Discovery’s Shark Week returns 10 August – From an unprecedented underwater dance competition to pulse-pounding recreations of terrifying shark attacks, Discovery’s Shark Week delivers epic footage and groundbreaking scientific discoveries during the iconic annual programming event, beginning Sunday, 10 August at 7:30pm on Discovery and HBO Max.
Shark Week will premiere a jaw-dropping 17 hours of new specials, including: Dancing with Sharks, where Emmy® Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron hosts a first-of-its-kind deep-sea dance-off with humans and their shark partners; How to Survive a Shark Attack where audiences will experience real shark attacks up close through a series of never-before-attempted experiments; the return of fan-favourite special Air Jaws, featuring two teams crossing the globe on a hunt for the biggest breaching sharks in the world; a special Shark Week episode of In the Eye of the Storm, following victims and first responders in real-time as they endure a cluster of shark attacks along Florida’s Gulf Coast; and Expedition Unknown: Shark Files, where host Josh Gates investigates some of the strangest and most disturbing shark mysteries, including the real-life inspiration for the film Jaws.
The 2025 edition of Shark Week will feature documentaries filmed in Australia and New Zealand and include Australian shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder.
Stream or watch Shark Week from Sunday 10 August at 7:30pm on Discovery* and HBO Max.
*Available on Foxtel, Fetch and Binge
SHARK WEEK 2025 PREMIERES:
Sunday 10 August
Dancing with Sharks
Sunday 10 August at 7.30pm
Hosted by Emmy® Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron, Dancing with Sharks is a competition show unlike any other. For the first time ever, five divers compete to put together an amazing underwater routine with their toothy partners. From hammerheads to tigers and nurse sharks, each shark has its own signature dance moves. At the end of the show, a winner is crowned – if all the competitors make it that far.
Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus
Sunday 10 August at 8.30pm
FILMED IN NEW ZEALAND AND FEATURES PAUL DE GELDER
A 20-foot great white breaches in New Zealand, sparking a hunt for Colossus – the legendary flying shark who went missing 10 years ago from South Africa’s waters. Could he still be alive and lead researchers to a secret colony of lost great whites?
Great White Reign of Terror
Sunday 10 August at 9.30pm
In South Africa, two people are killed by great whites near the eastern cape, an area that hasn’t seen an attack in decades. Scientists worry it could be the start of a series of attacks eerily similar to Black December in 1957, when six people lost their lives. Ryan Johnson, Gibbs Kuguru and Andy Casagrande head out to investigate the cause behind the spike in attacks before there’s another fatality.
Monday 11 August
In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm
Monday 11 August at 7.30pm
In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras capture a rare outbreak of shark attacks along America’s gulf coast. Told exclusively through first-hand accounts of victims and eyewitnesses, nobody has seen all these perspectives unfold in real time until now.
Bull Shark Showdown
Monday 11 August at 8.30pm
FILMED IN AUSTRALIA AND FEATURES PAUL DE GELDER
The most vicious and insane populations of bull sharks from Australia and America face off in a no-holds-barred showdown beneath the water. Bull Shark-attack survivor Paul de Gelder contends that his Aussie sharks are the toughest, while American shark biologist Dr. Craig O’Connell attempts to find the meanest sharks Florida has to offer to take the crown.
Jaws vs Mega Croc
Monday 11 August at 9.30pm
FILMED IN NEW ZEALAND
Using data gathered in new experiments, Tristan Guttridge, Rosie Moore and Dr. Sora Kim construct a CGI fight to the death between two of the biggest and baddest apex predators in the water – the Great White Shark and Nile Crocodile.
Tuesday 12 August
How to Survive a Shark Attack
Tuesday 12 August at 7.30pm
FEATURES PAUL DE GELDER
Shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder attempts the unthinkable – getting attacked by a shark, again. Audiences will experience real shark attacks up close through a series of never-before-attempted experiments; teaching life-saving tactics for surviving an encounter with nature’s deadliest predators.
Black Mako of the Abyss
Tuesday 12 August at 8.30pm
FEATURES PAUL DE GELDER
When Shark Tagger Keith Poe saw the shark for the first time, he knew it was different. It was aggressive, 13-feet long and had very dark skin. Now, a group of experts lure the beast up from the abyss to determine if the creature is a mako, or mutant, or possibly, a mako and great white hybrid.
Alien Sharks: Death Down Under
Tuesday 12 August at 9.30pm FILMED IN AUSTRALIA
Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante injects himself with shark venom after diving down under into Australia’s dangerous waters, home to some of the weirdest, alien-like and deadly sharks. He hopes this risky and potentially lethal experiment will bypass years of red tape to finally discover the potency of the venomous Port Jackson Shark and Ghost Shark.
Wednesday 13 August
Expedition Unknown: Shark Files
Wednesday 13 August at 7.30pm
Global adventurer Josh Gates solves some of the strangest and most disturbing shark mysteries of all-time, including the real-life bloody inspiration for the movie Jaws and the gruesome case of the Tiger Shark who vomited an arm while living in captivity and ultimately helped police solve a murder mystery.
Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark
Wednesday 13 August at 8.30pm
Josh Gates sends Phil Torres and Heather Amaro on their most perilous mission yet – tracking a legendary monster shark that lurks in the eerie waters of Malpelo Island, 300 miles off Colombia’s coast. After terrifying footage of this monster is brought to Josh, he sends his fearless team deep into the ocean to unmask the true identity of this 20-foot-long predator.
Thursday 14 August
Surviving Jaws
Thursday 14 August at 7.30pm
FILMED IN NEW ZEALAND
Fifty years ago, Jaws changed the beach-going experience forever – striking fear into millions of Americans who vowed to never go in the water again. Now, marine biologist Tom “Blowfish” Hird and predator ecologist Michelle Jewell re-examine the movie and dive with Great Whites to separate fact from fiction, answering questions like: does skinny dipping really attract great white sharks? Could a monster shark chew through a boat’s hull?
Caught! Sharks Strike Back
Thursday 14 August at 8.30pm
This year has set a record for shark encounters captured on camera, from a hilarious moment when a shark slaps a fisherman in the face to the intense 10-minutes a great white stalked a kayaker… these are craziest moments of when sharks strike back.
Friday 15 August
Great White Assassins
Friday 15 August at 7.30pm
FILMED IN NEW ZEALAND
Discovery Shark expert Alison Towner teams up with Shark Week legend Dickie Chivell to decode how killer whales take down great whites with ease. To get answers, the team travels to New Zealand and goes to the extreme, sending Dickie underwater posed as an orca to see how the great whites react.
Florida’s Death Beach
Friday 15 August at 8.30pm
The numbers are in, and once again, Florida – specifically New Smyrna Beach – has earned the title of “The Shark Attack Capital of the World,” accounting for 30% of global shark attacks. But why has the popular spring break, party beach become so deadly? Forrest Galante and his team investigate before even more blood ends up in the water.
Saturday 16 August
Attack of the Devil Shark
Saturday 16 August at 7.30pm
A rogue Tiger Shark attacks and kills a person in St. Martin. Weeks later, it strikes again. Locals fear it could be the work of the legendary Devil Shark – a massive and ruthless tiger shark who’s haunted their shores for decades. When a team sets out to track down the shark responsible for the attacks, they uncover a seismic force that may be triggering aggression in sharks.
Battle for Shark Mountain
Saturday 16 August at 8.30pm
Off Mozambique’s coast, sharks swarm a hidden peak, hunting Giant Trevally in a once-a-year feeding frenzy. But when 5,000 Trevally fight back, the hunters become the hunted in one of the ocean’s wildest showdowns.Stream or watch Shark Week from Sunday 10 August at 7:30pm on Discovery* and HBO Max.
*Available on Foxtel, Fetch and Binge
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