water

until i hit what was like puddles. i didn't see khali anywhere. i was thinking my family was scuba diving, obviously, and there's no way they would survivor if they were on a boat. and i was like, i'm 16, with a broken neck, an 8-inch gash in my knee, i have no passport, no money and i'm an orphan. i just realized that those dreams i had, that thing i was really worried about happening, that i had freaked out and told me dad, we cannot go on this trip, that the dreams were actually about this event, they were warnings. >> after i get reunited with the rest of my family, they went back to the beach where they were staying to look for khali, hoping to find her alive. >> i don't think we would have been able to leave thailand

without knowing that she was dead or alive. they had brought the freezing container so they could stop the decomposition on the bodies. they had all the pictures of them. and if you could find the picture, they would pull out the body. i started on one end, my dad started on the other. and i just happened to find her. >> she pulls a photograph off of the board. this is khali. >> it was definitely her, she was wearing a shirt she had bought in town on the 25th of december. >> i felt incredibly sad because now it's really true and any fantasy that i had that maybe we would find her or she would show up or something, those were gone.

i really, seriously wanted to have something good to remember this trip about, not just loss and death. i felt so bonded with sal after an experience like that, that we shared, and i couldn't imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else. so we began talking about getting married. >> and i thought about it for about three seconds and i said yes, i accept your proposal. it was a buddhist ceremony. and it matched the culture that we had just been so deeply ingrained in through this tragedy.

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welcome back. petra nimcova. will robbins, the bryce families, their stories were fill with the heart ache, loved ones were lost and those who survived would never be the same. but the tragic events of that day would change their lives in surprising ways. here's the final chapter of our story "swept away."

>> i had a very strong hope that simon will be found. >> i thought maybe he got hit by something and he lost memory. maybe he just doesn't remember his name, connect the dots. so that was what i was thinking. and then the news came. it was, i think, about three months after i got the phone call that simon's body was found. and that it's going to be coming to england and we will do a funeral for him. we didn't mourn his life, we celebrated his life and the beauty is his family became my family, he best friends became my best friends and he passed me an incredible gift. >> my dream changed dramatically after the tsunami.

i broke my clavicle, i severely damaged my c-1 right in the back of my neck, it got crammed right into the back of my head. i got severe nerve damage to my right arm. when i was playing, i had gone back to trying to play professionally, i was in pain every single day, every day i tried to hit a golf ball. to me it became more fun to be out there coaching people than to shoot a low score and win a tournament. so i decided to do that and had these amazing results. every anniversary of the tsunami, i call marcus and we talk, and i just say to him, you saved my life, thank you. you're my hero. and he's always, oh, come on. i know, i know. he's very humble. but that day he was our savior and we were so blessed that he

was there to save us and pull us to shore. >> i don't believe in clai clairvoyant i, but the fact that i knew what it was, and the fact that i took a deep breath, i do believe it saved my live. my surgeon told me that i probably wouldn't walk normally again, my days of high heels were over because i had nerve damage in my leg. you know what? he was wrong. i walk just fine, i wear high heels all the time. and i lead a very, very normal life. i am married, i have two small children. my daughter's name is catherine claire, after claire who helped me in the hospital a.

>> the random thing is that i didn't get anywhere where i got injured. and i don't understand how that happened. i decided two years later to go back, partly to do some processing and healing, and i had a real urge to help out, to the extent that you can. i found that same dave shop that had been rebuilt and was under new management. and i said i would like to finish my certification. and i did that. i just needed that to find closure. >> i think on the anniversary, there are very few people who still remember, there are fewer people who understand what it was like, but on every anniversary we talk about the tsunami. and every year it gets a little bit easier. it feels to us, that day still as meaningful as the day it happened. >> there they are. >> now we're in san francisco. and we're getting off the plane and i remember seeing vivian's mom there.

and the girls, and vivian sprinting towards her. i think we had what would be called survivor guilt. why were we spared and more importantly, what are we going to do about it? >> it was a motivating factor to go back and row pay the kindness that those people showed me and my sister when we didn't have anyone. and we wanted to repay that in any way we could. >> we were able to do fundraising at home, and get it to the people in need there. >> we bought a washing machine for a mom who had a husband and two children and she was able to start a washing center. and she was able to give -- >> thailand will always have a special place in our heart. >> i couldn't be at home.

i couldn't be at school. i needed to do something. and i felt like i had left the ties with this mess that we were all part of. and i felt like i needed to go back and help clean up this mess. in may of 2005, i bought a ticket to thailand and went back. we did everything from beach cleanup to rebuilding boats and houses and helping people get back on their feet with their source of income. so for me to go back there and help with that was really important. >> when we got home, i still had dreams that would come true. but since then i have just shut that aspect of myself off. ♪ it's going to be a new day tomorrow ♪ >> i kept writing and writing and using this trauma of what i

had been through as inspiration for songs. some of my greatest songs and lyric lyric lyrical creations come from this experience and losing my sister. i was able to use that time in my life to propel me forward to realize my dreams and i think that is an amazing idea. >> today i am still continuing my fashion work as a model. my second hat, which i wear, and it's a new hat since the tsunami, it's a hat of being a founder of happy hearts fund. it's a charity that was born after the tsunami.

it's focusing on rebuilding schools, disaster proof schools for children who are impacted by natural disasters. and the first goes to build one school in thailand. and then fast forward to today, we have rebuilt 108 schools. together with the new happy hearts fund, we'll be able to build many more safe schools. smile! >> when we got on the plane to fly home, there was a joy, there was a real joy to be leaving, but at the same time there was a feeling that you were leaving part of your soul behind. that you kind of felt like maybe you should stay. because so many people did stay.

so -- but there was definitely that feeling, you know, i'm happy to be going home, but, you know, part of me will always be there, and amanda will always be in thailand because of that day. >> there was so much loss that day and since then, however slow and painful, there's been healing. meanwhile, the response from around the world was unprecedented. $14 billion was raised in reported time to help the victims in every country affected by the disaster. it was a horrific natural disaster, one that offered an important lesson, thousands may have been saved if thailand had been had a warn system.

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