Modin, 45, was on vacation on Phi Phi Islands in Thailand with her then-fiancé Magnus, his brother and another friend when the group was swept away by the tsunami. "We only heard a sound, like a ...

Rachel Hearson says it was a "miracle" she found a "pocket of air" and managed to survive the catastrophic tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean, including the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand ...

After surviving the 2004 tsunami, Thai restaurateur Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana estimates she and others helped over 100 people on the Phi Phi Islands ...

Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his brother Piers and their friends in Thailand's Koh Phi Phi resort when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit on Boxing Day in 2004.

Rachel Hearson says it was a "miracle" she found a "pocket of air" and managed to survive the catastrophic tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean, including the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand ...

Lisa May, 25, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was in her beach bungalow at the Charlie Beach Resort on Phi Phi island, when the tsunami struck. She had gone to Thailand to be bridesmaid at her sister ...

Rachel and her husband Cici were enjoying a leisurely stroll through a beachside marketplace on a paradise island when the Boxing Day tsunami struck in 2004. It was 9.45am on Thailand’s Koh Phi ...

Against the backdrop of a picture-perfect beach in the Phi Phi Islands, the 79-year-old Frenchwoman thinks back to the “unforgettable chaos” she saw at the same spot in February 2005.

Modin, 45, was on vacation on Phi Phi Islands in Thailand with her then-fiancé Magnus, his brother and another friend when the group was swept away by the tsunami. "We only heard a sound, like a ...

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Modin says she was wrapped with wire around her body and pinned by planks for hours before she was finally rescued Soffie Modin can't forget the horrors she ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin was on holiday on Koh Phi ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin was on holiday on Koh Phi ...