Updated - ‘We both knew just what we had to do...’

Updated - adds video - Police Constable Paul Cassar found the courage to push himself and dive a few metres deeper to rescue a woman trapped in a sinking car, only because he knew his work partner was close by. “The woman was about one-and-a-half storeys beneath the surface. Although my colleague could not dive all the way down with me, because his breath did not allow him, his presence was very important. I knew he was there and that he was looking out for me. I don’t think I would have pushed myself that extra bit if he wasn’t there,” Mr Cassar, 38, told Times of Malta. Mr Cassar and his partner PC Clayton Frendo, 29, were the two police officers who jumped into the sea to help rescue the 29-year-old woman whose car ended up in the sea at the Ta’ Xbiex marina on May 4. The woman is still in a critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital’s intensive care unit where she is on a life support machine. Three weeks after the accident the two officers, who have been work partners for three years, recounted how they struggled with the murky water and the depth. That day they were on the 5am shift at the Sliema police station. At about 6.55am they received a phone call informing them that a...