VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Rough waters at the oceanfront prevented a diving team from retrieving the car that drove off the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier into the ocean Saturday morning.
Investigators said Sunday morning they had a plan in place to attempt to retrieve the car, but efforts by Crofton Diving and Salvage failed and had to be called off because of rough waters.
Virginia Beach Police Public Information Officer Jude Brenya said police are working on another plan to get the car out of the water.
“We do know where the vehicle is at,” Brenya explained. “It’s still stationary in the last location that we checked so we are going to keep monitoring it. We are going to go back on the planning board and try to see when we can come back out,”
Officials said they will make another attempt in the week ahead.
At this point, the details about who was behind the wheel of the car and why they ended up on the pier remain unknown.
Raw video shows car driving off VB fishing pier
Video showed the car drive toward the end of the pier, which sits between 14th and 15th streets, briefly pause, and then go off the end into the ocean.