15 years later, Japanese man still dives into tsunami waters for missing wife: ‘She might be nearby’

It’s been fifteen years since that fateful day, and more than one and a half decades on, Yasuo Takamatsu won’t let go. Every other week, you’ll find him suiting up in heavy gear along the shore of Onagawa, pulling on flippers, checking his oxygen, and walking into the sea — still chasing a hope that hasn’t faded since March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami swallowed everything, including his wife Yuko.