8.2/1077 votesLoading...#1 - Air Jaws: Sharks of South Africa
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/2001
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- 8.2/108 votesLoading...
#2 - Perfect Shark
Season 19 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2006
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- 8.2/106 votesLoading...
#3 - Expedition Unknown: Sharks vs. Nazis in Paradise
Season 37 Episode 12 - Aired 7/10/2024
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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- 8.1/1042 votesLoading...
#4 - Great White Attack: A True Story
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 6/17/2002
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- 8.0/107 votesLoading...
#5 - Great White Danger Zone
Season 37 Episode 16 - Aired 7/11/2024
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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- 7.9/107 votesLoading...
#6 - Monster Hammerheads: Species X
Season 37 Episode 10 - Aired 7/9/2024
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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- 7.8/109 votesLoading...
#7 - Sharks Under Glass
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 8/23/2003
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- 7.8/1052 votesLoading...
#8 - Adrift: 47 Days With Sharks
Season 25 Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/2012
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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- 7.8/1026 votesLoading...
#9 - Alien Sharks of the Deep
Season 26 Episode 10 - Aired 8/8/2013
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- 7.8/105 votesLoading...
#10 - Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion
Season 37 Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/2024
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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#11 - Monster of Oz
Season 37 Episode 14 - Aired 7/11/2024
In southwestern Australia, an unknown predator with a taste for Great White and Mako Sharks ignites fears of sea monsters in the abyss. Filmmakers Dave and Jennene Riggs join Dr. Tristan Guttridge and Rosie Moore in attempt to track down the killer.
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- 7.7/1011 votesLoading...
#12 - Bull Shark: World's Deadliest Shark
Season 17 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/2004
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- 7.7/1030 votesLoading...
#13 - Ultimate Air Jaws
Season 23 Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/2010
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 - Tropic Jaws
Season 36 Episode 17 - Aired 7/28/2023
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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- 7.7/106 votesLoading...
#15 - Great White North
Season 37 Episode 11 - Aired 7/10/2024
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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- 7.6/1034 votesLoading...
#16 - How Jaws Changed The World
Season 25 Episode 5 - Aired 8/14/2012
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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- 7.6/1014 votesLoading...
#17 - Voodoo Sharks
Season 26 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2013
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- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#18 - Summer of The Shark
Season 24 Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2011
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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- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#19 - Great White Gauntlet
Season 26 Episode 11 - Aired 8/8/2013
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- 7.5/1011 votesLoading...
#20 - Belly of the Beast: Bigger and Bloodier
Season 37 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2024
One of last year's most popular Shark Week shows returns. Marine biologist Dr. Austin Gallagher, marine scientist Liv Dixon, and legendary cameraman Kina Scollay travel to a new location and head back into the belly of a 29-foot whale decoy with new shark attractant features to create the biggest feeding frenzy ever with 18-foot 'Breeder' sharks in New Zealand.
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- 7.4/107 votesLoading...
#21 - Smart Sharks: Swimming with Roboshark
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2003
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- 7.4/1024 votesLoading...
#22 - Jaws Comes Home
Season 24 Episode 2 - Aired 7/31/2011
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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- 7.4/1017 votesLoading...
#23 - Killer Sharks: The Attacks of Black December
Season 24 Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/2011
December 1957: the height of tourist season in South Africa. Merry vacationers from around the globe descend on an idyllic resort town along the sunny coast to enjoy the summer. It's not long until the white sands are clogged with dead bodies and the sapphire waters are red with blood. The culprit? The authorities suspected a single, massive rogue shark with a taste for human flesh.
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#24 - Air Jaws: Fins of Fury
Season 27 Episode 1 - Aired 8/10/2014
Air Jaws programming has pushed and expanded our understanding of great white sharks and has become one of the iconic SHARK WEEK programs. In Air Jaws: Fins of Fury Natural History producer Jeff Kurr and his team return using incredible new cameras and high tech underwater gadgetry to track down the missing “mega-shark” named Colossus.
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#25 - Shark Lockdown
Season 33 Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2020
In the waters off New Zealand, the largest female great whites are measuring over 20-feet long, earning the nickname ‘the 747s.’ With no human interaction during COVID-19, researchers built a self-propelled cage to see how hunting patterns have changed.
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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 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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Best Episodes Summary
"Air Jaws: Sharks of South Africa" is the best rated episode of "Shark Week". It scored 8.2/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/27/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Perfect Shark".