MISSION: never again a disaster like the tsunami which killed over 300,000 people - many of whom could've been saved by alerting them. Background The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean took more than 295,000 lives. The waves struck some of the countries hours after an earthquake occurred near Indonesia and hours after the tsunami threat was discovered by geo-observatories or witnessed in coastal areas of Thailand and Indonesia. There were a few cases where some people in these countries alerted their folks back home in India and Sri Lanka thus saving entire villages. But