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Shark Week
Discovery Documentary
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Shark Week is an annual, week-long TV programming block created by Tom Golden at the Discovery Channel, which features shark-based programming. Shark Week originally premiered on July 17, 1988.
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17 this season · 355 totals2017e01 Great White Serial Killer Lives 2017-07-23 23:00
Great White Serial Killer Lives
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.
s2017e02 Phelps vs Shark: Great Gold vs Great White 2017-07-24 00:00
Phelps vs Shark: Great Gold vs Great White
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!
s2017e03 Shark-Croc Showdown 2017-07-24 01:10
Shark-Croc Showdown
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?
s2017e04 Great Hammerhead Invasion 2017-07-24 02:10
s2017e05 Shark Vortex 2017-07-25 00:00
s2017e06 Return to the Isle of Jaws 2017-07-25 01:00
Return to the Isle of Jaws
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.
s2017e07 Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins 2017-07-25 02:00
Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins
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.
s2017e08 Sharks and the City: LA 2017-07-26 01:00
Sharks and the City: LA
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.
s2017e09 Sharks and the City: New York 2017-07-26 02:00
Sharks and the City: New York
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.
s2017e10 The Lost Cage 2017-07-27 01:00
s2017e11 Devil Sharks 2017-07-27 02:00
s2017e12 Shark Exile 2017-07-28 01:00
s2017e13 Shark Storm 2017-07-28 02:00
s2017e14 African Shark Safari 2017-07-29 01:00
s2017e15 Lair of the Sawfish 2017-07-29 02:00
Lair of the Sawfish
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.
s2017e16 Sharkmania 2017-07-30 01:00
s2017e17 Shark School With Michael Phelps 2017-07-31 00:00
Shark School With Michael Phelps
Multi-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps meets Doc Gruber and Tristan Gutteridge from the Bimini shark lab to learn everything there is to know about sharks.