I recall in this episode that upon seeing in the Time Tunnel, an image of numerous waves breaking over each other, the General calls them "the tidal wave". Scientists, even in the 1950s and 1960s, did not refer to tsunamis as "tidal waves", but as "tsunamis", the Japanese lexicon, or "seismic sea waves". In books I read on the subject, it was stated in each that this phenomenon had nothing to do with astronomical tides.
One might think that the writers would have been be up on that subject. To their credit, the images shown appear much like the videos of the 2004 Indian Ocean event, and of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The issue remains as to why more research was not put in.
One might think that the writers would have been be up on that subject. To their credit, the images shown appear much like the videos of the 2004 Indian Ocean event, and of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The issue remains as to why more research was not put in.