Tsunami Evacuation on Palmyra Atoll

Just a quick blog, just got back from abandoning Palmyra atoll. As you may know there was a large earthquake in american samoa that generated a tsunami. If you look on a maps america samoa is the next piece of land straight from Palmyra atoll so we abandoned the island. We were about 5 minutes from getting the water for our first collecting scuba we got a call from Palmyra station to come back immediately, then a sail boat that was waiting to come in was told to back off palmyra atoll. All very dramatic sounding. Then we were told to not delay and make full speed back to station. Still we did not know what was going on but the Captain a was flooring it back then we heard about the the tsunami warning. When we arrived we loaded up the boat and sped out to see to wait a few hours until the trouble past... luckily the tsunuami arrived.