HUNDREDS of stories of survival continue to filter back to Australia, with one Sydney man telling how he survived the Thailand tsunami waves by bodysurfing.
Paul Redfern, 39, of Sydney, now lives in Phuket and was on Bang Tao beach when the waves came.
Instead of running in terror, Mr Redfern bodysurfed the waves to safety.
"I saw the huge waves and I thought, 'just go with it, it's a wave, don't grab anything, just ride it'," Mr Redfern said.
"I think that's what saved me in the end, because I saw people who had tried to grab on to things all torn up."
Mr Redfern said he bodysurfed next to a floating roof, which had been torn off a gazebo in a nearby park, and stayed with the wave until he could get to his feet on the road. "I am incredibly lucky," he said. |