No, neither 47 Meters Down nor its sequel, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, are based on a true story. In the first movie, sisters Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt) take a vacation in Mexico and decide to go cage diving, hoping to catch a glimpse of the local sea life.
Considering shark and cage diving dreams are finding their ways onto bucket lists, thanks to Shark Week, it's important to remember that movies like 47 Meters Down rely on fiction rather than the truth.
At 47 meters even an experienced diver with a fantastic air consumption rate would quickly drain their scuba cylinder, probably in less than 20 minutes. An inexperienced diver swimming, talking and being harassed by sharks MIGHT make it five minutes at that depth.
However, though the plot may very well be loosely based on similar stories when it comes to the specific story of Lisa and Kate fighting for their lives in Mexico's waters, the project isn't actually based on any true survival stories.
Roberts has confirmed his story was entirely made up, though it may have been inspired by some shark attacks that have occurred in Mexico. However, the story and characters were not real. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged seems to be more Jaws-inspired and less Soul Surfer.
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How deep is 154 feet in the ocean?
47 meters is equivalent to 154 feet 3 1/2 inches . The average depth of ALL the oceans world wide is 3688 meters so the 47 meters is 1.27% of the average depth of all the oceans ! It's 47 meters deep.
Was 47 Meters Down: Uncaged actually filmed underwater?
The underwater scenes were captured back in the UK at Basildon and the legendary, Pinewood Studios. “When we shot it in Pinewood, my trailer would look out on all the Star Wars stuff,” recalls Director Johannes Roberts with a child-like grin. “We had both underwater stages at Pinewood and Basildon.
Lisa is attacked again and when the men finally manage to pull the sisters onto the boat, they see that she has lost half of her leg. It is then revealed that Lisa has been hallucinating due to nitrogen narcosis and that she is still at the bottom of the ocean with her leg pinned under the cage, with Kate gone.
But if a diver rises too quickly, the nitrogen forms bubbles in the body. This can cause tissue and nerve damage. In extreme cases, it can cause paralysis or death if the bubbles are in the brain. Nitrogen narcosis.
Some part of the swimmer must break the surface of the water throughout the race, except it is permissible for the swimmer to be completely submerged during the turn and for a distance of not more than 15 meters (16.4 yards) after the start and after each turn.
Factual errors. The speed at which the girls fell in the cage would probably have burst their eardrums. This is because they did not appear to equalize once and it would have been very difficult for them to do so effectively wearing a full face mask.
In the reality of 47 Meters Down's ending, Kate is shark bait. She's dead. Lisa survives. But at least for a moment, Lisa got the happy ending we wished for her and her sister.
The two reunite with the other girls, who came looking for her. They realize the shark is blind, having evolved within the caves, and they are able to distract the shark with sounds and make their escape.
Moore: We were never more than 20 feet deep. Still pretty deep, though. We would go until our tanks ran out, which, depending on how much we were exerting ourselves, could be an hour to an hour and a half. Once you go down to shoot, you're down there.
47 Meters Down doesn't take its terrifying premise quite as far as it should, but its toothy antagonists still offer a few thrills for less demanding genre enthusiasts.
I've tried to do research into why the ending was changed, but all I found was an interview with the director saying that a cut of the film with that ending exists, but it was scrapped because he and the producers thought it was too bleak.
Tiger sharks are considered dangerous because this shark species is responsible for more shark bite incidents than most other shark species. However, sharks rarely bite humans, and the risk of ever being bitten by a shark is extremely low. Sharks are not an immediate threat to divers.
Globally it has been estimated that all white sharks number around 3000-5000, with perhaps 1500 in our population in the Northeast Pacific. At any one point there may be only a score or so of these adult sharks around the feeding areas, which is not many and makes them vulnerable to habitat loss, pollution or poaching.
The people on the boat pull Mia in before another shark can get her, (By the end, Mia and Sasha are remaining survivors after being an dreadful experience). The girls receive medical attention, but Mia and Sasha are just glad that they still have each other.
No, neither 47 Meters Down nor its sequel, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, are based on a true story. In the first movie, sisters Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt) take a vacation in Mexico and decide to go cage diving, hoping to catch a glimpse of the local sea life.
Do the two sisters survive in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged?
At the end of 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Mia and Sasha are the only surviving members of the group of seven who go down to see the underwater ruins. The sisters find an undiscovered passage that leads out of the caves and up to the surface.
