From Herald Sun
FOUR kite surfers were lucky to survive after their jet ski broke down in Port Phillip Bay.

The men were kite surfing about 7.5km from Sorrento when the jet ski they were relying on to tow them to shore faltered on Saturday.

The alarm was raised when one of the men phoned for help.

Water police and the Southern Peninsula Rescue and Coastguard pulled the four from the water after dark.

The first man, stranded on the jet ski, was rescued at about 10pm.

Police on jet skis eventually reached the other kite surfers, who were stuck on Mud Island, at about 1am.

"The conditions that night were horrendous," Leading Senior Constable Jay McDonald.

"It was dark and stormy with squalls of up to 40 knots and rain.

"The jet skier was adrift in the middle of a busy shipping channel and if he hadn't had his iPhone on him he would not have been able to raise the alarm."

What really went on out there?