Originally Posted by anndel
Originally Posted by Virtus_Probi
The fish are probably looking at the divers and thinking, "YOU guys don't belong here, either!"
A lot of stuff has washed up on the west coast from the tsunami. Boats, fishing gear, part of a temple and even a floating dock.
The torii or temple gate was discovered on a Oregon beach. It was taken to Portland where it was kept by the local Japanese society until it could be traced back to its origin. They were successful and the torii was returned to the temple it came from.
A tsunami is primarily a vertical disturbance, not a mass horizontal movement of water -- it is not going to push fish from one side of the ocean to the other.
Certainly when the big wave comes ashore it can drag things like temple gates out to sea, and they may eventually drift across.