The police have rescued a woman in a rapidly sinking BMW

In Waitemata harbor Auckland New Zealand on Tuesday afternoon the real drama was played out - with the characters and rescue zhiznyu.

At about 3 pm local time on a BMW with a 63-year-old woman at the wheel, lost control, went off the parking lot on a cliff in the harbor and quickly began to go under water. Fortunately, the incident were witnesses who promptly called the service spaseniya.

To help two police officers arrived, Paul Watts and Simon Russell, who immediately rushed to the sinking car. Open the door, they could not. One of the rescuers tried to break the glass baton, but to no avail. Then his partner guessed take a piece of the rock on the beach - they somehow managed to cut out and a strong German manufacturer of glass and rescue terrified zhenschinu.

According to Watts, the main danger was that the heavy machine confidently move down the sloping bottom at a depth of - and if if they hesitated even for a moment, the woman would have gone under water. Russell has somewhat slowed the process, trying to keep the car hands - on luck these courageous effort was enough to have time to make the right decision. The entire rescue operation took about 40 sekund.

The woman escaped with shock, minor cuts and bruises and is now in hospital in a stable sostoyanii.