American scuba diver underwater during tsunami

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/tsunami.diver/index.html

(CNN) -- An American woman who was scuba diving with her husband in Thailand as one of Sunday's tsunamis roared overhead said she was oblivious to the disaster until after they surfaced, her mother told CNN on Tuesday.

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Soon they saw bodies floating past them, Wachs' mother said in an interview from Oakland, California, where she lives.



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Faye Wachs said she was impressed by the efforts of the Thai government and the International Committee for the Red Cross, but "she was appalled at the treatment they got" from the U.S. government, her mother said.