Local man Mike Moriarty used specialist water-rescue skills to pull couple from car
Two American tourists were rescued after their car plunged off a slipway into the sea on Valentia Island in Co Kerry.
The couple who are believed to be in their 70s and staying in Killarney were rescued by a local man with water-rescue skills. Mike Moriarty was at the pub in the Royal Hotel in Knightstown on Monday afternoon when a woman tapped him on the shoulder and said she thought she saw something going off the slipway near the clock-tower ledge.
“I looked and couldn’t see anything but I walked over and I could see a silver car in the water,” said Mr Moriarty.Alongside the slipway wall he could see a silver car nose down in the water and two elderly people inside.Mr Moriarty could not open the driver’s door, and in order to rebalance the car he opened the back door to allow water in, which caused the nose of the car to reposition itself.
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