The Indian Ocean - Bay of Bengal island of Car Nicobar as seen right after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami the sad anniversary of which takes place later this year. After the tsunami, Wilderness Films India exclusively flew over the island to get you this rare first-hand footage of the damage and destruction.
One can see the air-strip on Nicobar as our chopper takes off. The palm-fringed beaches stand silent, in mute testimony to the recent destruction. Large masses of water can still be seen marooned inland and along the estuaries, having destroyed large patches of rain forest on this pristine island.
This fantastic island is home to the endangered Narcondam Hornbill and the Nicobar Pigeon - birds that are seen nowhere else in the world!
Flying over the island's forest cover and the rain forest canopy, one comes across a forest road that is used to supply villages inland and was perhaps at one time used to move timber to sea.
What are those strange housing plots or platforms in the middle of the island? Is that some planned settlement that failed or an ill-hatched government housing project?
And in that one seamless shot, we reach the other end of the island of Car Nicobar, only to see more death and destruction from the terrible tsunami of south-east Asia. See broken roads and bridges and flooded estuaries and inland waterways.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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