‘Pretty sure that wasn’t supposed to happen’: Tourists end up with car in water after GPS fail

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A pair of tourists in Hawaii ended up taking an unplanned swim thanks to a GPS fail.

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The vacationers were directed into a harbour by their mapping system and kept going until their Dodge Caravan was in the water.

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They were trying to get to a manta ray tour in Kailua-Kona on Saturday, according to The Washington Post.

“I think they just must’ve taken their eyes off the road for a second,” witness, Christie Hutchinson, told Hawaii News Now.

Hutchinson was about to take her boat in from the harbour with her husband and their friends, when she saw the car suddenly head down the boat ramp and into the water, according to the Washington Post.

“I was just sitting there trying to seek shelter from the rain, and then the next thing, I saw a car drive directly past our boat straight into the harbour at a pretty decent speed,” Hutchinson told the Post.

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Hutchinson then filmed the van in the water. It floated for a while, before eventually becoming totally submerged.

Luckily onlookers swam out to help rescue the two women who were inside the van.

Hutchinson can be heard saying: “I don’t think that was supposed to happen,” on the video.

“I think everyone is a bit shocked,” Hutchinson told Hawaii News Now, adding that it “took us a second to figure out what was going on because they didn’t seem panicked or have any sense of urgency to get out of the car.”

Neither woman, whom Hutchinson said were sisters, sustained injuries.