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The Sea Gypsies

They call it the "wave that eats people," but the deadly 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia spared the Moken, a nomadic tribe living on islands in the Andaman Sea. As Bob Simon reports, these remarkable survivors heeded the earliest signs of disaster and fled to higher ground.
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