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Shark Week Season 38 — Episodes and Where to Watch

20 episodes · first aired 2025-07-20

2025 Season of Shark Week

Episode guide

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Episode 1: Dancing With Sharks

2025-07-2045 min

Hosted by Tom Bergeron, "Dancing with Sharks" features five divers partnered with sharks -- including hammerheads and tigers! Each routine is unique, with signature underwater moves; a winner will be crowned, but can all the competitors make it that far?

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Episode 2: Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus

2025-07-2042 min

A 20-foot great white breaches in New Zealand, launching a hunt for Colossus—the legendary high-flying shark that may lead to a hidden colony of great whites.

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Episode 3: Great White Assassins

2025-07-2042 min

Alison Towner and Dickie Chivell investigate how killer whales hunt great whites, with Dickie diving disguised as an orca in New Zealand.

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Episode 4: Great White Sex Battle

2025-07-2142 min

Great white male and female sharks battle each other in a series of contests to prove which is the superior sex.

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Episode 5: Jaws vs Mega Croc

2025-07-2142 min

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.

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Episode 6: In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm

2025-07-2142 min

In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras captured 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.

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Episode 7: Great White North Invasion

2025-07-2242 min

Great whites flood the quiet shores of Nova Scotia, threatening locals and igniting a mission to track the biggest sharks to identify the most dangerous areas before a deadly encounter.

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Episode 8: How To Survive A Shark Attack

2025-07-2242 min

Shark attack survivor Paul De Gelder attempts the unthinkable -- provoking sharks to attack him and rip off his limbs so that he can reveal what it takes to survive an attack.

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Episode 9: Black Mako of the Abyss

2025-07-2242 min

A mysterious and aggressive shark emerges from the deep off California's coast, sparking a race to catch it and reveal whether it's an enormous mako, a mutant or a great white-mako hybrid.

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Episode 10: Expedition Files: Shark Files

2025-07-2342 min

There's blood in the water as Josh Gates investigates the strangest shark mysteries ever told -- from the real-life inspiration for Jaws to the shocking case of a tiger shark in captivity that vomited a human arm and helped police solve a gruesome murder.

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Episode 11: Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark

2025-07-2342 min

Josh Gates sends Phil and Heather on their riskiest mission yet -- tracking a legendary 20-foot shark lurking in the eerie waters off Colombia's Malpelo Island. After seeing chilling footage, Josh tasks his team with uncovering the predator's identity.

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Episode 12: Alien Sharks: Death Down Under

2025-07-2342 min

Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante goes rogue in Australia. Diving into the land's dangerous waters, he searches for two venomous alien sharks and cuts through years of red tape to test their venom's toxic, and possibly deadly, potency -- on himself.

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Episode 13: Surviving Jaws

2025-07-2442 min

Fifty years after Jaws terrified beachgoers, marine biologist Tom "Blowfish" Hurd and ecologist Michelle Jewell dive with great whites to separate fact from fiction -- like whether skinny dipping is risky or if a shark could really chew through a boat.

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Episode 14: Caught! Sharks Strike Back

2025-07-2442 min

People have captured a record number of shark encounters on camera, from a hilarious moment when a shark slaps a fisherman in the face to an intense 10 minutes when a great white stalks a kayaker ... these are the craziest moments when sharks strike back.

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Episode 15: Frankenshark

2025-07-2442 min

Shark expert Tristan Guttridge and his mad scientist team use CGI to build the ultimate "Frankenshark." Pulling from a variety of shark species, they build the deadliest, weirdest shark on the planet.

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Episode 16: Great White Reign of Terror

2025-07-2542 min

After nine great white attacks off South Africa's "wild coast" leaves locals reeling, scientists Ryan Johnson, Gibbs Kuguru and Andy Casagrande race to uncover the cause before there's another fatality.

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Episode 17: Florida's Death Beach

2025-07-2542 min

Welcome to New Smyrna Beach -- Florida's spring break hotspot and the Shark Attack Capital of the World. Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante investigates to figure out why this party spot has become so deadly before more blood ends up in the water.

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Episode 18: Bull Shark Showdown

2025-07-2542 min

American bull sharks throw down with Ozzie bulls in a wild competition to determine which one is superior. Paul De Gelder provokes his Australia bulls to perform against Craig O'Connell and Florida's fiercest bull sharks.

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Episode 19: Attack of the Devil Shark

2025-07-2642 min

A rogue tiger shark kills two people in the Caribbean, sparking fear that it's the legendary Devil Shark. A team tracks the shark behind the attacks and uncovers a seismic force driving sharks to aggression in these waters.

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Episode 20: Battle for Shark Mountain

2025-07-2642 min

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.

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