Shark Week, television’s longest running and most anticipated summer event returns to Discovery Channel on Sunday with the most hours of shark programming in its 28-year history. ADVERTISING Shark Week, television’s longest running and most anticipated summer event returns to
Shark Week, television’s longest running and most anticipated summer event returns to Discovery Channel on Sunday with the most hours of shark programming in its 28-year history.
Seventy years ago, what is believed to be the largest shark ever caught in the world was landed off the Cuban coast, a 21-foot great white shark named “El Monstruo.” “Tiburones: The Sharks of Cuba” marks a first-ever for Shark Week with an expedition in Cuba that unites American and Cuban scientists to answer the question: Do large sharks still exist in this relatively unexplored area of the world? Filmmaker Ian Shive and a team of shark researchers headed to Havana earlier this year in an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding El Monstruo while simultaneously conducting a massive expedition to the north and south coasts of Cuba, including areas previously unexplored. Shive and his team for the first time ever satellite tag sharks in Cuba including a rare species of shark.
“Shark Planet” captures spectacular all-new footage of shark behavior, delving into how they hunt as well as their social lives, courtship and growing up. With more than 13 shark species filmed across the globe in the latest 4K and high-speed camera technology, Shark Planet (WT), a BBC co-production, reveals the global world of the shark rarely seen before with the most up to date technology.
“Alien Sharks: Close Encounter” is the third installment in the Shark Week fan favorite series, “Alien Sharks.” This year, shark researcher and scientist Paul Clerkin heads back into the deepest and darkest unexplored oceans armed with the newest technologies available to get as close as possible to some of the most incredible and unusual sharks on the planet, rarely seen on film. In a first ever, a 20-foot mega mouth shark is tagged with a pop-up satellite tag, filmed off the eastern coast of Taiwan.
“Shark Trek” features Greg Skomal, Massachusetts’ senior marine fisheries marine biologist, as he tags great white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod and attempts to determine theirswim patterns once they leave the Massachusetts coast. As patterns point to the southern U.S., Skomal tries to determine why the Florida coast is the new great white shark hotspot in the Atlantic.
Mako sharks are the fastest of all species of sharks in the world. They live in warm waters, colder temperatures, in the depths of the ocean and close to shore in shallow waters. However, little is known about the large mako sharks that live in the Gulf of Mexico. In “Monster Mako,” Shark Week explores this area as scientists outfit a mako with cameras in order to unlock and reveal the mysteries of their swift, immediate and unseen world.
“Island of the Mega Shark” follows famed shark experts Jeff Kurr, Andy Casagrande and Dickie Chivell as they travel to the volcanic Pacific island of Guadalupe, off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, home to some of the largest Great White sharks on earth. Kerr, Casagrande and Chivell search for one of the largest Great White sharks ever recorded with new technologies and innovative methods.
“Return of the Great White Serial Killer” seeks to find answers for a series of great white shark attacks that have occurred with clocklike precision at the same beach, in the same month, every two years. The location is Surf Beach, Calilf., and the last two attacks in 2010 and 2012 were faltal. Shark expert Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillian seek answers to the main questions in this case — is the same shark responsible for the previous attacks, will there be more attacks, and why?
In “Sharks of the Shadowland,” divers in New Zealand for the very first time tag a sevengill shark as they are charged with protecting and saving a pristine underwater environment, home to this species of shark that has seven gills versus five. The shark remains somewhat of a mystery and a team of shark experts are on a mission to find out how they hunt and more importantly how to better understand their behaviors and prevent shark attacks.
“Shark Island” explores the latest in a string of deadly bull shark attacks. Shark experts are in a race to determine what is causing so many attacks, and how to stop them.
“Shark After Dark” will return for its third consecutive year with an all-new host, award-winning film director, producer, writer and actor Eli Roth (“Inglourious Basterds,” “The Green Inferno,” and “Knock Knock,” among other projects).
Additional Shark Week 2015 programming will include “Bride of Jaws,” which searches for Joan of Shark, the largest female great white shark ever tagged; “Super Predator,” which explores a deep sea trench in Australia that is home to a super predator large enough to take on a great white shark; and “Ninja Sharks” that explores six sharks with unique adaptations that have evolved over millions of years making them the most lethal hunters in the sea. Also this year is “Shark Clans,” featuring Rodney Fox and his team as they dive with, tag and track great white shark clans moving ever closer to Australia’s shores and “Sharksanity 2,” which takes a look at the most insane bites, strikes and close calls from Shark Week as viewers rank their favorite viral shark clips.
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