The arrival of the first wave, smashing against the wooden boat, set off a desperate scramble for gear: knives, warm clothing, headlamps, water. The second wave sent the passengers diving overboard, as the boat tipped forward into the ocean.
Elliot Foote, Will Teagle, Jordan Short and Steph Weisse, four Australians who were on vacation in Indonesia, had joined three Indonesian crew members aboard a rickety longboat on Sunday for a two-hour, 45-mile journey from the island of Nias, off the…