In a series of events that can only be described as “very Scandinavian,” two people who accidentally drove their EV into a Norwegian fjord on Thursday were rescued by several people who were relaxing on a floating sauna.
U.S. News & World Report reports that according to one witness, the car was stopped before it rapidly accelerated into the water and that the driver mistakenly thought the car was in park when they hit the accelerator.
As the car began to sink into the cold water, the two occupants were able to crawl out onto the car’s roof. When those on board the floating sauna noticed the two people stranded in the fjord, they headed over to give them a rescue as quickly as the little sauna could go. “I gave full throttle toward the people who came climbing out of the car,” the sauna’s skipper Nicholay Nordahl told a local newspaper.
They reportedly arrived just as the car slipped under the water. Patrons onboard the floating sauna, dressed in nothing more than a towel, managed to rescue the car’s two occupants. “With good help from two of the guests, we got them up. They warmed up in the sauna,” Nordahl told the paper. Their car was later recovered from the fjord, presumably quite a bit worse for the wear.
Obviously, we’re happy that the two people were rescued and weren’t seriously injured, and it’s a great visual to imagine a bunch of the palest people you’ve ever seen working together to pull them on board. The biggest surprise, though, is that Norway has motorized, floating saunas. Can we try one of those out, please? That sounds incredible.
We would, of course, need to be allowed to drive it, as well as relax in the sauna itself, but surely we could work something out. Just think of all the extra business you’d get if you flew one of out to write a review, floating sauna companies. You could make dozens of extra dollars. Dozens!