To fulfill her final text, ‘I want to go home,’ Yasuo Takamatsu has spent 15 years diving every week looking for his wife lost in the 2011 Japan tsunami.
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To fulfill her final text, ‘I want to go home,’ Yasuo Takamatsu has spent 15 years diving every week looking for his wife lost in the 2011 Japan tsunami.
by thepoylanthropist
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[I want to go home](https://youtu.be/CJuBMP4Bhxo?si=hw__pgAIesKbX6uM)
[Man learns diving to look for wife lost in tsunami](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/584320/man-learns-diving-to-look-for-wife-lost-in-tsunami/amp)
Man that is heartbreaking.
God that’s tragic.
Ok … He didn’t find her, but did he find anyone else?
He dove for 15 years every week????
This is what we are about! Not wars and hatred. Love.
RIP ❤️🕊️
Poor guy grief is so hard, and him constantly diving every week gives him hope to continue, but the truth is the salt water and marine life would have completely decayed her body by now. Thousands of people died in the 2004 Tsunami and none of them were ever recovered, let alone looking for a single specific person.
In Japanese folklore and spiritual beliefs (a mix of Shinto and Buddhism), dying a sudden, tragic death like drowning means the soul is in a state of shock and spiritual impurity (kegare).
If the body is left in the ocean and doesn’t receive a proper funeral (which almost always involves cremation and family rituals), the soul is believed to become trapped. It turns into a restless, wandering ghost, specifically known as a Funayūrei (ship ghost), unable to join the ancestors or find peace.
This isn’t just an ancient myth either; it’s still a huge deal today. For families, leaving a loved one’s body in the sea feels like abandoning them to be cold and lonely forever.
OP is badly in need of karma
dude I think shes dead
He went diving 782 times!
It makes me cry every time I see the interview with him. He just wants her body home, but he will never be able to find her. Its a lost cause. I wonder if thered even be bones at this point.
Reminds me of the song Skates by Hayden 💔
And still going?
Man that body became apart of the concrete and debris it kept hitting over and over again sometimes you just have to face the hard facts magic isn’t real
My first thought is “that’s love”. My second thought is wondering if he’s found remains that were not his wife …. And now I’m sad 🙁
I pray this man finds something of hers she was maybe wearing. Jewelry, a ring, something, so that he may have a semblance of peace.
Everyone has a hobby
She’s already home.
She probably ended up as feed fodder for fish.
That is the most heartbreaking definition of true love.
Thie made me so sad. 🙁
man that’s genuinely devastating. 15 years of diving every single week… i can’t even imagine the determination that takes, especially knowing the odds. the fact that her last message was just “i want to go home” makes it hit different
„Yasuo“ 😂😭😭✌️🥀
Spam Mastery 7 or sth idk
May she rest in peace. Sending my love to her family and friends ❤️
There is an Unsolved Mysteries episode “Tsunami Spirits (Vol 2 episode 4) about the wake of the Tsunami and how some people have coped with it, unlike any of the other episodes they’ve done, may as well be a stand alone doc.
Highly recommend checking it out for anyone curious. In spirit it’s every similar to this guys mission for closure.
May he find her and bring her home 🙏
It’s heartbreaking but honestly her body probably eaten by fishes… He will never find her… 🥲
Forgive me for being the heartless one, but what I’m reading here is “man suffers from mental illness and PTSD resulting in his wife’s death, and people are just kinda letting him (or encouraging him) do this completely irrational and potentially dangerous thing because it sort of reminds them of childhood movie ‘anything for true love’ fantasies.”