The world has experienced an unprecedented catastrophe of a magnitude like no other in modern history this Christmas season as death came from the sea. An earthquake originating in the Indian Ocean generated a tsunami that struck all nations bordering it and has left hundreds of thousands of people affected by it, homeless and without hope.

Initial estimates put the dead at close to 100,000 in the countries of India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and more. These numbers do not nearly reflect the depth of the disaster as thousands of families have been destroyed.

 However even during this unprecedented catastrophe, the “parting of sea” proved beyond all doubt that the bible is the true word of God and what ever recorded in the bible is true, even though we do not understand all of them. The parting of sea is reported to have happened in the southern most tip of India ( Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu state, India) Following is an article published in one of the largest circulating English newspaper in the state of Karnataka. The item was published on the seventh page of their issue dated 28th of December’04

"An astounding phenomenon corroborated by local people, police and journalist in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu was the appearance of sand and small rocks in the sea between the Pumpuhar Shipping Coproration's boat jetty and the Vivekanda Rock Memorial after the killer waves (Tsunami) receded after lashing against the shores on Sunday. The Vivekanda Rock Memorial is just five minutes' journey by boat from this point. One youth said that the sand was visible just like the sediments formed in a bottle of sand and water. The phenomenon lasted less than 15 minutes. " At one point it was even felt that people who were stranded at the Vivekanda Rock Memorial could even attempt a hop-and-jump back to here from the rock. But the wind was menacing and for once even the very calm sea ( after the event)appeared scary", claimed Mr. Bala, the tourism officer at the information office."

Reported by Mr. R. Gopakumar. Deccan Herald News services. Published on the 28^th December'2004. Page 7 of Deccan Herald news paper.