Pinned underneath debris as a tsunami engulfed him, Australian surfer Ben Robin thought he was about to die. Then, when he managed to swim free, he climbed a tree and waited as several smaller waves washed beneath. Finally, when the Byron Bay man thought it was safe to come down, he and his mates spent a terrifying night in a three-storey observation deck, all that was left of the Macronis surfing resort in Indonesia’s Mentawai islands.
He felt the ground shake and was sure the next one would bring an even bigger tsunami that would kill them all. “I thought it was … Details
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