Shark After Dark
Thursday at 9pm on Discovery Channel
Sharks are most aggressive and most active in the dark, but the fact is we know very little else about the nocturnal nature of these creatures. (Watch a preview clip.) Now, armed with the latest in infrared thermography cameras and night-vision technology, a team of divers travels around the world and descends into the sharks' dangerous after-dark hunting grounds. Their goal is to learn more about how great whites, six-gills, and tiger sharks behave after the sun goes down.
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Blood in the Water
Sunday at 9pm on Discovery Channel
The true story behind the bloody shark attacks of 1916 that inspired the movie "Jaws." A 9 ft. shark cruises just off the New Jersey beaches. For centuries its ancestors have done exactly the same, but today there's unusual company. Swimming in the sea has recently become popular amongst a species the shark has never encountered in his world before: human beings. For the shark it's a novel feeding opportunity. For the humans it's the beginning of a new relationship between themselves and the ocean, terrifying and fascinating in equal measure. It's the first multiple shark attack in American history, and the reason we fear sharks to this day.
View Photos: Great whites and other predators stalk the seas during "Shark Week."
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Deadly Waters
Monday at 9pm on Discovery Channel
Survivorman's Les Stroud is back for more nail-biting, shark-chomping action, and this time, he's taking on the deadliest waters around the world. His quest is simple: find out which water is the deadliest. Starting from historical data from the Florida Museum Of Natural History's famed "Shark Attack Files," Les will begin his journey to test the waters in the world's sharkiest hotspots. Les will work with a team of experts as he circumnavigates the globe to initiate a series of intense immersive experiments in an effort to determine why those waters are among the deadliest on Earth.
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Day of the Shark 2
Monday at 10pm on Discovery Channel
See what happens when a great white breaks through a 300-lb. aluminum shark cage and traps the divers inside. Another shark tackles a former Navy SEAL in shallow waters off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida. And a bull shark invades a spear-fishing trip in the Bahamas. When you’re a visitor in the vast and complex ocean, any day could be the "Day of the Shark."
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Sharkbite Summer
Tuesday at 9pm on Discovery Channel
A bite-by-bite account of America's notorious "Summer of the Shark" in 2001. (Watch a preview clip.) Were the Ocean's apex predators really taking back America's shores? "Sharkbite Summer" revisits the attack sites and -- using news archive, interviews with victims, witnesses, surgeons, family members, and shark experts -- builds an exact picture of the bloody summer of 2001.
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Great White Appetite
Wednesday at 9pm on Discovery Channel
The great white is one of the most of the most feared predators on earth as well as one of its most efficient hunters. The great white shark patrols the shores of more than 50 percent of the world's inhabited coastlines, and yet, besides the fact that they've killed hundreds of people, we know almost nothing about them. Its incredible appetite is more of a mystery than anything else about the shark. Remarkably, scientists don't have any accurate data on the great white's population, mating, traveling, or even what drives their feeding behavior. Observe firsthand the experiments that let us uncover the great white's unique eating habits. We will travel the globe, stopping at three major feeding grounds –- Seal Island, South Africa; Adelaide, Australia; and Guadalupe Island, Mexico, and administer incredibly visual experiments in an effort to answer this and many other fascinating questions.
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