When a tsunami is generated, where should a ship escape to if it is already out in the sea?
People generally think the ship should quickly go toward land where there is a port, but it is safer to go out into the open sea as far as possible from land. That’s because the closer it is to land, the shallower the water gets that the waves become dramatically high. But in the offing, the waves do not rise high. In fact, when a tsunami hit Fukushima in Japan in March, 2011, the ships that fled to the port were swept away, broken and sunk by the waves, but the ships that went far to the offing were able to escape the disaster.
Even if they knew it was safer to go to the deep sea, it would not have been easy to turn the ship around, towards the sea where the tsunami was coming from; the fear they feel at the critical moment in the middle of the sea must be as great as the tsunami. However, if we break the fixed idea and stand against fear, the way of life gets opened.