About this season
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 in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Episodes (6)
1. Mythbusters: Shark Special 2
Aired 27 July 2008 • 42 min
Using their signature sci-tech style of explosive experimentation, the MythBusters hit the deep blue from California to the Bahamas to investigate myths about sharks. They are honing in on some doozies this year: Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks? And hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman create the ultimate SHARK WEEK build – a 16-foot-long robo-shark!
2. Surviving Sharks
Aired 28 July 2008 • 42 min
3. Day of the Shark
Aired 28 July 2008 • 42 min
4. Dirty Jobs: Greenland Shark Quest
Aired 29 July 2008 • 42 min
In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man : the Greenland shark.
5. How Not to Become Shark Bait
Aired 29 July 2008 • 42 min
6. Mysteries of the Shark Coast
Aired 30 July 2008 • 42 min