Hat tip to u/ImGumbyDammit for this post, video of the 'underwater volcano eruption'.
As the fine commentary suggests, something doesn't look right.
One of the people to lose their life (in fact, the only one at time of writing this) in the following tsunami was Angela Glover (Brighton, UK), swept away while trying to secure her charity rescue 'dogs':
https://news.sky.com/story/tonga-tsunami-body-of-british-woman-swept-away-by-wave-found-12518388
Angela was one of a group of people who ran TAWS, Tonga Animal Welfare Society.
https://www.tawstonga.org/about_us
Site only made in 2020, looks to be skeleton staff and very few contacts and 'friends'.
So, where have we seen animal (dog) charity rescue folks in trouble before?
Anyone remember Pen Farthing / NOWZAD from Afghanistan? This was the culmination:
Accusations of saving 'dogs' over refugees. Surely comms.
This one could of course be nothing, but a couple of inescapable similarities stood out, and if the 'volcano eruption' was induced it could add intrigue to the situation.
Over to you frens.
Back to Tonga...look at what I stumbled across:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/republic-of-minerva
http://www.queenoftheisles.com/HTML/Republic%20of%20Minerva.html
What a choice of names, too: Minerva
Owl of Minerva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
This was new to me, too:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-story-behind-the-statue-of-liberty-s-lesser-known-brooklyn-twin
Wow, those are some fascinating details- I'd never heard of any of that, great stuff.
It seems Minerva gets (almost) everywhere. Nice to see it repelled by angry Tongans, you'd have to be brave to proceed..