: After losing his hand in a fight with a shark, the pilot again decides to earn money by shooting sea predators, again exposes his son, who saved him last time, to new tests, and he almost dies.
The Shark Cage is a continuation of James Aldridge’s last inch.
Having survived the attack of sharks, pilot Ben Amino loses his left hand from the elbow itself. He miraculously manages to escape, but an even greater miracle is performed by his son Davy - the boy with his unconscious father flies to Cairo on the small Oster plane, controlling it for the first time in his life.
To lose an arm or leg is to catch a glimpse into the eyes of death.
Only in the hospital, having regained consciousness, does Ben understand what endurance a ten-year-old boy had to show. A man wants to break the wall of misunderstanding, always standing between them, but knows that it will not be easy.
Needing money, Ben is about to return to where he lost his hand - to Shark Bay. The film company pays good money for shots with sharks and giant stingrays, so Ben does not doubt for a second the need to shoot the film, but Davy is afraid to transfer this test again. His father reassures him and promises that this time everything will be different.
After leaving the hospital eight months later, Ben Amino orders a cage from the blacksmith according to his drawings. The design comes out too bulky, and even when disassembled, it does not fit on the plane. The only way out is to snap along the fuselage.A familiar Egyptian mechanic tells Ben that this is too dangerous, and offers to transport it on another Beechcraft plane. Ben and his son make a difficult flight with a very difficult, but safe landing.
But, having read the horror memorable in the eyes of the boy, he asked himself whether he had acted correctly by dragging the child to the place where he had already suffered so much fear.
In the morning, with the help of his son, Ben pushes the cage collected the day before into the water and plunges. The boy, meanwhile, is reading a book from the school library about the adventures of a pilot fighting with Arabs in North Africa.
Donkey meat bait, which Ben prudently took with him, does its job - sharks appear suddenly. In a cage, a man feels safe. He shoots until the film ends in the camera.
Emerging to the surface, Ben tells his son to pack, and he dives again - the last one. Finally, he decides to shoot a stingray too. Indeed, luck smiles at him - a gang of monstrous dimensions appears to his gaze. He swims very close to the person in the cage and breaks the rope. Ben fears that the ramp will drag the cage into the open ocean, but the ramp is freed from the rope and floats away.
The overturned cage is pressed by the door to the bottom, and Ben cannot get out. All attempts fail. He has air left for twenty minutes. It is not possible to unscrew the bolts holding the cage. Attempting to lift a cage with an airplane also fails. Then Davy, despite the napping sharks at the bottom, goes scuba diving underwater, and he manages to open the cage, using the rock as a block. Miraculously avoiding death from shark teeth, Ben finds himself on a safe shore with his son.
He left the camera at the bottom.The gunpowder would have come back for her, but on the other side of the scales lies too much - Ben realizes that he will never again expose his son to such terrible trials.
