US Coast Guard rescues pensioner from a sinking car

Dramatic video footage has captured the Panama City Coast Guard effecting a dangerous rescue on the waters of St Andrews Marina. Unusually, though, the team was not rescuing someone from a sinking boat, but from a sinking car.

The occupant, an 89-year-old man, had driven off the side of the marina, and found himself trapped inside the vehicle as it rapidly filled with water.