South Bay Tsunami - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 03-12-2011, 06:34 PM

Here's a strange report from this after noon. Took my family out in my buddies 17' skiff and headed south out of J street. The tide was supposed to be rising, except when we got to the end of the bird island the water was going out at about 3-4 knots. And about 20 minutes later it came back in at the same speed. There were huge eddies all around the end of the bird reserve island. This rise and fall happened 2 more times over 40 minutes. I'm estimating the sea level change was about 2.5 feet. I can only guess that many of the after shocks in Japan, some up to 7 on the richter scale, are producing tsunamis. I've been on and around SD Bay for 40 years and I can tell you what I saw today was not any tide generated phenomina. Mike

03-12-2011, 06:34 PM	#1
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	South Bay Tsunami Here's a strange report from this after noon. Took my family out in my buddies 17' skiff and headed south out of J street. The tide was supposed to be rising, except when we got to the end of the bird island the water was going out at about 3-4 knots. And about 20 minutes later it came back in at the same speed. There were huge eddies all around the end of the bird reserve island. This rise and fall happened 2 more times over 40 minutes. I'm estimating the sea level change was about 2.5 feet. I can only guess that many of the after shocks in Japan, some up to 7 on the richter scale, are producing tsunamis. I've been on and around SD Bay for 40 years and I can tell you what I saw today was not any tide generated phenomina. Mike