Tsunami warning: Long Beach live-aboards wait for arrival

At Shoreline Marina in Long Beach, live-aboards emerged from their boats in advance of a local tsunami warning in the wake of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan.

Myron Terry, 39, an electrician from Cocoa Beach, Fla. staying on his friend's 30-foot sailboat Blue Moon while on vacation, heard news of the warning soon after waking up and was keeping a safe distance from the marina's waters, which remained calm as of 8:25 a.m.

"We're kind of waiting to see what happens," he said from a nearby parking lot, not far from the docked  cruise ship Carnival Paradise and the Queen Mary. "If that cruise ship still has its gangway attached I think we'll be all right."

-- Tony Barboza in Long Beach

 

Comments

[Joe]

I was going to take my yacht out to sea but decided why bother. If the tsunami is bad enough to cause major damage inside the marina, there won't be anyplace to dock the boat so it might as well sink.