he learned to scuba dive to find the body of his wife who died of the tsunami

“It will take time to find everyone. I really want to find my wife, but I know there’s a good chance I won’t. Right now I’m training because I need to improve very quickly»Said Yasuo Takamatsu according to the Mexican portal 24 hours.

Takamatsu, a bus driver by profession, was never a natural candidate to learn to dive and feared he couldn’t do it, but says you feel pushed into the water when you think about the last time you heard from your wife Yuko, before the 20-meter wave engulfed him. You’ve already graduated from scuba diving, but body diving is a dangerous activity and requires experience, although your instructors are confident in your abilities..

“She was a sweet and kind person. She would always be by my side, physically and mentally. I miss her, the big part of me that was I miss her, ”the man said, adding,“ I feel bad thinking that she is still there. I want to get her home as soon as possible ”.

Takamatsu’s last contact with his wife was a text she sent him at 3:21 p.m., half an hour after he A large underwater earthquake rocked Japan on Friday March 11, 2011 and triggered a massive tsunami that traveled at jet speed towards the Japanese coast.. Weeks later, while touring the area, bank workers found Yuko’s cell phone and returned it to Takamatsu.

The man dried off and turned on the phone to see that she had written a text message he had never received, almost exactly when the water would have reached the roof of the bank. “Huge tsunami”. That’s all he wrote in the last one“, he underlined.

Over 18,000 people died from this tsunami. More than 2,500 bodies are still missing. The phenomenon has also destroyed communities and swept away homes and cars.