Bodycam video shows Gloucester City police officers, good Samaritans rescue drivers dashing off Liberty Pier

Full-body camera footage obtained by Action News shows the chaotic April 28 rescue after a female driver plunged off Liberty Pier.

Officer Sean Gartland, Officer John Bryszewski and Detective Sergeant Carlos Depoder immediately jumped into action to save the woman.

Gartland was the first to join.

“Once inside, I started opening the door and started checking, trying to find her,” Gartland recalls.

Next, Bryszewski and Depoder made a 10-foot drop into the water and began searching.

“When I got in the car, I went to the front passenger door. I checked there first. Then I checked the back door. She was in the dash,” Depoder said.

Officers then pulled the woman onto a log and began performing CPR in the water.

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Bryszewski recalls: “It was too high for us to lift her out of the water and onto land. So I believe it was Officer Gartland who, if I remember correctly, said, ‘Use the log. “.

Depoder said: ‘They kept her body on a log, using the log and I just did chest compressions.

But there is no way to get her out.

Gartland said: ‘There’s no way we could have revived her without some intervention.

They had one in the form of three good Samaritans in a boat.

Deptford’s Gene Blemings and two of his colleagues are on a work barge.

“One of the men saw the overtaking vehicle and said, ‘Let’s go.’ We jumped on the boat,” said Blemings.

Once there, Blemings told the officers they were there to help in any way.

Blemings said: “I was halfway there and helped her onto the boat.

One of his colleagues was a volunteer firefighter and performed CPR until they got the woman onto a nearby pier.

Officers say Blemings and his co-workers are a godsend.

Bryszewski said: “I jumped on the boat with them. I got burned from being in the water and kept her up.”

“Everybody was in the right place at the right time,” says Gartland.

As you’d expect, no one involved in the rescue thought they’d done anything out of the ordinary.

Blemings said: “I’m glad she’s alive.

“I feel like we did our job. We did what we said we would do, what we swore we would do,” Depoder said.

The ministry said the woman was in critical condition but was slowly recovering.

Police said it was still unclear what caused her to leave the fishing pier in her car.