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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nA woman has shared her surprise after spotting a luxury car in the sea just two miles from Bear Grylls’ private island.\n\nThe Land Rover Discovery is thought to have been left on a beach in the coastal village of Abersoch, Wales, before being submerged as the tide came in.\n\nPassers-by reported seeing the £80,000 4×4 floating in the water attached to a tow rope.\n\nOne woman, who was paddleboarding near the beach, spotted the car at around 7.30am on Sunday (May 3) – around two hours before high tide.\n\nShe then told her husband, who was walking his dog at the time and used his drone to snap photos of the car as it sank beneath the waves.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nThe paddleboarder, 45, then filmed as she rowed over the top of the car, which by then – at 8.55am – was completely submerged.\n\nThe paddleboarder spotted the bizarre underwater object (Picture:WALES NEWS SERVICE)\n\n‘It’s gone mental in this tiny little Welsh village,’ she said. ‘I don’t know [whose car it is].’\n\nEventually, the car was pulled out by workers at a local farm using ‘about three tractors and diggers.’\n\nThe unnamed paddleboarder continued: ‘Everyone thinks it’s hilarious, wonderful – there was a big crowd watching it being pulled out, but still no-one knows whose it is.’\n\nThe woman believes the car must have been placed on the beach the night before, with low tide having fallen at around 4.30am that morning.\n\n‘Because of the tide, you know there was some kind of foul play on the beach at night, around 3 or 4am, for the tide to come in over it,’ she continued.\n\n‘It happens, but they usually get towed out. Because it was the middle of the night, it didn’t.\n\n‘It did have a tow rope on the back that was floating up out [of] the water, so maybe someone tried to pull it out.’\n\nThe car was spotted moments from Saint Tudwal’s Island West, purchased by celebrity adventurer Grylls for a reported £95,000 back in 2001.\n\nThe island, near the Llyn Peninsula, is around 700m long and 200m wide and is a haven for marine life.\n\n‘It has a little lighthouse beside our house and is surrounded by amazing sea cliffs, seals, and dolphins,’ Grylls previously told Vanity Fair. ‘It is my favourite place on the planet!’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Paddleboarder finds sunken luxury car off coast of Bear Grylls’ private island"
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