#Little girl drifts out to sea on inflatable unicorn, gets rescued by ferry

A young girl sitting on a giant inflatable unicorn was swept out to see by strong currents off the town of Antirio in the Gulf of Corinth on Monday, according to the Greek City Times.

The girl, about 4 or 5 years old, drifted for about a half-mile after escaping her parents’ attention.

When they realized their daughter was missing, the frantic couple informed port officials, who then alerted the captain of the ferry Salaminomachos.

“I was approaching the port of Antirrio and I was notified by the Port Authority that a child, who I did not expect to be so small, had been swept away by the currents on a nearby beach, which is near the port pier,” Capt. Grigoris Karnesis told the news outlet.

The skipper soon caught sight of the bobbing girl and steered his vessel to pluck her and the unicorn out of the water.

“She was frozen from her fear, because the current was very strong. I put the ship in such a position so as not to affect the small buoy,” Karnesis said.

“I placed it in such a way that the ship was not affected by ripples, because if the buoy sank we would have serious problems. We approached it slowly and we were able to rescue the child,” he continued.

The captain added: ““Fortunately, everything went well.”

His crew made funny faces and joked with the girl to calm her and allay her fears before she was reunited with her parents.