A local fisherman made quite a catch when he fished a woman and her two teen daughters from their car when it sank into Sheepshead Bay on Saturday evening, Oct. 10.

Keith Gorman was on Pier 5 when he heard the car crash through the gate along the Emmons Avenue side of the bay near Dooley Street. “I realized that a car went on the sidewalk and into the water,” the 42-year-old fisherman told reporters. “I took my boots off and my jacket and jumped over the rail into the water.”

Gorman swam to the slowly sinking car and untangled the driver, Alla Yelizarov, from her seatbelt. “She was screaming, ‘I can’t swim, I can’t swim!’” he said. “I pulled the seatbelts aside, turned the car off because the car was still running, and I pulled her out and I pushed her up onto the hood.”

SHEEPSHEAD BAY -- Emmons Avenue along the Bay has long attracted people from the five boroughs and beyond for the restaurants, the fishing boats, and the nearby beaches. There are few things more pleasant than sitting in the sun or under the moon and stars, viewing the water as a soft breeze comes in.