A man in New Jersey is in critical condition after he received an electric shock while swimming in a Jersey Shore motel pool.

Greg Subiszak of Fair Lawn was found at the bottom of a pool in Cape May. The rescuers could feel the electricity, when they jumped into the pool to save him.

"My body tensed up. I couldn't stop shaking," 17-year-old Ivan Martinez said.

Martinez jumped into action to save a life of a man and found himself the victim of an electric shock in the swimming pool of Jersey Shore motel, after he dove in, he came to know that the person was in a state of electrocuted.

 "I went to touch him and he went into convulsions in the pool. His body was shaking," Martinez said.  

It happened over the weekend at the Aztec Motel in Wildwood. 34 years old, Subiszak, is in critical condition at Philadelphia hospital. "I just felt really sad because his son watched the whole thing happen," Martinez said.

Monday night, Subiszak's family released a statement “thanking people for their well wishes”. Martinez said, “his only regret is that he didn't jump in sooner.”

"I would, I'd definitely do it again," Martinez said. "I wish somebody would do it for me, so I'd do it for them."

- Mayuka