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First Aired: July 17th, 1988
Status: Continuing
Network: Discovery
Summary: The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
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Season 2018
Episode 1: Shark Week's 50 Best Bites
Air Date: July 15th, 2018
Summary: It's Shark Week's 30th anniversary celebrate with familiar faces like Craig Ferguson, Tracy Morgan, Andy Samberg and more as we count down the 50 GREATEST SHARK WEEK MOMENTS of all time!
Episode 2: Bear vs. Shark
Air Date: July 22nd, 2018
Summary: Bear Grylls has survived the most extreme environments, and now he's back for Shark Week 30th anniversary to test his wits and skills as he faces off with the ocean's apex predators -- sharks!
Episode 3: Shaq Does Shark Week
Air Date: July 22nd, 2018
Summary: Shaq accidentally signed himself up to be thrust into the teeth of Shark Week's 30th anniversary, but he doesn't do sharks. To overcome his fear, he trains with ex-Navy and Marine comedian Rob Riggle for the big plunge.
Episode 4: Ronda Rousey Uncaged
Air Date: July 22nd, 2018
Summary: Olympian and UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey gets help from Paul De Gelder to train through three rounds of survival training against heavyweight opponents the Bull sharks, all building to a historic "Main Event"... swimming UNCAGED with Mako sharks!
Episode 5: Monster Tag
Air Date: July 23rd, 2018
Summary: In this thrilling and urgent Shark Week special, Aaron Rogers, Lindsey Vonn, and Robert Gronkowski join forces with shark scientists to learn crucial information about shark populations and how to save our ocean's top predators.
Episode 6: Great White Abyss
Air Date: July 23rd, 2018
Summary: Dr. Mauricio Hoyos and shark experts Jimi Partington and Brandon McMillan embark on the first manned expedition to the darkest depths of the sea floor off Guadalupe Island, in search of the notorious 20-foot-long great white shark, Deep Blue.
Episode 7: Cuba's Secret Shark Lair
Air Date: July 23rd, 2018
Summary: In 1945, one of the largest sharks ever recorded was captured in Cuban waters, a great white named 'El Monstruo.' Two teams of researchers divide and conquer in search of Cuba's massive great hammerhead in 'The Queen' and 'El Monstruo'-sized great white.
Episode 8: Guy Fieri's feeding Frenzy
Air Date: July 24th, 2018
Summary: Shark Week teams up with Guy Fieri and his son, Hunter, in the Bahamas to experience local cuisine and explore and understand what makes the waters around these islands the ideal all-you-can-eat buffet for such a wide variety of shark species.
Episode 9: Laws of Jaws
Air Date: July 24th, 2018
Summary: Shark attacks are on the rise! Is it the shark's behavior or our own? To test this theory expert divers Liz Parkinson, Mike Dornellas and Nick LeBeouf team up with Andy Casagrande to recreate real-life scenarios for answers and teach us the LAWS OF JAWS.
Episode 10: Air Jaws: The Hunted
Air Date: July 24th, 2018
Summary: In 2017, five great whites washed up dead on the beaches in South Africa. Shark Expert Alison Towner believes they were eaten alive. She teams up with Chris Fallows and Andy Casagrande to find out who killed them and how to save the species in the future.
Episode 11: Air Jaws: Back From the Dead
Air Date: July 25th, 2018
Summary: After visiting the shores of South Africa to watch great white sharks preying on seals 17 years ago, Jeff Kurr and Chris Fallows are back together again to discover how the great whites in New Zealand go after their kills.
Episode 12: Shark Tank Meets Shark Week
Air Date: July 25th, 2018
Summary: The renowned sharks of ABC’s popular series will join in on the Shark Week fun for the first time ever while deciding whose shark conversation project is worth a $50,000 donation.
Episode 13: Sharkcam Stakeout
Air Date: July 25th, 2018
Summary: Dr. Greg Skomal and the Woods Hole team join forces with Doc Gruber and Dr. Tristan Gutteridge to study the hunting and feeding habits of bulls and hammerhead sharks living in the Bahamian waters.
Episode 14: Sharkcam Strikes Back
Air Date: July 26th, 2018
Summary: The Woods Hole team remembers all the fascinating shark discoveries they’ve made over the last six years.
Episode 15: Sharkwrecked
Air Date: July 26th, 2018
Summary: Watch as Paul de Gelder and James Glancy spend 48 hours shipwrecked in shark-infested waters with no food.
Episode 16: Tiger Shark Invasion
Air Date: July 26th, 2018
Summary: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and Joe Romeiro visit the Galapagos to study tiger sharks and learn how the fish helped repopulate the islands’ surrounding waters.
Episode 17: Cash Cab Shark Week Edition
Air Date: July 27th, 2018
Summary: Cash Cab host Ben puts a few sailors and nautical experts in the hot seat as they answer shark and sea-related questions in pursuit of winning a cash prize.
Episode 18: Megalodon: Fact Vs. Fiction
Air Date: July 27th, 2018
Summary: Scientists and experts share their thoughts on how Megalodon, the big-tooth prehistoric shark that lived some 26 million years ago, would have existed in today’s waters.
Episode 19: Bloodline: Spawn of Jaws
Air Date: July 27th, 2018
Summary: Dr. Craige O’Connell investigates the sharks off the coast to Long Island in effort to determine if any of the great whites are related to the natural born killers that inspired the blockbuster hit Jaws.
Episode 20: Great White Shark Babies
Air Date: July 27th, 2018
Summary: Dr. Mauricio Hoyos and researched Michelle Jewell and Toby Daly-Engel take a trip to Guadalupe to determine the birthing habitats of pregnant great whites.
Episode 21: Return of the Mega Shark
Air Date: July 28th, 2018
Summary: Researchers go to New Zealand to look for giant great white sharks lurking in deep water off the coast and revisit the most exciting events and discoveries from the past to help guide their search.
Episode 22: Sharks Gone Wild
Air Date: July 28th, 2018
Summary: A look at everything that has happened in the world of sharks this year -- the unbelievable viral videos, the biggest news stories, and the latest cutting-edge shark science.
Episode 23: Naked and Afraid of Sharks
Air Date: July 29th, 2018
Summary: Stranded on a barren island in the middle of the most shark-infested waters on earth, five Naked and Afraid all-stars must survive for 14 days, exclusively on what the ocean provides.
Episode 99: Ridiculous Cakes: 30th Anniversary of Shark Week
Air Date: July 16th, 2018
Summary: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of "Shark Week" with a 4-foot-tall cake; the hunt for Bigfoot leads to a sweet encounter for a Seattle cake artist; an entire cake is decorated with only buttercream frosting.
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