Rescuers break window to save elderly couple after car goes over Dunedin seawall [Video]
As his boat started out from Dunedin Marina, Courtney Douthit glanced back to a shock Sunday.
A Mercury Marquis accelerated from a parking space, over the seawall and into the harbor. A couple in their 80s were inside.
Douthit halted his boat and jumped into 6 feet of water. He was joined by two others, and they saved the couple by shattering the car's rear window with a fire extinguisher and their bare hands, and pulling them out as they sank.
"It could have been your grandparents, that's part of the deal," said Douthit, an electrician and part-time fishing guide. "We were there at perfect timing."
Joseph Schlesselman, 89, and his wife, Ruth, 86, had come to the marina Sunday afternoon to watch the boats.
Source: Rescuers break window to save elderly couple after car goes over Dunedin seawall [Video]
