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The Best Episodes of Shark Week

Every episode of Shark Week ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Shark Week!

The Best Episodes of Shark Week

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...

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  1. 8.6/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood

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    After two fatal Great White shark attacks occurred off a small Mexican fishing village - including one in which a victim was decapitated - shark attack survivor Paul De Gelder joins shark investigator Brandon McMillan and local biologist Gador Mutaner to launch a plan to ID the killers and keep the villagers in the Sea of Cortez safe.

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  2. 8.3/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Caught! When Sharks Attack

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    S37:E15

    For the first time, shark attacks are being caught on video thanks to smartphones. Experts analyze these shark encounters to reveal surprising new insights into their behavior and dangerous warning signs. While some shark attacks may result from foolish behavior—such as someone sticking their hand inside a live shark—the reality is we swim beside sharks every day without even realizing it.

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  3. 8.2/10(77 votes)

    #3 - Air Jaws: Sharks of South Africa

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  4. 8.2/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Perfect Shark

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  5. 8.1/10(42 votes)

    #5 - Great White Attack: A True Story

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  6. 8.0/10(8 votes)

    #6 - Expedition Unknown: Sharks vs. Nazis in Paradise

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    Global adventurer Josh Gates and shark biologist Tristan Guttridge team up with nature's deadliest predator to search for a lost wreck sunk by a Nazi U-Boat during World War II.

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  8. 7.9/10(12 votes)

    #7 - Bull Shark: World's Deadliest Shark

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  9. 7.8/10(9 votes)

    #8 - Sharks Under Glass

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  10. 7.8/10(53 votes)

    #9 - Adrift: 47 Days With Sharks

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    During a routine search and rescue mission over the Pacific in WWII, an American plane crashed into shark-infested waters. This is the inspiring true story of two war heroes — one an Olympian, one a pastor's son — who managed to survive a record-breaking 47 days at sea in a life raft. They subsisted on only the food they were able to catch from the ocean and the water they were able to collect from the rain, all while fighting off a gang of sharks that were their constant companions. But when they finally did reach land, it was only the beginning of their troubles. What happened to these men is one of the greatest tests of faith, will and endurance of our time.

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  11. 7.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Shark House

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  12. 7.8/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Great White Danger Zone

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    Alison Towner and her team investigate a new Great White hotspot off the coast of South Africa. Equipped with cutting-edge fin cameras, tracking tags, and underwater surveillance, researchers unveil unusual behavior in these massive apex predators.

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  13. 7.7/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Ultimate Air Jaws

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    Off the coast of South Africa, massive great white sharks blast from the water, pulling a sneak attack on their seal prey. Shark expert Chris Fallows and filmmaker Jeff Kurr arrive on the scene to investigate the aerial attacks using state-of-the-art technology including an HD camera that shoots in super slow motion - 2,000 frames per second. This enables the team to slow down a breaching shark from one second of real time to almost a minute - and in so much detail you can literally count every tooth in the shark's mouth! Fallows and Kurr also employ a submarine and remotely-operated helicopter to capture this incredible footage.

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  14. 7.7/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Great White Gauntlet

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  15. 7.7/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion

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    Returning to the site of his own 2009 shark attack for the first time, Paul de Gelder joins Madison Stewart to investigate a recent Great White Shark attack that occurred near Sydney Harbor, Australia - the first fatal incident in the region in almost 60 years. The dramatic encounter, which was captured on camera, was the sixth attack to occur in as many weeks. Within this aquatic arena, Great Whites contend with Bull Sharks, Tiger Sharks, and even humans in a colossal battle for supremacy. The unfolding saga raises the compelling question of who will emerge victorious in this intense struggle for dominance.

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  16. 7.6/10(34 votes)

    #15 - How Jaws Changed The World

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    There are very few movies we can honestly say truly changed the world — but Jaws is one of them. Audiences stood in lines that wrapped entire city blocks to watch the world’s first summer blockbuster. Careers were made, fortunes created, and ways of directing and scoring movies and shooting special effects were all changed forever when it was released. But the impact the film had on the oceans and their inhabitants was as big as the audience it found — and just as surprising. In the aftermath of the film's release, great white sharks were vilified and killed, leading to their near-disappearance from the eastern seaboard. At the same time, public fascination with sharks led to a golden age of shark science that completely changed our view of the ocean and how it works. And as the science began showing us how real sharks behave, it spurred a worldwide conservation effort whose earliest champion was Jaws author Peter Benchley.

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  17. 7.6/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Voodoo Sharks

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  18. 7.6/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Alien Sharks of the Deep

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  19. 7.6/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Deadliest Bite

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    Using cutting edge technology, Dr. Tristan Guttridge, Annie Guttridge, Paul De Gelder and Skye Minnis unveil the secrets of Bull, Tiger, Hammerhead, Great White, and rare shark species' jaw mechanics and delve deep into how these sharks' jaws and teeth deliver lethal attacks.

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  20. 7.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Monster Hammerheads: Species X

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    Dr. Austin Gallagher and his team of researchers including Liv Dixon, Zandi Ndhlovu, and Dr. Tristan Guttridge, investigate an aggressive population of Hammerhead Sharks in Turks and Caicos, which they believe could be an entirely new species.

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  21. 7.6/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Great White North

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    There's a growing population of aggressive White Sharks in an unlikely location, Canada. Shark expert Andy Casagrande heads out on an expedition along Nova Scotia's coast to investigate a surge of Great White Shark encounters and figure out if this new population could be the largest in the world.

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  22. 7.5/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Summer of The Shark

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    In the summer of 2008 an unprecedented wave of shark attacks sweeps the eastern coast of Australia. Australian shark experts and fishery managers scramble to understand what is happening. Could it be that that the gradual dwindling of the sharks' natural prey due to overfishing has brought man to the top of the shark's food chain? Will the summer of 2008 be a prelude of things to come?

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  23. 7.5/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Sharks vs. Dolphins: Face Off

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    Sharks and dolphins have shared the ocean for ages, but only recently, scientists have begun to understand the true nature of the relationship between these two masters of the sea. It's hostile, and dangerous, mainly for dolphins. Dolphins would rather eat fish and swim with humans; sharks would rather eat dolphins and anything they can sink their teeth into. Dr. Mike Heithaus and his team bring new research that may solve why sharks attack dolphins far more than we ever knew.

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  24. 7.5/10(9 votes)

    #23 - Tropic Jaws

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    When a 16-foot great white invades Indonesia’s warm coast of Bali, it sparks fears that they are adapting to hunt the tropical beaches where millions of people swim every day. Dr. Craig O’Connell and Madison Stewart are on a mission to find Tropic Jaws and discover why they left the cold water environment that they have called home for thousands of years.

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  25. 7.4/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Smart Sharks: Swimming with Roboshark

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  26. 7.4/10(24 votes)

    #25 - Jaws Comes Home

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    Jaws Comes Home tells the story of passionate shark expert and U.S. Fisheries scientist, Greg Skomal, as he documents six remarkable months following five great whites with names like Curly and Ruthless. His mission: to understand more about their recently discovered, 1,200-mile journey up and down the eastern seaboard and to reveal all he can about these much-maligned hunters.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood" is the best rated episode of "Shark Week". It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/8/2024. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Caught! When Sharks Attack".