The Seattle Times: Local News: Couple’s final photos “an echo from the grave”:
The resorts were all destroyed, he recalls. “We saw suitcases that were never claimed. Shoes. Thousands and thousands of shoes. Passports … ”
“My friend spotted the camera. One more piece of junk. It was smashed up pretty bad.”
He said he popped out the digital camera’s memory card and tossed the rest away.
Back at their hotel, he used his Palm Pilot to upload a flawless set of photos from the card onto his computer.
I think it’s pretty remarkable that those film cards are that durable. The pictures are amazing: such a postcard-perfect day, then that awful wave rushing in.