Shark Week
Celebrating its 29th anniversary, SHARK WEEK delivers all-new groundbreaking shark stories incorporating research technology to reveal insight on some of the most unique shark species. This year, the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps makes a splash with the most interesting race of his career, and gets schooled on everything ‘shark’ at the Bimini Shark Lab.
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Celebrating its 29th anniversary, SHARK WEEK delivers all-new groundbreaking shark stories incorporating research technology to reveal insight on some of the most unique shark species. This year, the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps makes a splash with the most interesting race of his career, and gets schooled on everything ‘shark’ at the Bimini Shark Lab.
Episodes
Sharktacular 2017
Season 29, Episode 1 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
The must-see survival guide to Shark Week, featuring exclusive sneak peeks, viral videos, and the greatest sharks in Shark Week history.
Great White Serial Killer Lives
Season 29, Episode 2 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White
Season 29, Episode 3 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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!
Shark - Croc Showdown
Season 29, Episode 4 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
Shark Week's Paul de Gelder teams up with Dr. Mark Meekan to travel to the sharkiest places in the world, Cobourg Peninsula in Northern Australia. They want to know what happens when 14-foot crocodiles moves into shark infested waters?
Great Hammerhead Invasion
Season 29, Episode 5 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Shark Vortex
Season 29, Episode 6 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Return to the Isle of Jaws
Season 29, Episode 7 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins
Season 29, Episode 8 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Sharks and the City: LA
Season 29, Episode 9 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Sharks and the City: New York
Season 29, Episode 10 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
The Lost Cage
Season 29, Episode 11 TV-PG CC HD CC SD
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?
Devil Sharks
Season 29, Episode 12 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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?
Shark Exile
Season 29, Episode 13 TV-PG CC HD CC SD
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?
Shark Storm
Season 29, Episode 14 TV-PG CC HD CC SD
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.
African Shark Safari
Season 29, Episode 15 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Lair of the Sawfish
Season 29, Episode 16 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Sharkmania 2017
Season 29, Episode 17 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Shark School with Michael Phelps
Season 29, Episode 18 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
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.
Additional information
Networks
Discovery ChannelNetworks
Audio
EnglishAudio
Subtitles
English (CC)Subtitles
Released year
2017Released year
Age rating
Genres
Action/AdventureReality TV
Genres
Reality TV
Duration
18 episodes (12 h 35 min)Duration
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