A group watching sharks from the safety of a cage had a close encounter when a great white shark gets stuck inside their cage.

While diving in Guadalupe Island, a great white shark known as “Milana Arnone” entered a shark cage containing a number of divers. The shark had approached their cage and bit into their air tank, releasing a cloud of air bubbles into the shark’s mouth. Possibly disoriented, the shark circled back and found itself headfirst in the top of the cage.

Unable to swim backwards, the great white shark became stuck in the cage with the divers. Luckily, the dive master was able to signal the crew on the boat that there was a problem and the cage needed to be raised. With the cage raised, the divers had no other choice but to escape by maneuvering around the giant shark and to the surface where the crew could help pull them aboard.

Two videos were recorded of the event. One from a nearby dive cage and the other from inside the cage with the shark.

All divers were able to make it aboard the boat safely.

In order to release the trapped shark, the captain and crew had to tie a rope around the tail of the shark and lower the cage back down. They were successful in doing so and the shark was released unharmed.