Japan Earthquake 2011: Heroic Tsunami Rescues Caught On Film (VIDEO)

Grim details surrounding Friday's colossal earthquake and ferocious tsunami may be continuing to emerge, but so have some truly inspiring survival stories as well as heroic rescues made by everyday citizens in Japan.

Clips of a new documentary film which aired yesterday show the dramatic rescues of a young woman, along with a father and two children. The three were trapped among the wreckage in the rapidly flooding city of Sendai, situated close to the epicenter of the magnitude-9.0 temblor.

View live updates from Japan here.

Watch video of the heroic feats, courtesy of Reuters, below:

Comments

[eudynews]

02:05 PM on 03/18/2011

2011 Watch Japan tsunami and hit worst areas Video : - http://goo.gl/8HXbE

[eudynews]

01:17 PM on 03/18/2011

Over 10,000 dead as Japan weighs in burying the nuclear reactors leaking radiation : http://goo.gl/8HXbE

[ltague]

10:55 AM on 03/18/2011

Thank you so much for showing this video! My sister saw the footage of the father clinging to his 2 children & looking around in desperation trying to figure out how to save them. Then she could never find out any more information about them. It was haunting her. I just called her & told her to watch this video; the children & father were rescued!

[PoliSci2008]

12:53 PM on 03/18/2011

Isn't it wonderful to know they survived? For all the cynics at there, this viedo really brings home the human factor of love! F & F

[SA Texas]

01:29 PM on 03/18/2011

Indeed it is .And to the detractors P*uk 'em !

[ltague]

01:41 PM on 03/18/2011

Yes!
F&F back!

[Ramon Derecho]

08:20 AM on 03/18/2011

م-ط
كنواااق
فزيت يوم اطريت اسمك

[Ramon Derecho]

08:19 AM on 03/18/2011

انا ابياذبح المللك عبد للله
عنزي يحكم يهب

[Ramon Derecho]

08:19 AM on 03/18/2011

م-ط الكنق الملك عبد العزيز ال سعود
غدر في الدويش شيخ المط وقته
راان

[Ramon Derecho]

08:17 AM on 03/18/2011

المطيري كنوق
السعوديه
والعالم العرب وكل واحد يعارض يجي في الروضضه في الرياض اقابله

[Ramon Derecho]

08:16 AM on 03/18/2011

لو مو قاريه العنوان كان قلت انت محب ابو سامي الموجوده مقاطعه هنا باليوتيوب بصراحه ريشتكم وحده انت ومحب ابو سامي اذا مو انت نفس الشخص :)>محبه ابو سامي وهـ بث :$

[Ramon Derecho]

08:15 AM on 03/18/2011

ابوسامي اسطورة لن تتكرر وكثير يعزفون و يحاولون يقلدونه لاكن بنظري سلامه الافضل تحياتي

جووووووو انا بي نت كسها احمر ممكن

[Ramon Derecho]

08:13 AM on 03/18/2011

عبد الله السام عطني عهد هااذ الاغنيه ابكتني كثير لكن جوهاا جميل جدان وراع اسمعوهاا في ايوتيوب عطني عهد

[skunky93]

05:22 AM on 03/18/2011

My heart...It overflows with emotion when I watch these video's.

[FACTISFACT]

08:59 PM on 03/17/2011

These people surviving the catastrophe are miracles left for the world to heed the rules of ecology. Who can grantee that it will not happen in any other country as has happened in Japan. None is above God's set law. God alone can give life and take life. These lives are his spared ones' rescued. Praying to God to have mercy on all who survived the catastrophe........Amen.

[splizo]

09:58 PM on 03/17/2011

The reason they were saved was do to humanity for sure. Votes are still out on if a god had something to do with it. It warms my heart when people come together when it counts.

[FACTISFACT]

11:31 PM on 03/17/2011

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[Star2000dancer]

11:56 PM on 03/17/2011

Love is the face of my God. If it's love, joy & peace, that'w when I feel God. Where there's fear, pain, & sadness, that the complete opposite.

[Hirnlego]

04:16 AM on 03/18/2011

Nobody is above his law but you'll pray to god so that he changes his ways?

Inventing earthquakes? What an - - - - - - -!

[PoliSci2008]

07:22 PM on 03/17/2011

Much Love & Prayers to the Japanese. Glad to see those in this video survived.

[Star2000dancer]

11:57 PM on 03/17/2011

Fanned comment. I love to see compassion.

[PoliSci2008]

12:49 PM on 03/18/2011

Me too, Star. And thank you. F & F.
Sometimes, most times, commenting here can be so misconstrued, unless we use those words that express compassion. Despite the provocative comments made here, like Anne Frank, I know majority here are kind, like you! See you around. And God Bless You, too.