Shark Week

1987
4.5
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2017 episodes (24)

1 Sharktacular 2017
7/9/17
The must-see survival guide to Shark Week, featuring exclusive sneak peeks, viral videos, and the greatest sharks in Shark Week history.
2 Great White Serial Killer Lives
7/9/17
Every two years off the coast of California, a scene of great white attacks occur. Could it be the same shark again and again? Dr. Michael Domeier returns to Shark Week with experts Ralph Collier and Cal Lutheran to find the answer once and for all.
3 Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White
7/23/17
Sharks, the world's fastest and most efficient predators. Michael Phelps, our greatest champion to ever get in the water. A Shark Week first brings an event so monumental, no one has ever attempted it before. Phelps vs Shark - the race is on!
4 Shark - Croc Showdown
7/9/17
Season-only
Shark Week's Paul de Gelder teams up with Dr. Mark Meekan to travel to the sharkiest places in the world, Cobourg Penninsula in Northern Australia. They want to know what happens when 14-foot crocodiles moves into shark infested waters?
5 Great Hammerhead Invasion
7/23/17
Early November, pregnant giant hammerheads arrive off Bimini, in the Bahamas and Shark Week's Dr. Tristan Guttridge wants to know why? And he and his team even perform the world's first ever ultrasound on hammerheads to find the answers.
6 Shark Vortex
7/24/17
Greg Skomal and Joe Remeiro return to Shark Week to study the area that brings thirty species of sharks, the Gulf Stream. They will focus on three sharks that can out-swim, out-think, and out-compete all the others makos, great whites, and porbeagles.
7 Return to the Isle of Jaws
7/24/17
Paul De Gelder returns to Shark Week with Dr. Jonathan Werry and Andy Casagrande to unlock the mysteries of the new great white hotspot, Isle of Jaws. And on their journey, they make a startling discovery that causes them to re-think everything.
8 Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins
7/24/17
Alien Sharks is back on Shark Week to find the strangest shark in the waters. Dr. Craig O'Connoll travels to the Bass Strait for sawsharks, while Victoria Elena Vasquez and Dr. David Ebert go into deep water in Tokyo Bay to find the goblin shark.
9 Sharks and the City: LA
7/25/17
Season-only
Along the coastline of LA, great white sharks are increasing and they seem to be hunting out of season. Dr. Chris Lowe returns to Shark Week to find out why. His investigation takes him to Guadalupe Island, off Mexico, where he finds the answer.
10 Sharks and the City: New York
7/25/17
Season-only
For decades, great white numbers were declining in the waters around New York but now the seals are back! Are the great whites far behind? Shark Week's Dr. Craig O'Connell tries to find the answers and shows the future with great whites in New York.
11 The Lost Cage
7/26/17
Shark Week sends underwater cameraman Devin Massyn with a team of explorers to float in a one-of-a-kind shark cage, 500 miles into the Gulf of Mexico. Acting as human lures in the open ocean will they encounter its deadliest predator?
12 Devil Sharks
7/26/17
Across the world, sharks congregate and concentrate around volcanoes and volcanic islands. This year on Shark Week, Dr. Mike Heithaus dives several volcanoes to find out why they are shark hotspots?
13 Shark Exile
7/27/17
Dr. Hazin appears on Shark Week for the first-time by traveling to Brazil to reduce the number of shark attacks by simply catching and moving sharks to the open sea. What's his secret? And can this solution work in Australia, where attacks are a problem?
14 Shark Storm
7/27/17
Ornella Weideli returns to Shark Week with Dr. Tristan Guttridge to find out why sharks come together at various times of the year and in different locations around the world to socialize, hunt, swarm, and spiral.
15 African Shark Safari
7/28/17
Shark Week goes to Madagascar, a place NOT known for great white sharks. So why has a great white from South Africa made the 1500-mile trip? Craig O'Connell and the team make the trip to find out why and if this is the next great water hotspot.
16 Lair of the Sawfish
7/28/17
Luke Tipple returns to Shark Week with his team to unravel the mystery behind one of the strangest creatures, the sawfish. They set out on the most dangerous dive to help bring this rare creature back from the brink of extinction.
17 Sharkmania 2017
7/29/17
The ultimate rundown of the greatest moments from Shark Week 2017, featuring the closest calls, biggest bites, greatest gadgets, and viewers' top picks for the best of Shark Week history.
18 Shark School with Michael Phelps
7/30/17
Michael Phelps travels to Bimini Shark Lab to visit Shark Week veteran Doc Gruber and Dr. Tristan Gutteridge to learn everything 'shark'. They teach him the myths, misconceptions and how to safely dive even when a hammerhead swims three feet from his face.
101 Sharktacular - Top Home Videos
7/24/17
Season-only
Take a look at some of the top home shark videos!
102 Shark After Dark: Off to the Races
7/23/17
Season-only
Tony Hale & shark cinematographer Joe Romeiro discuss Michael Phelps' race against a great white shark. Plus, see how sharks measure up in a game that proves size does matter!
103 Shark After Dark: Stranger Fins
7/24/17
Season-only
Comedian Anthony Jeselnik and marine biologist Vicky Vasquez chat goblin sharks & other sea oddities and put Jeselnik's shark IQ to the ultimate test.
104 Shark After Dark: Going Coastal
7/25/17
Season-only
Comedian Chris Hardwick, actress Regina Hall & marine biologist Craig O'Connell weigh in on the battle between east and west coast sharks. Plus, Eli debunks the web's most viral shark videos.
105 Shark After Dark: Naked and Not Afraid Sharks
7/26/17
Season-only
Musician Moby is joined by Naked and Afraid fan favorites Cory Williams and Anastasia Ashley to talk survival tactics & shark species! Plus, filmmaker Devon Massyn talks the dangers of shooting sharks in the wild.
106 Shark After Dark: The Sharkiest Place on Earth
7/27/17
Season-only
Oscar-winning actress & producer Charlize Theron & veteran shark week cinematographer Andy Casagrande share stories of the 'sharkiest' place on earth before answering shark week fan questions!

About this show

Discovery Channel's Shark Week exposes you to the incredible truths about sharks as perfect predatory machines. Understand more about the world's deadliest marine hunters and why they've survived for millions of years. Shark Week tells you everything you want to know about sharks and their world.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
2.21K reviews
David Illustrato
August 7, 2013
So disappointed with Discovery for this mockumentary. I watch Shark Week to learn about and see true stories about sharks, not watch made up drivel passed off as real to fool people. Its irresponsible of Discovery to pass this show off as fact, even with the pre-show "disclaimer" that most people missed. Ill watch Syfy to get my fake shark movies...keep Discovery for the real facts.
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Terry Kennedy
June 29, 2016
After the last 2 years' mockumentaries on the megalodon where actors falsely portrayed scientists and biologists and lied their asses off and used false info and made up incidents and did it to gain greater ratings, I don't trust anything Discovery puts out anymore. Gang of liars. Discovery has lost a lot of respect and credibility and now they've come up with even more lies and rip offs to deceive their viewers. Nobody wants fairytales and crackpipe theories: WE WANT TRUTH AND GENUINE TRUE EVIDENCE,..
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Laurietta Oakleaf
August 14, 2014
I have loved this show since it came out. It has helped bring get out awareness for sharks and to let people learn and start to see them as beautiful, majestic creatures of the ocean. Rather than the stereotype that they had been given for so many years. This show is just getting better with time and over the years. Plus as more research and more people are starting to want to know more and see more, there is now and eagerness to want to learn about these amazing animals.
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