Go to: Amid the utter devastation, grief and sorrow bought on by the Indian Ocean tsunami, these are a few of the incredible stories of survival. In this heart-wrenching picture, a woman is seen running directly toward the killer waves in a desperate bid to warn family members in the water. Her identity and the family's fate remained unknown for a week. But Swedish mother Karin Svaerd, her husband and three sons are back home in Sweden, happy to report that somehow they all survived with little more than a few scratches.