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''Open Water 3'' (subtitled: ''Cage Dive'') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Jeff's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.

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''Open Water 3'' (subtitled: ''Cage Dive'') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open ''Film/{{Adrift|2006}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Jeff's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.



* InNameOnly: The movie was marketed as a sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}'', but apart from the lost at sea theme, it has no connection to them.

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* InNameOnly: The movie was marketed as a sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}'', ''Film/{{Adrift|2006}}'', but apart from the lost at sea theme, it has no connection to them.
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'''Open Water 3''' (subtitled: '''Cage Dive''') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Jeff's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.

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'''Open ''Open Water 3''' 3'' (subtitled: '''Cage Dive''') ''Cage Dive'') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Jeff's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happened to most of the other people on the boat, though a news report mentions some were rescued and some died.
* YourCheatingHeart: Megan is also having an affair with Josh. This unintentionally comes out when they are all bickering in the water.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happened to most of the other people on the boat, though a news report mentions some were rescued and some died. \n* YourCheatingHeart: Megan is also having an affair with Josh. This unintentionally comes out when they are all bickering in the water.
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* TheCameo: Australian newscasters Chris Bath and Robert Ovadia appear [[AsHimself as themselves]].
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* LoveTriangle: Jeff, Josh and Megan, though Jeff isn't aware he's in one until near the end.

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* AlliterativeFamily: Jeff and Josh.



* FailedASpotCheck: Sometimes they forget that the camera is still on and it records things they probably didn't intend to.



** They come across a chest containing a life raft and some provisions.

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** They get a big one when they come across a chest containing a life raft and some provisions.



* IdiotBall: Megan and Josh fighting over a flare while inside their raft goes about as well as you'd expect.
* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Brother]]: Jeff declares this after he finds out about Josh's affair with Megan.



* MaleGaze: When Jeff and Josh are filming, they spend a lot of time focusing on Megan's chest, legs and butt.



* ThePeepingTom: Josh hides the camera in the bathroom, hoping to record Megan taking a shower. The battery runs out at the crucial moment.



* ThePeepingTom: Josh hides the camera in the bathroom, hoping to record Megan taking a shower. The battery runs out at the crucial moment.

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* ThePeepingTom: Josh hides the camera SayingTooMuch: During their argument in the bathroom, hoping to record water, Josh accuses Megan taking a shower. The battery runs out at the crucial moment.of lying to Jeff. This leads Jeff to realise that they're having an affair.
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'''Open Water 3''' (subtitled: '''Cage Dive''') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Josh's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.

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'''Open Water 3''' (subtitled: '''Cage Dive''') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Josh's Jeff's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.
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'''Open Water 3''' (subtitled: '''Cage Dive''') is a 2017 survival horror and an InNameOnly sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}''[=/=]''Open Water 2''. Part FoundFootage, part {{Mockumentary}}, it focuses on a group of Americans, brothers Jeff and Josh, and Josh's girlfriend Megan, who visit Australia to go cage diving with sharks. Things go awry when a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom sudden tidal wave]] destroys their boat and they find themselves alone in shark-infested waters.

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* ChekhovsGun: On a couple of occasions, it is mentioned that Jeff needs to take medication for a heart condition. [[spoiler:He gets progressively weaker in the water and eventually succumbs to the condition, due to the lack of medication.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Jeff, Josh and Megan all die.]]
* FoundFootage: A week after the incident, a diver finds their camera and posts the footage online.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: One of these destroys their boat.
* HopeSpot:
** They come across a chest containing a life raft and some provisions.
** Josh spots a helicopter flying overhead, [[spoiler:but he gets attacked and killed by a shark moments later.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with a television news report about a boat that was hit by a tidal wave and the search for three missing tourists. The rest of the movie shows how it happened.
* InNameOnly: The movie was marketed as a sequel to ''Film/OpenWater'' and ''Film/{{Adrift}}'', but apart from the lost at sea theme, it has no connection to them.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: The camera gets left on and records Josh and Megan kissing. Jeff misses it when he is playing back the footage because he is turned away from the screen talking to Josh.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The trio are reasonably safe in their life raft, until a fight between Megan and Josh over a flare results in them accidentally destroying the raft (and killing the girl they just rescued from the water).
* RealityTelevision: The reason they are filming their vacation is because it is also going to be an audition tape for an extreme reality TV show.
* ThePeepingTom: Josh hides the camera in the bathroom, hoping to record Megan taking a shower. The battery runs out at the crucial moment.
* ThreateningShark: Doesn't get much worse than being stuck in the water with a bunch of great whites in the vicinity, although the disaster that destroys their boat is nothing to do with the sharks.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happened to most of the other people on the boat, though a news report mentions some were rescued and some died.
* YourCheatingHeart: Megan is also having an affair with Josh. This unintentionally comes out when they are all bickering in the water.

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