Images capture stranded Land Rover submerged in sea off beach

An unlucky motorist ended up in deep water after parking their 4x4 on a beach.

A paddleboarder shared a film online as they paddled over the top of the submerged vehicle at Abersoch, Gwynedd, leading some to draw parallels with James Bond's submarine car from the 1977 movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

Others questioned whether images posted online showing the vehicle stranded by a rising or falling tide had been produced by AI.

But HM Coastguard confirmed it was alerted on Sunday morning that a vehicle had been stranded and then removed later that day.

It's not yet clear what led to the vehicle, a Land Rover Discovery, becoming stranded.

But Abersoch councillor Siôn Edwards said "everybody was talking about it" over the weekend.

He couldn't recall if it had happened on the same beach before, but that vehicles had become caught out by rising tides further along the Gwynedd coast.

It happened "so often" at Black Rock Sands, Porthmadog, he said, that a farmer regularly offered to tow stranded vehicles off the beach.

Parish council clerk Einir Wyn agreed that such incidents were rare on the golden beach at Abersoch.

She said she had heard about Sunday's incident after her niece had showed her family a Tiktok video of the paddleboarder going over the submerged vehicle.

"My elder sister, she'd been away... and she heard about it," said Wyn.