Photo: Allexxandar/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual diver.)
In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.
The disaster took 19,759 lives, and as ofAugust 2022, 2,553 people were still missing.
Photo: Allexxandar/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual diver.)
One of them was a woman named Yuko Takamatsu, whose body was never recovered from the ocean.
Looking for a body in the ocean is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Still, Takamatsu has not given up.
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I have no choice but to keep looking for her.
I feel closest to her in the ocean.
The couple met in 1988.
Photo: PlanctonVideo/Depositphotos(Not the actual diver)
He was a soldier in Japans Ground Self-Defense Force and his boss introduced them.
The loving husbands search for his beloved wife was inevitable, but he didn’t start in the ocean.
He first looked inland, at the bank where his wife worked.
Photo: richcarey/Depositphotos(Not the actual diver)
There he came across her cellphone with a sobering unsentmessageaddressed to him that read: so much tsunami.
He joined Takamatsu on his dives, keeping records and maps.
No one ever really knows how the sea moves or flows.
If a body is pulled down to a certain depth, it stays there.
If it catches in fishing equipment, it might float across the Pacific and turn up in Hawaii.
Among them are directors Erik Shirai and Masako Tsumura, who produced the short filmNowhere to Go but Everywhere.
Meanwhile, Anderson Wright directed a nine-minute film titledThe Diver.
I have no choice but to keep looking for her.
I feel closest to her in the ocean.
Watch the trailer below.
