Daniel Poole had been on a surfing trip to Sri Lanka when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean off the west ...

He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, ...

The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude ...

a bit sad. It’s celebrating their life.” British surfer Daniel Poole, 44, was in Sri Lanka when the waves crashed into the guest house he was sharing with his now wife. He said: “I leapt out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...