A year after handsome diving instruction on Mauritius Jackson is stood up by London PR executive Sara, who sneaked out at the pub, she's back on the island for her best friend's wedding. After initially hiding from him, she finds him cool and they spend the night together. She sneaks out again, rushing to he wedding on neighboring island Rodriguez, misses the only ferry but by a hair makes the only airplane flight, by local pilot Freddy Wyman, an old friend. It turns out Jackson already booked a flight. Freddy insists to let her try flying, as he once gave her basic instructions, but gets a cardiac arrests and dies, having turned off the auto-pilot. Jackson pushes her to take the wheel, as communications and navigation equipment are badly damaged. A storm causes more damage and disorientation. he climbs out to fix a fuel leak, but incurs a broken arm and they lost too much fuel, so she climbs out to fill up with the crate pf rum on board. Last minute they reach a sand bank, well crash close enough to swim to it, but it floods at rising tide and they spot a shark, and have little hope to get helped. Written by KGF Vissers