The disaster resulted in a death toll of over 19 thousand people, and there are still missing citizens, including Yuko Takamatsu. Despite losing his wife to the tsunami, Yasuo still hopes to find Yuko's body. He has been diving every day since 2013. In order to search for his wife, Yasuo decided to take diving courses at the age of 56 to explore the deep sea.

However, Yasuo's eternal love for his wife made him continue to persevere and still hope to find her body. As reported by Independent, Yasuo and his wife first met in 1988. At that time, Yuko was 25 years old and worked as an employee at Bank 77 in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture.

Meanwhile, Yasuo is a warrior in the Japanese Self-Defense Force. Yasuo's superior introduced them and since the first day they met, they fell in love instantly. However, the couple was separated by the 2011 tsunami disaster. For Yasuo, that moment became the last day he heard news of his wife. He was swept away by the powerful tsunami wave while he was at his office in the 77 Onagawa Bank branch.

Earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, unleashed a devastating tsunami that destroyed cities and claimed thousands of lives, leaving deep scars in the nation's soul that have yet to fully heal. Amidst the chaos caused by the earthquake and tsunami, Yuko managed to send a message to her husband. "

Someone found Yuko's cellphone in the parking lot a month after the tsunami, not far from where she disappeared. Yasuo found an unsent text message on the pink flip phone. The message was written at 15.25. "The tsunami was so powerful," wrote his wife. From that, Yasuo knew his wife was still alive until 15.25, suspecting that at that time the tsunami was already as high as his ankles on the bank's roof.

Continuing to search for Yuko's body in the depths of the sea is not an easy task, many even forbid him from doing it. Finding Yuko in the vast expanse of the sea is like searching for a needle in a haystack. However, the man remains firm in his choice.