After her husband passed away, Sakiko Miura opened a restaurant off the
coast of Japan. To welcome guests, she hung three buoys at the entrance,
each bearing her husband’s name. Unfortunately, the 2011 earthquake
and subsequent tsunami that killed at least 20,000 people took everything
Sakiko had, devastating her restaurant. Months later,
David, a beachcomber in Alaska, over 5,000 km away, discovered
one of the buoys from Sakiko’s restaurant and returned it to her.
Sakiko and David become good friends.
The second buoy was found among the wreckage of the restaurant.
However, the third buoy vanished beneath the ocean’s surface.1
These three buoys symbolize a tale of connection across the ocean, a
narrative of ties beneath the ocean, and a story of both disaster and hope.
Because, after so many years looking for treasure at
the bottom of the sea, we find out,
that the real treasure is the sea itself.
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1
PACIFICO Creative Risk Communication. (2022, December 12). Forget me not. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqs6m-DFb0