The film is based on a story by Amy Sorlie and stars Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, and Ralph Brown.

Once dubbed "the shark whisperer", Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back into the water.

Battling her self-doubts and fear, Kate accepts the proposal and sets a course for the world's deadliest feeding ground, "Shark Alley".

Production began in July 2010 in False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, and shot for six weeks on a small boat with real great white sharks.

The site's critical consensus reads: "Shallow and brackish, Dark Tide fails to rise".