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 (29)
1. Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach Off
Aired 9 August 2020 • 42 min
Three teams of researchers return to one of the last hunting grounds for Air Jaws. They will use decoys, drones, and underwater cameras to count the number of breaches and collect data on hunting techniques to see if the shark population is rebounding.
2. Tyson vs Jaws: Rumble on the Reef
Aired 9 August 2020 • 42 min
Legendary boxer and entrepreneur Mike Tyson is taking on a new challenge… and he picked the most unlikely training partner. Iron Mike will go head-to-head with some of the ocean's top apex predators including the blacktip reef shark. With famed ring announcer Michael Buffer calling the shots, these two heavyweights will square off underwater, where Mike Tyson will try to score a TKO over the massive shark… all in the name of research. And don’t worry, no sharks were harmed (or bitten) in the making of this episode.
3. Shark Lockdown
Aired 9 August 2020 • 42 min
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.
4. Abandoned Waters
Aired 10 August 2020 • 42 min
5. Shaq Attack
Aired 10 August 2020 • 42 min
6. Jaws Awakens
Aired 11 August 2020 • 42 min
7. Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Shark
Aired 11 August 2020 • 42 min
8. Will Smith: Off the Deep End
Aired 12 August 2020 • 42 min
9. Great White Serial Killer Extinction
Aired 12 August 2020 • 42 min
10. Monster Under the Bridge
Aired 13 August 2020 • 42 min
11. Adam Devine's Secret Shark Lair
Aired 13 August 2020 • 42 min
12. Great White Double Trouble
Aired 13 August 2020 • 42 min
13. Air Jaws 2020
Aired 14 August 2020 • 42 min
14. Sharkadelic Summer
Aired 14 August 2020 • 42 min
15. Mako Nation
Aired 14 August 2020 • 42 min
16. Alien Sharks: First Contact
Aired 15 August 2020 • 42 min
17. Lair of the Great White
Aired 15 August 2020 • 42 min
18. Tiger Shark King
Aired 15 August 2020 • 42 min
19. I Was Prey: Shark Week 2
Aired 16 August 2020 • 42 min
20. Sharks of Ghost Island
Aired 17 August 2020 • 42 min
21. Wicked Sharks
Aired 18 August 2020 • 42 min
22. Sharks Gone Wild 3
Aired 19 August 2020 • 42 min
23. I Was Prey: Terrors From the Deep
Aired 20 August 2020 • 42 min
24. Naked and Afraid of Sharks 2
Aired 21 August 2020 • 42 min