I think your overdramatising this a little. The Tsunami warning was overkill and you could see that on its way here it was nothing. It was meant to hit Hawii, NZ, Pacific Islands etc before here and there was nothing. It was supposed to hit Australia about 8:30. Nothing. Looking at the Tsunami's path and what was unfolding, a risk assessment would hae been made and the carnival went ahead. I also made the same risk assessment when i went to a closed Bar beach for a swim. (and so did hundreds of other people). This is not a dictatorship and we do have the freedom to think for our selves and conduct our own risk assessments.

I'm just pleased to see they where surf life savers and not life gaurds partisipating in the surf carnival.

No-one ignored the trasunami warning Grahame. It was supposed to be here by 9am at the latest and nothing. So we went for a swim. The SES was totally over the top with its "warning". Those with common sense were in the water swimming that morning.