Tragically, John and Jackie Knill of Vancouver perished in the recent Tsunami disaster. A man from Seattle doing relief work in Thailand recently discovered their digital camera and salvaged the memory card and got it to John and Jackie's three sons.
This memory card included shots of their parents enjoying their vacation, as well as shots of the huge wave crashing toward the beach. Each photo shows the waves approaching the shore closer and closer. You can view some of these pictures online including the final picture.
It's chilling to consider ones final moments spent snapping pictures in the hopes the memory card would survive to tell the tale. In an increasingly digitized world, less and less will be left unknown. In some small way, this memory card offered comfort to those left behind, therein fulfilling John and Jackie's hopeful intent.
