This is the terrifying moment two pensioners – and the passer-by who tried to save them – nearly met a watery end when they were swept away by strong waves.
Luckily they were rescued by another bystander who leapt in after them, and escaped without serious injury despite repeatedly being knocked down by the violent waves and dragged out to sea.
The video was taken on the storm-beaten coast of Ploudalmézeau, in Brittany, on Porsguen beach.
A Parisian tourist, Olivier Lou, in his fifties, was strolling on the beach wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket when tragedy almost struck.
He was being filmed at the beach by a disabled friend who was sitting further up the path that leads to the beach.
The three were eventually saved by a passing mechanic, Eric Roudaut, 42, who was walking with his wife and three-year-old son and had come to photograph the impressive sea scape.
