A journalist for the British-based ITV network caused a minor furor this week with his Tweets relating how he jumped into the harbor of Rafina, east of Athens, to save an elderly man whose car plunged off the quayside.

Tom Bradby also claimed that the man committed suicide, while at the same time railing at what he described as inaction by coast staff at the port.

He was reportedly in Greece with his family for a vacation.

Authorities did, in fact, later confirm that a died after his car went into the water, at roughly 16:30 local time.

Bradby’s Tweets are found below.

Two questions, however, arise for the ITV political editor: How did he determine that the incident was a suicide? Also, if he and the one coast guard officer were unable to save the man, how would the other nine that remained on land, as he said, been more successful in any rescue?