A Tesla automobile and its occupants had been headed straight for the icy depths of an Oslo fjord on Thursday after they had been rescued by individuals on a floating sauna boat that occurred to be close by.
“One of many visitors got here working and alerted me {that a} automotive had fallen into the water. Then I went full throttle towards the individuals who got here climbing out of the automotive,” the boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, instructed the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.
Oslo police confirmed the incident in a publish on X, previously Twitter, on the identical day. Rescue personnel had been later in a position to retrieve the Tesla with a crane.
The driving force of the Tesla instructed Verdens Gang that he thought the automotive was in park when he stepped on its accelerator. The error despatched the automotive diving straight into the icy fjord. Verdens Gang didn’t present the names of the driving force and his passenger.
The Tesla’s driver and passenger could possibly be seen climbing onto the automobile’s roof because it started to sink, per a video obtained by Verdens Gang.
The automobile was barely seen within the video when Nordahl’s boat approached the Tesla’s occupants. Nordahl instructed Verdens Gang that the driving force and the passenger later warmed themselves up with the sauna on board.
