Extraordinarily dramatic footage captures the moment a great white shark got stuck inside a diving cage near Guadalupe island, Mexico, on September 27, in one of a number of remarkable recent incidents involving great whites and cages in the area.

The footage shows the shark approach the cage initially, only to be pushed away by one of the divers inside; the creature returns a moment later, and gets stuck inside.

In a report about the incident, another of the divers present said the shark “bit the air hose that supplies air from the surface to the divers in the cage,” causing bubbles to be seen. One of the divers present, identified as Yann, remedied the situation. After the shark returned and entered the cage, another diver, Katie, managed to descend to la ower section. Yann, stuck in the upper section with the shark, had his regulator knocked out of his mouth, so escaped the cage to get the surface and tell the crew to raise the cage. He then descended, “with only the air in his lungs,” according to the report, to help the others escape.

The cage raised, the crew eventually freed the shark, which swam away. Credit: YouTube/Peter Maguire