A much better feel good story than finding a dog at sea after the tsunami

[midnight rambler]

Circumstances sometimes thrust very ordinary unassuming folks into hero status.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/03/japan.tsunami.captain/index.html?hpt=C2

[gunDriller]

Circumstances sometimes thrust very ordinary unassuming folks into hero status.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/03/japan.tsunami.captain/index.html?hpt=C2


i like his description of the wave -

"Sugawara says he is used to seeing waves up to 5 meters high but this was four-times that size."

15 feet x 4 = 60 feet.