Tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives


Built with a purpose: The SEAFDEC crew moving a tsunami buoy onboard the ship in the Andaman Sea. — AFP

Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again.

On Dec 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30m high.

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