spent 48hrs. there. place thoroughly blows. feel sorry for the schmucks stationed there.











why?

Hmmm I think it's a vague suggestion of a conspiracy theory ... I'll take a stab and hypothesize how the theory goes:

A) Diego Garcia is in the indian ocean
B) Diego Garcia seems to have survived the tsunami ok
C) Therefore the US gov't is behind the tsunami!
D) ???
E) Profit!!!

That's my guess although it's a little difficult to tell playing pictionary. Oh well ... I'll let ocean topography do the talking:

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Geography saved U.S. base from tsunami Diego Garcia located near deep-sea trench Tuesday, January 4, 2005 Posted: 1606 GMT (0006 HKT) HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Location and underwater topography helped protect the strategic U.S. military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia from the killer tsunami that raced across the Indian Ocean. Pacific Fleet officials in Honolulu said Navy facilities and operations on the tiny British-governed atoll were not affected by the December 26 earthquake or the tsunami it caused. Ships stationed at the base have been sent to Southeast Asia to help the relief effort. "Favorable ocean topography minimized the tsunami's impact on the atoll," the Navy said on its Web site for the base. An air and naval refueling station that is home to about 4,000 U.S. personnel and support staff, Diego Garcia is the only U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, with a deep, sheltered harbor to accommodate submarines and warships and a 2 1/4-mile long runway. During the 2003 Iraq war, B-2 stealth bombers flew missions from the base. The atoll is in the Chagos Archipelago west of the Chagos Trench, a 400-mile-long underwater canyon that runs north and south and plunges to depths of more than 15,000 feet in some areas. The trench is one of the deepest regions of the Indian Ocean. "The depth of the Chagos Trench and grade to the shores does not allow for tsunamis to build before passing the atoll," the Navy said. "The result of the earthquake was seen as a tidal surge estimated at 6 feet." A tsunami is a movement of water extending deep below the surface, and a sloping sea floor would force huge amounts of water upward toward a shore. In addition to the topography of the sea floor around the atoll, its location meant Diego Garcia wasn't in the direct path of the tsunami, said Gerard Fryer, a University of Hawaii geophysicist and an adviser to state civil defense. Diego Garcia is nearly 2,000 miles from the epicenter of the magnitude 9.0 quake that caused the tsunami. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii notified the U.S. Pacific Command soon after the quake, said a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/a...a.ap/index.html

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omg, why does it have to be a conspiracy theory about everything... this is the most stupid ever!

I certainly hope it did survive the tsunami if as suggested the americans have nuclear weapons stored there..be another nice fuckup if it got hit by the tsunami wouldnt it.

i seldom doubt Global Security's sources but i find it hard to believe that DG has nukes there. the kind of security they have is hardly comparable to "nuclear security"


...but ya never know.

as i said before : no comment

conspiracy or not , i don't care , i just wanted to show you the pics that's all , what matters now is helping the survivors of the tsunami.

Q5echo how was it there ?

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1. Collect underwear
2. ???
3. Profit!

As that animation that's floting about shows, the waves spread out 'sideways' from the vertical (as viewed on a map) Burma:Pacific plate boundary, thus the badly damaged areas are roughly on the same latitude (Somalia about the same as Thailand, Sri Lanka etc.). Diego Garcia is alot further South than these badly affected areas so by the time the tsunami had reflected and diffracted its way around the Indian Ocean to reach Diego it was pretty much a whimper compared to the real deal we've seen on the news.
But hey, it's still all America's fault, obviously

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Originally posted by BadBadNeil I'm trying hard to figure out what this is about, really I am.

Id say its photoshop..the island could look good again after that

First i heard of this....but hey its good to know we have something in the Indian Ocean

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