Friday, January 21 2005 18:36 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

There is a sense of fear and helplessness after the latest tsunami (Dec 26, 2004) that killed more than 150,000 people and caused material damage worth many billion dollars.

All over the world scientists are exploring ways and means to prevent such events.

A summit has now decided to create a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean. The high-tech equipment could detect tsunami that is still one mile out at sea (Julianna Kettlewell, BBC).

Unless you warn the people in the remote areas, who are not equipped to receive the warning messages, the technology is not only useless but also wastage of money and labour.

An Australian scientist, Phil McFadden says as follows, "There's no point in spending all the money on a fancy monitoring and analysis system unless we can make sure the infrastructure for the broadcast systems is there". The Pacific Basin already has a warning system and, when there was a rash of tsunami in the 60s, it proved invaluable. If it is so, why we need another tsunami warning system.

I myself have come to same conclusion while working for the Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka. When I installed expensive imported meteorological instruments, very often they failed due to various reasons. What is the guarantee that multimillion-dollar worth tsunami warning system will give accurate warning signals well in advance to save lives and infrastructures?

Even if it gives accurate warning signals, it is impossible to take necessary measures to prevent losses, within short period of time. Therefore it is very important to device a new method.

By the experiences gained from using fire alarms, smoke detectors and carbon-monoxide detectors, we know, efficiencies of these devices are very low due to various factors such as human behaviour.

Based on the above-mentioned facts, it is a foremost duty of scientists to device a new technology or a device not only to prevent massive loss of live but also their properties and environmental hazards caused by tsunamis.

I have developed a new technology to minimise any type of damage caused by tsunami. I am ready to demonstrate my proven technology to anyone at any time at any place who is competent to judge my valuable work.