Passengers jump from hot air balloon as fuel runs out

Drifting out over the ocean, a hot air balloon with 9 people on board is rescued by a passing boat. The balloon ended up floating over the Port Phillip s Bay in the Australian state of Victoria after it ran low on fuel and wasn t able to land properly. We just got up there and I think the wind just didn t really behave the way they were expecting and just couldn t quite get it to land so we drifted out over the There were fears the balloon could ditch into the ocean, but the passing boat saw it and made its way over. The pilot was then able to offload the passengers one at a time. Lucky enough that just a couple of blokes on the bigger boat that we landed on just happen to see us coming down. So they followed us all the way out and did an awesome job of getting us all off safely cause that was the hard part as soon as someone jumped out the balloon took off again. So it was sort of a bit of balancing act of getting people out yet not tipping it at the same Once the passengers were safe, the