Red Abalone Crash

An unlicensed, black-market abalone diver, Delta finds herself haunted by the past and hunted in the present. When Lyn, her older sister, disappears during a dive Delta must confront her worst fears in order to discover her sister’s fate and solve the mystery of who or what is stalking her.

Synopsis:

Delta, a 26-year-old scuba diver, drifts gently through a giant sea kelp forest. A small, mobile shark cage hangs nearby, with a large net suspended below it, holding her illegal catch. Red abalone easily sells for $75 a pound, at current black market street rates, due in no small part to decreasing numbers of the mollusk caused by overfishing, illegal poaching, and the ocean’s rising acidity rates. Not my problem she thinks. An annual
Lyn is pushing her out of the car in front of a drug rehabilitation center. Delta walks inside with her wetsuit still damp, interrupting a meeting in progress. Slowly turning around in a circle she greets the gawking audience and tells them that her name is Delta. Suddenly the group is urging Delta to speak about her challenges with addiction. Her nose continues to bleed. She openly reveals to her audience how a few years earlier she had accidentally killed her mother and father in a car accident, on their way to this very rehab center. In a panic, after finding out where she was going, she had grabbed the steering wheel and caused the car to drive off the road, plummeting into the ocean. The group politely applauds at the story’s conclusion and thanks her for her honesty, but the Head Counselor pulls her aside and reminds Delta that her payment for treatment is long overdue. Delta asks for another extension and is given until the end of the week. Walking out of the meeting, Delta suddenly becomes dizzy again and
Now Delta hears Lyn’s voice in the darkness and starts to search for her sister. Finding her in a twisted metal cage, Delta tries to free her and at the same time warn her of the many sharks in the area. Delta finds that it is impossible to free Lyn.

Too much for Delta to handle, she curls up into a fetal position on the seafloor. Suddenly Lyn is by her side and encouraging her to fight back against the dark shadows. Delta begins stuffing abalone into her parents’ gaping mouths, but the sharp shells are too large and cause great cuts to appear in their faces. The blood starts to attract more sharks to the area. Then Lyn’s body turns a paler shade of white as a huge gash appears in her side and her eyes turn lifeless as any shark’s eye now circling Delta.

Lyn’s body appears to have been dead for a very long time. Delta finally lets go of Lyn and floats slowly back up to the surface through the circling Great Whites, limp as a jelly-fish, she opens her eyes. She blinks away salty tears and finds herself standing in front of three tombstones. She turns on her heal and stumbles