Authorities successfully battled “challenging conditions” to rescue the driver of a Jeep whose vehicle was submerged in the water on a California beach over the weekend.

A Jeep was nearly overtaken by the waves in Southern California over the weekend, prompting an ocean rescue in challenging conditions.

Officials in California rescued a person after they say ocean waves pulled in a Jeep. Around 5:30 a.m. Dec 14., Newport Beach police and fire crews were called for reports of a vehicle in the water at Corona Del Mar Beach, according to a news release from the Newport Beach Fire Department.

Newport police officers faced "challenging conditions caused by waves rolling the vehicle in the surf" after it crashed into the water on Corona Del Mar Beach.

Rescuers pulled a person from the water and retrieved an SUV after the vehicle somehow ended up bobbing in the surf in Newport Beach over the weekend, officials said. The unusual rescue unfolded about 5:30 a.