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 (11)
1. Air Jaws: Beyond the Breach: Countdown to Shark Week 2013
Aired 4 August 2013 • 42 min
2. Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives
Aired 4 August 2013 • 42 min
3. Return of Jaws
Aired 5 August 2013 • 42 min
4. Voodoo Sharks
Aired 5 August 2013 • 42 min
5. I Escaped Jaws
Aired 6 August 2013 • 42 min
For the first time, Shark Week uses real shark attack footage captured by eye-witnesses to examine first-hand accounts from a nurse who lost her arm in an attack while vacationing in Mexico and an Australian Navy Diver who lost an arm and a leg.
6. Spawn of Jaws
Aired 6 August 2013 • 42 min
7. Top 10 Sharkdown
Aired 7 August 2013 • 42 min
TOP 10 SHARKDOWN updates the international shark attack files for the 21st century and takes a closer look at the sharks viewers won't want to meet at the beach this summer - and the ones swimmers and surfers are most likely to encounter. From the weird - the feisty cookie cutter, which bites cookie-shaped circles out of its prey; to the macabre, like the Sand Tiger, whose cannibalistic young devour each other in the womb; to the infamous Great Whites, Tiger Sharks, and Bull Sharks - TOP 10 SHARKDOWN ranks these amazing predators.
8. Great White Serial Killer
Aired 7 August 2013 • 42 min
9. Sharkpocalypse
Aired 8 August 2013 • 42 min
10. Alien Sharks of the Deep
Aired 8 August 2013 • 42 min
11. Great White Gauntlet
Aired 8 August 2013 • 42 min