On my last trip to Phuket, I became quite friendly with several motorbike and Jeep rental guys at Patong beach.

Since these guys operate so close to the beach and are usually there at time the tsunami hit, would all of them (or most of them) been killed?

I sure hope not!

On my last trip to Phuket, I became quite friendly with several motorbike and Jeep rental guys at Patong beach.

Since these guys operate so close to the beach and are usually there at time the tsunami hit, would all of them (or most of them) been killed?

I sure hope not!

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It all depends, there were a couple of big waves before the big one hit, and also the ocean water started going out to sea big time beofre the big one hit. It all depends if they were there watching all of this or if they took off running after the first few bigger waves. It was also 10am when it happened and Patong is still not fully awake at that time.