By Lauren Ferri For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 13:01 GMT, 2 March 2019 | Updated: 13:02 GMT, 2 March 2019
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A group of fishermen are lucky to be alive after a fishing rod attached to their boat was struck by lightning while they were out at sea.
Kim Ford and his two friends departed from Broome's coast in Western Australia's north on Saturday morning in a six-metre aluminum boat.
The trio were excited to go fishing after days of bad weather, but as they sat out at sea they noticed a storm was developing on the mainland.
Mr Ford told the ABC that they had seen a small weather system brewing on the coast but decided to wait for the storm to pass.
Kim Ford and his two friends departed from Broome's coast in Western Australia's north on Saturday morning in a six metre aluminum boat (pictured)
Thinking it would pass between 20 to 30 minutes, but it didn't.
The group began to worry when they could no longer see as the storm became so ferocious and the lightning surrounded the group.
The storm was so strong the fishermen couldn't get their lifejackets out of storage.
Mr Ford and his friends
