"NARRATOR:" "On August 26th, 1883, the tiny volcanic island of Krakatoa erupted, creating one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history." "In less than 48 hours, it destroyed hundreds of towns and villages and left more than 36,000 people dead." "(SCREAMING)" "No, you can't... (SCREAMING)" "Those that survived the eruption left diaries, eyewitness accounts and interviews." "They were collected by the geologist Rogier Verbeek, one of the few scientists to have witnessed the eruption." "This film is based on those accounts." "VERBEEK: (IN VOICEOVER) I lived." "Tens of thousands didn't." "Some of them are my friends." "I have spent the last two years of my life trying to piece together the terrible events of August 1883." "We were living in the most volcanic region on the planet," "Indonesia." "There are more than a hundred active volcanoes here." "Krakatoa is just one of them." "The volcanic island of Krakatoa sits in the middle of the Sunda Straits, thirty miles from the mainland." "For centuries, the people here have lived within sight of the volcano." "We thought it posed no threat." "I could have saved these people." "They witnessed the last days, when the world changed forever." "Contracts have been issued for the pepper and the customary 2.5 % which bring us higher yields than Mr DeVries had initially... (RATTLING)" "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "It's doing it again, Mama." "The world's shivering." "(GLASS RATTLING)" "(BABY CRYING)" "I win!" "I win!" "WILHELMINA:" "That's cheating." "PIETER:" "No, it isn't." "How much money is left in the reserve account?" "Nothing, tuan." "And we still owe... 75 guilders interest in the last..." "Willem?" "If we don't get the commission on those coolies..." "The horses are out of control." "I'll see to it." "It's fine, I'll see to it." "Willem, have you thought about it?" "Thought about what?" "Please." "Johanna, I'm sorry but I can't leave Katimbang." "The harvest to arrange, the market opening on Sunday, it's impossible." "You know, maybe in a couple of weeks..." "What about the tremors?" "They're getting worse." "In your imagination." "It's been rumbling away for months." "Please, Johanna, you're going to worry yourself sick about this." "I'm sorry, I can't help it." "Anyway, go where?" "Anywhere." "Batavia, the hill farm or..." "I don't know, I'm sorry." "I'll see to the horses." "VERBEEK:" "The Beijerincks." "Willem was controller of Katimbang, a Dutch outpost." "He struggled on his meagre government salary." "His wife Johanna was 26 years old and a mother of three." "We met several times that summer and never saw eye to eye." "I should have listened to her." "In May 1883, I visited the Schuit family." "Having heard reports of increased volcanic activity," "I wanted to see this for myself." "The Schuits, a Dutch family, lived and worked on the Fourth Point lighthouse, 3,0 miles to the east of the island of Krakatoa." "Bravo!" "Isn't she magnificent?" "Is it dangerous?" "Of course it's dangerous if you're sitting on top of it, but we're perfectly safe here, there's 30 miles of sea between us." "It's the best seats in the house." "Enjoy the show." "This is the island of Krakatoa with its three peaks." "JOSEF:" "And where did you land?" "About here." "Weren't you scared?" "Scared?" "No." "I was too busy collecting samples, and getting scratched to shreds in the jungle." "What makes it explode?" "Erupt, I mean." "Do you still have that piece of pumice you showed me?" "Yes." "We have to live here." "Oh, it's just Rogier, please." "No, it's not him, it's just..." "VERBEEK:" "The answer to your question lies in the bubbles." "I'm worried." "You see them?" "It's like this beer here, it's full of bubbles." "You shake the beer, the pressure builds up inside, the bubbles need to escape, but they can't!" "Until..." "Whoa!" "Josef, it's past your bedtime." "Say goodnight to Mr Verbeek." "Goodnight, Josef, I've enjoyed our conversation very much." "You can keep it." "Thank you." "Two scientists sharing their knowledge." "CATHARINA:" "Come on, Josef." "Wait." "Where did you say you found this?" "I found it on the beach." "Why?" "VERBEEK:" "The pumice Josef gave me held the secret of Krakatoa." "A sign of what was happening deep inside the volcano." "But at that time, I had no idea what it meant." "On May 20th, Krakatoa began for the first time to emit vast quantities of smoke." "It should have been a warning to us, but for some this was just a chance to make money." "(LINDEMANN SINGING)" "Captain?" "Captain?" "(URINATING)" "You, salute your commanding officer." "VERBEEK:" "J H Lindemann, Captain of the Governor General Loudon." "Since the death of his wife and only child two years earlier, he'd been reduced to ferrying passengers around the local area." "Listen to this." ""Join the excursion of a lifetime." ""Take a boat trip to the furnace of the gods, Krakatoa," ""and walk on a live volcano, one of the greatest natural wonders of the world."" "My hotel guests, your ship." "The Loudon is not a pleasure steamer." ""Furnace of the gods" is bilge." "Come on, Lindemann." "We'll make a killing." "It'll be like the old days." "Oh, but it seems I wasted my time." "Enjoy the cigar." "Gerrit, morning tide is at 6:00 a.m." "Tell your guests to be on time." "Papa!" "Papa!" "(SPEAKING MALAY DIALECT)" "VERBEEK:" "Tokaya, Willem Beijerinck's clerk, was one of those thousands ofJavanese recruited by the Dutch to run the colony." "But his loyalty to the Dutch empire left him isolated." "(SPEAKING MALAY DIALECT)" "(SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "VERBEEK:" "On May 27th, 1 883, the steamship Loudon took 86 paying passengers on a day trip to Krakatoa." "Just look at them." "Fools." "They're paying fools, Lindemann." "Twenty five guilders a head." "Your good health, Captain." "Keep it at leeward, Mr Jansen." "Aye, aye, sir." "Don't like the look of that smoke." "What smoke?" "Lindemann, I smoke, it doesn't make me dangerous." "You just count your money, leave the ship to me." "(VOLCANO ERUPTING)" "God in heaven." "(VOLCANO RUMBLING)" "Whoa!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "How far to Buitenzorg?" "Three miles, sir." "Quick as you can." "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "VERBEEK:" "I didn't know then what the volcano was telling me." "These blasts were a sign." "Deep below the earth, magma was clearing a path to the surface." "It was only a matter of time before it escaped." "LINDEMANN:" "Sound the horn, Mr Jansen." "We're leaving." "Well, what about the guests?" "The guests paid in advance, I hope?" "Hard a-stern, Mr Jansen." "But...you can't just leave them." "Can't we?" "They've got half an hour, no more." "Be careful with the satchel." "Schuurman?" "Schuurman!" "Schuurman!" "Schuurman." "For heaven's sake, Rogier, what is it?" "Only room with a view." "Sorry." "A view of what, damn it?" "Of that." "Krakatoa is 100 miles, give or take, 5,280 feet and a two..." "Divided into a half, 132,000." "That makes it nearly five miles high." "Hell." "Precisely." "I know it's here somewhere." "Got it." "What is it?" "A clue, I think." "You see?" "This pumice is the same, from Tambora." "But Tambora was a catastrophic event, biblical." "The crater's four miles across, I've seen it myself." "Krakatoa's just a couple of vents." "You mean Krakatoa will be the size of Tambora?" "I don't know what it means." "I just don't know." "NARRATOR:" "Throughout May and into June, the three craters of Krakatoa continued to emit jets of steam." "The gases caused strange blue and green colorations to the sun." "They were considered harmless by the inhabitants, the volcano being some 3,0 miles from the coast." "Life continued as normal." "Duchess." "NARRATOR:" "Johanna Beijerinck was later interviewed by the Dutch authorities." "JOHANNA:" "It seemed the tremors were getting worse every day, but my husband Willem wouldn't listen." "He was becoming increasingly preoccupied with his business affairs." "(WHISPERING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "(SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "There is nothing wrong." "Things are benun." "Confused, out of balance." "The animals know." "They're leaving." "NARRATOR:" "As controller of the district," "Willem Beijerinck was responsible for the safety and well-being of all the people." "He was kept fully informed about the developments on Krakatoa, yet did nothing." "It seems he was preoccupied by other matters." "There is a problem with my licence, tuan." "I thought the contracts were..." "Contracts are in order, tuan, it's just..." "My man couldn't get the coolies for the pepper harvest, that's all." "So, the money?" "I need more time." "I had your word, the word of a Dutchman." "Just..." "Just give me three weeks until the harvest." "I'm a businessman, Mr Beijerinck." "I have a licence and obligations." "Perhaps your colleague in Batavia would be interested to know how much you owe me." "How dare you." "(GUNSHOT)" "(CROWD SCREAMING)" "(SHOUTING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "And the little boy asked," ""Are you ready?" ""Shall I wake the spirit of the mountain?"" "And a wind blew." "(MIMICKING SOUND OF WIND)" "And the sea rose." "And the spirit appeared." ""Many lifetimes I have slumbered under the mountain." ""Now, I wake, and they must learn" ""what it is to earn the wrath" ""of the spirit of the mountain."" "(EXPLOSION)" "(ALL GASPING)" "(LAUGHING)" "As to whether she'll erupt?" "No." "She'll kick off for a few days and then go back to sleep." "Well, I think you're wrong." "Why?" "Have you noticed the animals?" "Animals?" "They're behaving very strangely." "The monkeys and the birds won't settle in the trees, the hens won't lay." "Well, wouldn't that effect your opinion?" "No." "Well, I think it should." "The natives have long believed the mountain to be very dangerous." "I hardy think that native superstition qualifies..." "Maybe it isn't superstition." "Maybe they understand the mountain better than you do." "I'm sorry, it just seems to me that you're ignoring the..." "Shame on you, a scientist." "VERBEEK:" "I realised far too late that I should have listened to her." "(EXPLOSIVE RUMBLING)" "(DOG BARKING)" "Mama." "Beautiful." "(WHISTLING)" "This is the last batch, sir." "We'll get them stowed by nightfall, we're leaving with the tide." "Aye, aye, sir." "VERBEEK:" "At 1 0: 00 a.m. that sunday," "Captain Lindemann docked at Anjer to pick up a consignment of Chinese workers, or coolies, as we call them." "Their destination was Telok Betong to the north." "It was a journey they'd never complete." "All right, move it up down here and don't stop." "Get yourselves down the ladder." "(CHATTERING IN CHINESE)" "SAILOR:" "Two, three, four..." "Captain Lindemann, a word if you please." "The bridge is yours, sir." "What is the meaning of loading the ship with coolies?" "They're for Controller Beijerinck." "I don't care if they're for the King of Holland, they stink." "Captain Lindemann." "Hmm?" "The coolies." "They bother you?" "They stink." "You ever thought what we smell like to them?" "Hmm, maybe they're right." "Right about what?" "Corpses." "They think we smell like the dead." "Good day, gentlemen." "This is unacceptable." "(RUMBLING)" "(DOG WHIMPERING)" "VERBEEK:" "The northerly course that Lindemann steered would take them closer to the volcano than anyone else that day." "We have to change course, Mr Jansen." "Aye, sir." "Change course." "Take a bearing from Pulo Soengjan, set a course for Lampong Bay, 191 degrees." "Place Sebesi out on the port side, and enter the bay from here." "Jansen!" "Aye, sir, steering course 191 degrees." "Steering course 191 degrees." "What are you doing?" "I'm measuring the height of the ash cloud." "It's basic mathematics." "But what is it that you do?" "I try to understand the world, how it works." "Do you understand the volcano?" "It's a complex geological process." "It was formed millions of years ago, before man." "My people...we are not afraid of the volcano." "JOHANNA:" "That morning, I didn't want to go to the festival." "Willem tried to calm me." "The market opening would be a joyous occasion." "I was convinced that something dreadful was going to happen." "What' s the matter?" "I just..." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "(EXPLOSION)" "(SCREAMING)" "What's happening?" "I don't know." "Willem!" "It hurts my ears." "Willem, we must leave." "Wait here, wait here." "Sergeant!" "Sergeant!" "No, please!" "Please!" "I want you to take the attachment and secure the warehouses." "Maartens, the arsenal, and Fitzrinck, the telegraph office." "I want a line open to Batavia." "Is that clear?" "Yes, sir." "I need a detachment in the town and on the coast road." "Now, go!" "Willem, please!" "You have your orders." "Go, go!" "Now..." "I can have him ready in half an hour." "Johanna, we are not leaving." "What?" "It's my duty, I have to stay here." "If the natives see us leaving, they'll riot." "Now, take the children back to the house." "The house is not safe!" "The volcano is 25 miles away!" "Now, please, I know what I'm doing!" "Go home." "Mama!" "NARRATOR:" "By now, the volcano was in full eruption." "Every second, almost a million cubic metres of ash, rock and pumice were being forced out of the vent, crashing down the mountain side." "This avalanche had an extraordinary effect on the sea." "It caused unpredictable swells and rapid tidal movements." "The volcano was about to claim its first victims." "(SPEAKING MALAY DIALECT)" "Mummy will be back in a minute." "Nina?" "Addi?" "(RUMBLING)" "(SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "(EXPLOSION)" "Karim." "What the...?" "(SHOUTING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "(WAVES ROARING)" "Tuan, let's go." "Tuan!" "(PEOPLE SCREAMING)" "(SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "Put me in prison." "Okay." "Now, let me go." "What's the magic word?" "Please." "Mina, Pieter, Pieter!" "Go upstairs." "Quickly, now!" "(BABY CRYING)" "Go upstairs and find somewhere safe." "Quickly, move!" "(SPEAKING MALAY DIALECT)" "Leave the door." "Quickly, go into the bedroom." "What are we doing, Mama?" "Hide, hide, I said." "Get in the cupboard, now." "Can I...?" "In the cupboard, now!" "(COUGHING)" "Iyati?" "(BABY CRYING)" "Oh, no." "Johanna?" "Johanna!" "Johanna!" "Johanna!" "Willem!" "Johanna!" "Pieter, Mina!" "Here!" "Please, God." "Thank God." "Mama, Papa." "Papa." "Come here." "Oh, thank God." "Oh, thank God." "Thank God." "Thank God." "VERBEEK:" "On the day of the eruption, the geography of the area would determine who would live and die." "At the centre of the Sunda Straits," "Krakatoa was within 3,0 miles of land in all directions." "The first tsunami produced by the volcano had headed north, where it destroyed Katimbang, killing thousands." "The steamship Loud on and the Fourth Point lighthouse were untouched in the south." "As was I in Buitenzorg, 60 miles inland." "We were safe for the time being." "Sumatra Geological Survey 1850, volumes three and four." "Lyell's Principles of Geology." "Werner's Classification." "Scrope on Extinct Volcanoes." "(SHOUTING) Coffee!" "We'll need some coffee." "It's gonna be a long night." "How could I have been so stupid?" "." "The answer's right in front of us, look." "Why didn't I see this at that time?" "." "Look at the profiles." "Steep here and shallow down into the centre." "You see?" "What does that tell you?" "A single, common source of rock inside the..." "Inside the caldera, exactly." "The caldera, singular." "These aren't three different volcanoes, it's one." "One volcano, all fed by one reservoir of magma." "But that's immense." "And I told them they were safe." "Excuse me, tuan." "Who's this?" "A girl." "I can see that, Shuurman." "We're busy, get rid of her." "What do you want?" "." "The mountain." "What about it?" "It's done this before." "NARRATOR:" "In less than an hour, the column of ash was 3,0 miles high, fanning out in all directions." "Soon it would engulf both land and sea." "(SHIP BELL TOLLING)" "(VOLCANO RUMBLING)" "(JOHANNA SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "How long will it take to get to the hill farm?" "." "On foot, five hours, maybe more." "Soon it will be impossible to breathe here, we must get to higher ground." "Come on, children." "(SPEAKING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "Duchess." "Duchess!" "Is he going to die, Papa?" "Is he going to die?" "He's still breathing." "Come with me." "You have to come with me." "I don't want him to die." "We have to leave." "I'm sorry." "I don't want to go." "I don't want to leave him." "Come on." "(GUNSHOT)" "No, you can't." "Come back." "You can't... (SHUSHING)" "It's useless." "Compass won't work in this." "(SHIP BELL TOLLING)" "MAN:" "They think it's evil spirits, sir, trying to sink the ship." "This ash keeps falling, they'll succeed." "What the hell are you doing?" "." "Come on." "Get up." "I want these decks kept clear." "Rotating teams working bow to stern." "You understand?" "Yes, tuan." "Over the side!" "(COUGHING)" "NARRATOR:" "Sailors that survived the eruption reported a strange glowing." "Gases and ash mixed creating violent electrical discharge." "The lightning is dangerous." "BUt ash is a far worse threat." "Just a foot of ash is heavy enough to destabilise a ship." "At 5:00 p.m., the Beijerinck family headed towards the hills to the northeast." "Away from the spreading ash cloud." "Johanna recorded the following account." "JOHANNA:" "The journey was one I would hope never to go through again." "We were unable to take the road and were forced to walk." "First up a costal track and then through a wood with no path." "Pieter, I need to rest a bit." "Behind us was a continuous, terrible roaring, as if the sea was still trying to catch Us." "Where are we going?" "Pieter, I told you, to the hill farm." "I don't remember." "Pieter, I'm sorry." "Come and rest." "I should go back and help with the evacuation." "We'll muster relief from Telok Betong." "There's a battalion of the 7th billeted there to deal with the insurgents." "It'll take three days..." "Look around you." "If Van Sandick's men stayed, they're already dead." "And you will die, too, if you return." "These people, they understand." "Go on, Pieter." "Jump." "That's a good boy." "Let's go." "There are many stories about the mountain." "About how the spirit of the mountain broke the land into pieces." "And sunk into the sea and how it was reborn out of the sea." "And some people say that it will come again." "To destroy us." "I've got it." "The Javanese Book of Kings." "PUstaka Raja PUrwa, it is our history." "It was ony published in Dutch a few years ago." "This chap, Ranggawarsita, collected all the folklore." "I picked it up in Batavia, but I thought it might be interesting." "Listen to this." ""The year 416," ""at last with a tremendous roar, the mountain burst into pieces" ""and sank into the depths of the earth."" "And the next verse?" ""The water of the sea rose" ""and flooded the land."" "Pass me the map." "If I am right, and history is repeating itself, then an eruption of this magnitude will generate a wave that..." "It will engulf this entire coastline." "May God have mercy on their souls." "VERBEEK:" "I had thought that 3,0 miles of ocean would protect us from Krakatoa." "But what we had seen so far was just the beginning." "LINDEMANN:" "Get up there and clear that lot off." "It's all gotta come down." "The ship can't survive this." "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "Quiet, please!" "Quiet!" "Now, I need everyone to go below." "WOMAN:" "What?" "No." "MAN:" "Why on earth should we do that, Captain?" "Because the ash is unbalancing the ship." "It's making her top heavy." "So, what does this mean?" "I'll tell you what it means." "It means that if I can't lower her centre of gravity, she'll capsize." "MAN 1 :" "We're going to be human ballast?" "MAN 2:" "Along with the coolies." "It's for the good of everyone on board!" "I won't do it." "I won't be packed in there with beasts..." "I can distribute the weight in one of two ways, sir." "Below or overboard." "It's your choice." "Oh, for God's sake." "You're not going to do this, are you?" "(PEOPLE GRUMBLING)" "LINDEMANN:" "Come on, down the hole!" "(COUGHING)" "Watch your step down there!" "What are you doing here, miss?" "What can I do to help?" "You get below with all the others." "I don't want to hide." "I want to do something." "What's your name, miss?" "." "Elisabeth." "Well, Elisabeth, you can help me by being strong." "You understand?" "Because if you are, they will be." "You saved my life." "Thank you." "Your famiy, your..." "Your wife and children, where are they?" "They went into the hills, tuan, with the others." "You must miss them very much." "Earlier at the..." "At the house, earlier." "I thought I'd never see them again." "NARRATOR: 8:30 p.m." "The Loudon had now been at sea for more than 12 hours." "Around it the ash was sucking moisture from the air." "(SHIP CREAKING)" "JOHANNA:" "We reached our hill farm by the late afternoon." "And in my heart, I thanked God that we'd at last reached safety." "BUt God cannot have been listening because the worst horror was yet to come." "You all know me and know you can trust me." "(WOMAN TRANSLATING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "You're under my protection." "And by God, I shall do my duty by you." "You're my children." "There's no need to be frightened." "You're safe here." "My, erm..." "My family are here with me, and I shall stay with you as I shall stay with them." "May God be with us all." "NARRATOR:" "That morning, there was no dawn on Krakatoa." "throughout the night, the explosions increased." "A series of booms could be heard hundreds of miles away." "The volcano was entering a new phase." "JOSEF:" "Papa?" "Mama wants to know when you're coming down." "I can't leave the light." "It should have been dawn two hours ago." "Go back downstairs." "Look to your mother." "(BABY CRYING)" "Why won't the baby stop crying?" "'Cause Mama doesn't have enough milk." "(EXPLOSION)" "(EXPLOSION)" "(HIGH-PITCHED WHINE)" "(MUFFLED) Mama." "Mama, I can't hear." "(MUFFLED) Johanna." "(MUFFLED) Johanna, can you hear me?" "(MUFFLED) Can you hear me?" "(HIGH-PITCHED WHINE FADES)" "(SOBBING)" "(RUMBLING)" "It's started." "Bring a carriage round!" "This is madness." "You'll be killed." "What will that achieve?" "Don't you understand?" "." "This is all my fault." "What's your fault?" "How can this be your fault?" "I should have known." "I could have warned them!" "I can still warn them." "The sea is coming!" "NARRATOR:" "After 20 hours of constant eruption, the magma chamber of Krakatoa was empty." "With nothing to support it, the volcano began to collapse." "The resulting blast was so great, it was heard 3,000 miles away in Australia." "The loudest noise in recorded history." "Millions of tonnes of ash and pumice poured into the ocean triggering a tsunami more destructive than anything that had come before." "(SEA ROARING)" "CATHARINA:" "Jacob." "Jacob!" "You must come down." "I can't." "I'm sorry." "Sounding?" "Aye, aye, sir!" "Hold her steady, now." "Keep her headed for the volcano." "Yes, sir." "That's the direction it'll come from." "What?" "Where what will come from?" "The wave." "You've turned the ship about!" "What are you doing?" "I'm doing everything in my power, believe me." "We can't put in at Telok Betong." "The harbour's been destroyed." "(ALL GASPING)" "MAN 1 :" "How is it possible?" "MAN 2:" "What exactly does that mean?" "Quiet!" "Listen to him." "The closer to land, the higher the waves." "The sea swept it away." "What?" "Then where are we going?" "I'm taking her out to sea." "We're all in the greatest danger." "We have to face the truth." "If it's God's will..." "WOMAN:" "What are you saying?" "I'm saying I'd glady give my life to save any one of yours." "(ELISABETH SINGS MELANCHOLY SONG IN DUTCH)" "Sounding?" "SAILOR: 15 fathoms." "She's in 15 fathoms, sir." "Very good." "Now, I want a two-cable shackle outside the hawsepipe." "We're anchoring." "Why?" "Because, Mr Jansen, if she isn't anchored, we'll be ripped inshore and smashed to pieces." "SAILOR: 12 fathoms." "Oh, my God!" "It's fast!" "Drop the shackles, now!" "Aye, sir!" "Keep the screw turning." "Ahead full speed." "Get below, sir." "13 fathoms." "Tie me to the wheel." "Now, you get below." "No, sir." "I'm staying here." "Tie yourself down, Mr Jansen." "Sir." "(PEOPLE SCREAMING)" "(WAVES CRASHING)" "Jacob, we need coal." "When are you coming down?" "(COUGHING)" "(DOG WHIMPERING)" "Can't carry on like this." "He's gone." "What?" "Theo." "Theo's gone." "No!" "No, don't go out there!" "Josef!" "Josef!" "Josef!" "Josef, boy, what are you doing?" "Go inside!" "But Theo!" "Oh, give me the lantern, I'll find Theo." "Theo!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "Mama!" "Mama!" "Theo!" "(DOG BARKING)" "Mama!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "Theo!" "(JACOB SCREAMING)" "VERBEEK:" "The wave was more than 40 metres high." "It lifted the lighthouse from its base." "It destroyed the entire coastline." "Towns." "Villages." "There was nothing they could do." "Thousands died." "What was unknown to me then, was that the volcano had one last terrible secret to reveal." "NARRATOR:" "The collapsing volcano had unleashed a final avalanche of scalding ash and pumice." "Where it made contact with the water, it rode on a cushion of steam." "Ash, gas and pumice heated to more than 500 degrees centigrade ripped across the ocean towards the highlands of southern Sumatra." "Your turn." "(EXCLAIMS)" "Now, I play you again." "(SHOUTING IN MALAY DIALECT)" "Get inside." "Get inside, now!" "Quick!" "Into the back." "Quickly, quickly." "Into the back room." "What is it, Mama?" "I don't know." "Please, God, no." "The baby!" "(CRASHING)" "(GASPING)" "(SOBBING)" "Are you there?" "JOHANNA:" "Without thinking, I walked forward." "Had I been in my right mind," "I think I would have understood what a dangerous thing it was to do." "To leave the vicinity of the farm house and plunge into the darkness." "I think hell is the only word for what I saw and went through." "Come on." "Come on." "Where is it?" "No." "No." "VERBEEK: "We couldn't even bury our child." ""My only thought was," ""Thank God he is at least put out of his agony."" "VERBEEK:" "The Beijerincks left their devastated farm hut." "Of the 3,000 natives who fled to the highlands, more than 1,000 died." "They suffered horrific burns from ash and pumice." "Elsewhere, it was the tsunami that killed." "Jacob?" "The boy?" "My husband's gone." "My boy is gone." "I can't find them." "I'm so sorry." "(SOBBING)" "NARRATOR:" "Captain Lindemann was awarded the cross of gold by the Dutch authorities for his bravery in saving the lives of those on board the Loudon." "His logbook provided an invaluable insight into the eruption of Krakatoa." "He captained the Loudon until his death just two years later." "The eruption destroyed 165 coastal villages and had left more than 36,000 people dead." "There were reports of bodies and pumice being washed up on the coast of Africa a year later." "The Dutch authorities ordered 250,000 gallons of gasoline to be used in the burning of the bodies." "Mama?" "Willem Beijerinck continued working for the Dutch government for the next 13 years, before he retired to Holland." "Johanna Beijerinck's account of the eruption was reported around the world." "She remained with her husband Willem and soon became pregnant again." "She named her youngest child after the one she lost on the hillsides of Sumatra." "Thank you." "You must go, Tokaya." "You must find your family." "Yes, Nyonya." "NARRATOR:" "Nothing is known of what happened to Tokaya or his family." "There are no records." "Rogier Verbeek's work on Krakatoa went on to become the foundation of modern volcanology." "He provided scientists with a detailed, eyewitness account of the entire cycle of an eruption for the first time in history." "The eruption had far-reaching effects." "Twenty million tonnes of sulphur were released into the atmosphere causing extraordinary sunsets across the planet and lowering global temperatures well into the 20th century." "Of Krakatoa itself, almost nothing remained." "Twelve square miles of solid rock had disappeared in the space of 48 hours." "The volcano had literally blasted itself apart." "But in 1927, from 300 metres below the Sunda Straits, it erupted again." "As Verbeek predicted in his writings, a new volcano formed, growing at a rate of five metres every year." "The Indonesians called this volcano Anak Krakatoa." "Son of Krakatoa." "Today, millions of people live within sight of it" "and it's still growing."