Paddleboarder finds sunken luxury car off coast of Bear Grylls’ private island

A woman has shared her surprise after spotting a luxury car in the sea just two miles from Bear Grylls’ private island.

The 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.

Passers-by reported seeing the £80,000 4×4 floating in the water attached to a tow rope.

One woman, who was paddleboarding near the beach, spotted the car at around 7.30am on Sunday (May 3) – around two hours before high tide.

She 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.

The paddleboarder, 45, then filmed as she rowed over the top of the car, which by then – at 8.55am – was completely submerged.

‘It’s gone mental in this tiny little Welsh village,’ she said. ‘I don’t know [whose car it is].’

Eventually, the car was pulled out by workers at a local farm using ‘about three tractors and diggers.’

The 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.’

The 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.

‘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.

‘It happens, but they usually get towed out. Because it was the middle of the night, it didn’t.

‘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.’

The car was spotted moments from Saint Tudwal’s Island West, purchased by celebrity adventurer Grylls for a reported £95,000 back in 2001.

The island, near the Llyn Peninsula, is around 700m long and 200m wide and is a haven for marine life.

‘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!’

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