Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...

Daniel Poole had been on a surfing trip to Sri Lanka when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra triggered the tsunami, which claimed the lives of more ...

Daniel Poole, from Perranporth in Cornwall, had been on a surfing trip to Sri Lanka when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered the tsunami, which claimed the lives of more ...

Daniel Poole was on a surfing trip to Sri Lanka when the waves crashed into the “idyllic” guesthouse he was sharing with his now wife. Mr Poole, now aged 44, said: “I leapt out of bed to the ...

We watched as all that was once a dense jungle became the sea Daniel Poole “It wouldn’t stop,” added Mr Poole, who lives in Perranporth in Cornwall. “My wife can’t swim, so I spun around ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by “screaming and shouting” – two decades on from one of the deadliest disasters ever recorded. Daniel Poole ...