Divers at epicentre tell of epic journey to safety.

(From The Statesman (India))

ANN & Agencies JAKARTA, Dec. 30. - When the catastrophic earthquake struck, British tourist Mr Al Howard and his French girlfriend Ms Sophie Pasquier were among the closest people on the planet to its tumultuous epicentre. Two days later, after an epic journey across seas littered with floating corpses and mangled cars, the tourists emerged alive to tell the tale. The couple's story of survival is one of the first to emerge from witnesses closest to the centre of the disaster. Mr Howard, a 33-year-old former soldier, and Ms Pasquier, 34, were on a diving trip on Indonesia's northwestern island of Pulau Weh, just 130 km from Sunday's …