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Sitting on an inflatable flamingo in the sea seems like a great Instagram opportunity, until you get pulled further...and further out to sea.。

It's what happened to four teenage girls on "Schoolies" -- a spring break-style holiday for Australian school leavers -- on Phillip Island in the state of Victoria.
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The group were found "floating helplessly" on two inflatable flamingos, a dinosaur and a unicorn half a kilometre (0.3 miles) from shore on Monday, in waters that reportedly, so happen to be teaming with sharks.
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"We just wanted to get a few good Instagram pictures, and it turned out we drifted nearly all the way to the other island," Katie, as she's known, explained on。 The Project
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Tweet may have been deleted。 Fortunately for them, fisherman Alex King and his friend were looking for squid in the area and came by the trouble-stricken seafarers.  。"As soon as we approached them, we figured they were in a bit of strife," King told。

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"And at first they were like, 'thank god you're here' because there was no one else on the water." 。

Via Giphy。

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