“I don’t think people could hold there more than five minutes in this water, especially with clothes on,” he added. It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
The sauna boat happened to drift by soon after the Tesla ended up in the water, Oslo police said.
Photos show people on the vessel with towels around their waists pulling the passengers out of the water.
“One of the guests came running and told me a car had landed in the water. I accelerated to full speed in the direction of the people,” the sauna boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, told Norwegian newspaper VG.
“With the help of two guests, we pulled them up. They were able to warm up in the sauna,” he added.
To anyone wondering. Sauna boats are not common in Norway. It’s not “a thing”. Please don’t add it to the list of Scandinavian stereotypes 🙏
Your friendly neighbour Finland here! We love them sauna boats! They are very much a thing here!
I would move to Finland in a heartbeat if you weren’t all psychotic.
Also is a “friendly” Finn someone who makes eye contact as you pass them?
Psychotic? Are you sure it’s not the Swedes you are talking about? An understandle mistake, I know I couldn’t make difference between Swedes and Norwegians!
Eye contact? Thst too sounds like swedish shenanigans to me! A friendly Finn is one who moves far enough to the side when you pass, you know, to give space. Space is the second thing we love the most right after sauna boats! You know, the personal kind!
I apologize if there was offense. I feel like psychopath was meant as a term of endearment for enduring the cold and the dark, plus the insanely hot saunas you’re capable of (I need a child’s sauna lol) and the ubiquitous rally driving abilities.
The respect Finnish people and other Scandinavians offer in that regard is the polar opposite of American culture and can be viewed as cold by us. I’ve heard that the fake facades we put on are viewed as dishonest and rude by you and I tend to agree. It’s tiring.
Thank you for the clarification, I shall consider us Psychopaths (Proudly, Adored) from now on :D /j nah but honestly speaking like half of us are depressed and the other half is just about to be. Straightforward here doesn’t mean saying what bothers you and we can be quite jealous people. Oh and shame is definitely our national feeling. I’d like to visit America one day and experience the vastness and see if people really are as confident and shamelessly proud as depicted!
Too late… It’s already ingrained in my mind as “of course they do”
Too late I already have. Now I think your whole navy is clothing optional coed sauna boats.
So you’re telling me people don’t drive their sauna boats to their job site in the forest where they rake the forest floor?
Its true, only about 1 in 5 households own a sauna boat, the rest are govt-owned
Too late, henceforth all Norwegians are stamped as people eating lutefisk while steaming in their sauna boat, in a sea of Tesla’s.
Please feed this prompt to an art AI, I want to see
Lol I was thinking the same while writing.
Probably are in Finland, though.
I know they’re not actually part of Scandinavia (rather Fenno-Scandinavia), but MAN do they love saunas! They even have a sauna in a Burger King and take sauna tents with them when they go camping!
I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, “the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal”, so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read “Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord…” if it were a different car.
The sauna boat is the factor
Yeah, I’d definitely have posted it no matter the make of car.
Yeah but would the headline have mentioned the make in that case?
Probably not. A subeditor knows how to get extra clicks.
I downvoted because of this. I don’t like Tesla. But I hate this click baiting and lying to tarnish a reputation. Let them do it themselves. They are doing a good enough job.
Self-driving (er, “”self””-driving) didn’t cross my mind actually. I read:
- driver wealthier than average
- not a parent with more than four kids (Tesla doesn’t make minivans) … (wait the X seats up to 7, though that’s uncommon I think)
- driver not in one of the highest death rate cars
I take your point that the benefits of being able to make these assumptions may not outweigh the downside of potentially misleading people on the potential self-driving aspect.
Its an electric car thing, they have much higher acceleration than most people are used to so people crash them like this.
3 years ago, during peak Autopilot hype, the media absolutely would have plastered “AUTOPILOT FAIL???” all over the headlines. With a quiet retraction the next day with the driver admitting to a manual mistake.
I remember there was one big story about a Tesla that wrapped itself around a tree, caught fire, and occupants died. Instant blame on “Autopilot kills” and “EVs dangerous!!!” even though everyone who actually looked at the facts knew that autopilot won’t even activate on that street and it wouldn’t automatically go that fast.
A few weeks later post-autopsy, turns out it was a drunk dude showing off his car to his drunk friend, treated a residential road as a drag strip, with predictable results.
This has to be the most Nordic title I’ve ever read.
Well, what about
Volvo plunged into Norway fjord before ‘quietly awkward’ occupants rescued by passing floating sauna
Oh. I thought, like, the whole company plunged off the side of the pier.
What a shame.
Cracking up picturing you legitimately disappointed, licking finger tip, turning newspaper page
Smoking a pipe, in my underpants, sitting cross-legged wearing bath slippers, in a foul brown armchair, fez on head.
Sauna boats sound much more innovative than “full self-driving”.
It’s the future. We’ll look back and wonder why we thought EVs were a good idea while everyone has at least one sauna boat.
Perhaps the Scandinavians are right and saunas are the answer to everything.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Finns celebrated the news that alcohol and high heat killed the virus …
And they’d already mastered the art of social distancing.
Can confirm. It was pretty much business as usual in Finland while the rest of the world was doing something called “lockdown” and taking special precautions, such as keeping the distance of at least 1 alligator between you and everyone else.
Saunas, universal single payer healthcare and 73 different ways to eat herring. Sincerely, am Scandinavian.
Do you have stories of The Great Herring War?
Unfortunately, that was before my time.
“It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
Folks, I think we’ve got ourselves a brand new sentence here.
It sounds like a story from a very young child with very vivid imagination. Sure, Kevin, a floating sauna, that’s enough shrooms for you today.
