Four men spent the night perched in mangrove trees to avoid crocodiles after their dinghy overturned on Sunday.
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A helicopter was able to rescue them during a break in the weather on Monday morning.
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Police say they are lucky to be alive, and should never have gone fishing in such bad weather.
A Dornier search aircraft, send to find them from Darwin, had had to turn back because of the storms.