A TikTok video from Daily Mail said Yasuo Takamatsu has spent nearly 15 years searching for his wife, Yuko, who disappeared when the 2011 tsunami swept through Onagawa, Japan. The long underwater effort has been called an “act of true love.” After searching on land for more than two years, Takamatsu began scuba diving in 2013, the Daily Mail stated. He has since made more than 750 dives in the waters where she was last seen, according to the video. He recovered Yuko’s phone from the parking lot of the bank where she worked, the post said. Her body was never found. Her final message to him asked: “Are you okay? I want to go home.” Takamatsu said he would keep searching as long as he is physically able and described each dive as a way of feeling close to her. Volunteer searches continue in the waters off Onagawa A 2022 Daily Mail report said Takamatsu was still diving every week 11 years after the disaster. An underwater earthquake off Japan’s east coast caused the Tōhoku tsunami on March 11, 2011, the report stated. It left nearly half a million people homeless and killed nearly 20,000. More than 2,500 people were still reported missing at that time. @dailymail For nearly 15 years, Yasuo Takamatsu has continued searching for his wife Yuko, who disappeared when the devastating 2011 tsunami swept through Onagawa, Japan. After searching on land for more than two years, Takamatsu began scuba diving in 2013 and has since made more than 750 dives in the waters where she was last seen. He once recovered Yuko’s phone from the parking lot of the bank where she worked, but her body was never found. Her final message to him had asked: ‘Are you okay? I want to go home.’ Takamatsu says he will keep searching for Yuko for as long as he is physically able, describing each dive as a way of feeling close to the wife he has never stopped looking for. #japan #news #yasuotakamatsu ♬ original sound – music