A Tesla automobile and its occupants had been headed straight for the icy depths of an Oslo fjord on Thursday once they had been rescued by folks on a floating sauna boat that occurred to be close by.
“One of many visitors got here operating and alerted me {that a} automobile had fallen into the water. Then I went full throttle towards the individuals who got here climbing out of the automobile,” the boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, instructed the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.
Oslo police confirmed the incident in a post 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 automobile was in park when he stepped on its accelerator. The error despatched the automobile diving straight into the icy fjord. Verdens Gang didn’t present the names of the motive force and his passenger.
The Tesla’s driver and passenger may very well 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 motive force and the passenger later warmed themselves up with the sauna on board.
