6.5/1016 votes#1 - Great White Invasion
Season 24 Episode 1 - Aired 7/31/2011
Great white sharks, in large numbers, are now suddenly being found swimming among surfers and vacationers just off beaches from South Africa to Australia, and up and down the coast of California. Just why they're there and just what they're doing is a mystery that Chris Fallows and an international team of sharks scientists are trying to figure out.
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- 7.4/1024 votes
#2 - 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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- 7.2/1011 votes
#3 - Rogue Sharks
Season 24 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2011
It was the central premise of the hit movie Jaws that still haunts people today: that certain sharks may "go rogue" and decide to go after humans. But does the science back this up? In this hour, we'll weave stories of some of the most horrific shark attacks in history with the larger scientific detective story of whether or not individual sharks ever develop a taste for human flesh and go Rogue.
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- 7.5/1012 votes
#4 - 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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- 7.4/1017 votes
#5 - 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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- 5.8/1017 votes
#6 - How Sharks Hunt
Season 24 Episode 6 - Aired 8/3/2011
Dave and Cody of Dual Survival dive in to investigate why no two species of shark attack in the same manner. Through a series of groundbreaking tests and the use of innovative high-tech camera technologies, they'll examine the shark's unique savagery and specialized methods of killing, revealing exactly why they're so deadly.
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- 6.2/1020 votes
#7 - Shark City
Season 24 Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2011
Most of us think of sharks as blank-eyed killing machines, but in Shark City, we'll get to know a handful of them as individuals. We'll follow the sharks of the Bahamas through their days and nights to find out how they size each other up, what they like to eat and what it is that they're afraid of. This show will feature the amazing talents and hilarious insights of our Chief Shark Officer, Andy Samberg.
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - When Fish Attack 3
Season 24 Episode 8 - Aired Unknown
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The Best Episodes of Shark Week Season 24
Every episode of Shark Week Season 24 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Shark Week Season 24!
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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Season 24 Ratings Summary
"Great White Invasion" is the best rated episode of "Shark Week" season 24. It scored 6.5/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/31/2011. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Jaws Comes Home".