EXTREMELY ROUGH TRANSLATION PART 4 (FINAL)

6:68~7:33

[NARRATOR] An instant before the car sinks, Mr. Muroga fled from the vehicle, barely escaping with his life. We took this opportunity to have him watch the images and give us his thoughts.

[MR. MUROGA] Ah, right at this point. I saw the cars being swept along and thought “It’s a tsunami!”

[NARRATOR] From the left-side of the screen, cars flow past and Mr. Muroga realizes the danger.

[MR. MUROGA] The camera doesn’t capture it, but I could see in the rearview mirror that an even faster tsunami had already arrived behind me.

7:33~8:16

[NARRATOR] These are pictures Mr. Muroga took with his own camera. This picture looking out the back of the car allows us to understand the ferocity with which the tsunami behind him arrived.

[MR. MUROGA] At this time, the cars were crashing into each other with great force and my car began to be battered out of shape.

[NARRATOR] Surrounded by waves, Mr. Muroga decided it was too dangerous to try to leave his vehicle.

[MR. MUROGA] I thought about things like, “Maybe I’ll be able to escape when the water recedes.”

[NARRATOR] However, instead of receding, the water began to churn with even greater intensity.

8:16~8:55

{MR. MUROGA} At this point, the car began to be swept away. I was carried away by the current.

[NARRATOR] The tsunami flowed from the ocean between the buildings, capturing Mr. Muroga’s car like a pincer. Within only 30 seconds his car was completely afloat and slowly drifted along. But after that his car entered the faster part of the current and was dragged along by the tsunami.

8:55~9:20

[NARRATOR] This is the point at which Mr. Muroga, being swept along by the tsunami, escaped from his vehicle.

[MR. MUROGA’S VOICE ON VIDEO] Okay, now!

[MR. MUROGA] I think I jumped from the vehicle at this point. Because water suddenly began pouring inside.

[NARRATOR] Just moments before the car sinks, Mr. Muroga makes his escape through the window he had opened earlier.

9:20~9:55

[NARRATOR] Mr. Muroga’s car was swept approximately 150 meters into the wall of a warehouse before sinking. Mr. Muroga, while being swept along by the current, managed to swim to a nearby building and pull himself from the water. He visits the scene of the accident for the first time since the incident. As he approaches the area where the current was strongest, he notices something.

[MR. MUROGA] Ah, look over there, by the divider. Right there, the curb has been practically erased. Clearly the tsunami did that, no?

9:55~11:16

[NARRATOR] Even now, three months later, the evidence of the tsunami remains. What can we learn from these images? We requested Dr. Imura, a tsunami specialist to analyze them. The first thing he noticed was how quickly the water level rose.

[DR. IMURA] At this point it’s already over 50 centimeters deep and the cars are starting to float. Once that happens, the car is beyond control. The tanker truck has larger [in diameter] tires and isn’t floating yet. And then after the height reaches 1 meter, even trucks begin to float away.

[NARRATOR] Dr. Imura points out that once the water level rises above the height of the tires, the vehicle will begin to float and in a very short time be beyond driver control.

[DR. IMURA] Almost as soon as the tsunami appears before your eyes, your vehicle will begin to float. At that point you should monitor the situation and if the current doesn’t seem too strong and if there isn’t a lot of dangerous debris nearby, you should break your window and leave the vehicle as quickly as possible. Once outside, you should head for the highest area you can find, such as a fence or telephone pole—whatever is available. Grab onto whatever it is and climb as high as you can.

11:16~12:15

[NARRATOR] Also, Dr. Imura points out the difficulty vehicles pose on your ability to hear.

[DR. IMURA] It’s important to remember that the sound of the car will drown out outside sounds and make them harder to hear. The various sounds of a car may make it difficult to hear the approaching tsunami.

[NARRATOR] It is certainly true on the video that you cannot hear the roar of the tsunami approaching over the sounds the car. Mr. Muroga also had this to say about the sound.

[MR. MUROGA] In the video, I think you can see that there are many people lined up on the roof of that building. I’m pretty sure these people were screaming at us to run and get out of there. But none of us in our vehicles noticed them. We couldn’t hear them.

12:15~13:44

[NARRATOR] About trying to escape a tsunami in your vehicle, tsunami specialist Dr. Imura had this to say.

[DR. IMURA] Basically, people who can’t walk well should use a car to try to escape. Those who can walk or run should, in principle, not use their vehicles.

[NARRATOR] Cars being swept along… the might of the tsunami. Mr. Muroga told us that through these images he hopes to educate others about the awful power of the tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It seems like Mr. Muroga maintained his calm in a difficult situation. In that part of the city, there are lots of buildings and you can’t see very far, making it difficult to notice the approaching tsunami. Furthermore, as we saw in the video, with the windows rolled up you can’t hear the tsunami approaching either.

[NEWSCASTER, FEMALE] It was very quiet on the video, wasn’t it?

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It had been an hour since the earthquake struck and Mr. Muroga was more than 1km inland, so he didn’t think there was any danger from a tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, FEMALE] According to our tsunami specialist, it was the first time he had ever seen footage like this taken from within the tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It’s very valuable footage. It would be great if many people—everyday people and tsunami specialists—could watch this footage and from it find the means of how to protect themselves and others.

>> ^nanrod:

Is there something about Michigan I should know about before I plan another visit there. Actually Abbotsford, BC.>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
>> ^nanrod:
I drove past a farm this morning and there was a tractor pulling a big tanker that was doing exactly the same thing!

Michigan?



Nah, not really. Just a lot of rural landscape. Unless you're going to Detroit.

Is there something about Michigan I should know about before I plan another visit there. Actually Abbotsford, BC.>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

>> ^nanrod:
I drove past a farm this morning and there was a tractor pulling a big tanker that was doing exactly the same thing!

Michigan?

>> ^nanrod:

I drove past a farm this morning and there was a tractor pulling a big tanker that was doing exactly the same thing!


Michigan?

I drove past a farm this morning and there was a tractor pulling a big tanker that was doing exactly the same thing!

>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^ant:
>> ^Mcboinkens:
>> ^ant:
nsfw for cussing.


Care to explain?
Not my translation so I claim no credit, but apparently this is what they say:
"So I tried to decipher what the people are saying in the background of the video (starting at 00:16). Here it is:
A plane crashed. A plane crashed. A plane crashed.
Wha... What's that?
A plane crashed.
Crashed?!
Yeah
The 770 crashed.
What was that?!"

I heard him say sh t at :26.


Just as a heads up, he's not speaking English there, it just sounds like the word shit.


Ah.

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>> ^mxxcon:

Description says IL-76MD, but video title says TU-154..so which one is it?

From 0:15 to 0:18, you can roughly make out wing geometry and position in relation to the fuselage, despite the missing tail section. It's definatly not a Tu-154.

>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^ant:
nsfw for cussing.


Care to explain?
Not my translation so I claim no credit, but apparently this is what they say:
"So I tried to decipher what the people are saying in the background of the video (starting at 00:16). Here it is:
A plane crashed. A plane crashed. A plane crashed.
Wha... What's that?
A plane crashed.
Crashed?!
Yeah
The 770 crashed.
What was that?!"


I heard him say sh*t at :26.

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>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^Mcboinkens:
>> ^DerHasisttot:
>> ^Duckman33:
Amazingly only 7 people died from what I read.

How many would have been un-amazing?


I had to edit my comment, I just found out that it was a military plane and not a passenger plane. Only 7 people were on board, and all 7 died.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_Air_Force_mid-air_collision


Considering the severity of the impact, I was amazed that only 7 of allegedly 160 people on board died. If this were true, what's the problem with me thinking that scenario is amazing? The thread I was reading on Reddit claimed there were 160 people on it. Guess they were wrong.


My question was meant out of pure interest of your shifting point from amazing to *blank*.

There is no measure, of course, when something can be called amazing or not. It is entirely subjective. My personal opinion (which I don't want to be taken as a measure for anyone but myself for personal reflection), is: All survived: Amazing. One of 160 died: Tragic/Sad.
Again, just for clarification: This is not an attack on you, I just want to understand you and other people and myself better. :-)

>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^DerHasisttot:
>> ^Duckman33:
Amazingly only 7 people died from what I read.

How many would have been un-amazing?


I had to edit my comment, I just found out that it was a military plane and not a passenger plane. Only 7 people were on board, and all 7 died.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_Air_Force_mid-air_collision



Considering the severity of the impact, I was amazed that only 7 of allegedly 160 people on board died. If this were true, what's the problem with me thinking that scenario is amazing? The thread I was reading on Reddit claimed there were 160 people on it. Guess they were wrong.

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