The BEST episodes of Shark Week season 2022

#1 - Great White Battleground

Season 2022 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2022

Sharkologist, Michelle Jewel believes the leaping great whites of South Africa do more than just hunt for their favorite prey. Join Michelle as she embarks on a journey to prove these sharks are actually breaching to communicate with each other.

#2 - Great White Open Ocean

Season 2022 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2022

In 2020, expert shark diver Jimi Partington nearly died in the jaws of a great white. A year later, he looks to overcome his PTSD and get back in the water with the ocean's megasharks. But what starts off well, turns into a battle between life and death.

#3 - Great White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas

Season 2022 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2022

After a surfer dies off Morro Bay, California on Christmas Eve, shark attack investigators Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillan use forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts to ID the suspected killer: an 18 foot great white shark.

#4 - Sharks in Paradise

Season 2022 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/30/2022

Shark conservationist Kinga Philipps and scientist Tristan Guttridge embark on an expedition through the remote Islands of Tahiti to investigate whether local legends and mysteries about massive sharks are true.

#5 - Monsters of the Cape

Season 2022 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/2022

Shark Week veterans Dr. Craig O'Connell and Mark Rackley dive into the great white infested waters off of Cape Cod looking to test cutting-edge shark deterrents to help keep the waters of the Cape safe for both beach-goers and sharks, before it's too late.

#6 - Pigs vs. Shark

Season 2022 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/26/2022

The famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas may be in peril. Some believe that the local tiger shark population has acquired a taste for pork and may be feasting on these famous oinksters.

#7 - Air Jaws: Top Guns

Season 2022 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/25/2022

High-flying sharks are back, but with a new team competing to be the next "top guns" of Air Jaws. Dickie Chivell and Andy Casagrande use the latest high-tech cameras in hopes of capturing the largest breaching great white ever seen.

#8 - Island of the Walking Sharks

Season 2022 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/27/2022

International wildlife conservationist and biologist Forrest Galante travels to the mysterious island of Papua New Guinea to definitively prove that sharks are evolving to walk on land.

#9 - Sharks! with Tracy Morgan

Season 2022 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/28/2022

Tracy Morgan teams up with shark experts throughout the country to identify the craziest and most ferocious sharks in the ocean. From rare species to stealth predators, Tracy shows off his favorite sharks and their incredible capabilities and adaptations.

#10 - MechaShark: Love Down Under

Season 2022 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/27/2022

Shark expert Kina Scollay and his elite team return with a unique one-person submersible, the Mechashark, to a top secret location off New Zealand attempting to do something that's never been done: locate a great white shark mating ground.

#11 - Shark Rober

Season 2022 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/30/2022

#12 - Shark Women: Ghosted by Great Whites

Season 2022 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/29/2022

Alison Towner has risked her life many times, tagging and studying great white migration patterns in South Africa for the past decade. Now she's assembling the next generation of shark explorers for a spectacular adventure. Together, her all-female crew will pull all the stops — cage dive, free dive, drones, decoys, breeches and more — to track her missing white sharks.

#13 - Jaws vs. The Blob

Season 2022 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/29/2022

A new ocean phenomenon known as The Blob sends juvenile great white sharks straight into a feeding frenzy for monster 20ft adults off the coast of Guadalupe Island. A team of shark experts dives deep to discover if the young sharks survive or become a snack.

#14 - Monster Mako Under the Rig

Season 2022 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/28/2022

A team of researchers have discovered a mysterious group of mako sharks of the Gulf of Mexico who migrate around Florida and up to Rhode Island. They call these makos 'mavericks.' Now, the teams are trying to discover what sets them apart from other makos.

#15 - Shark House

Season 2022 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/28/2022

When never-before-seen footage surfaces of a pack of orcas killing a great white, Dickie Chivell springs into action, building an underwater habitat called 'Shark House.' His mission is to live on the sea floor for seven days, looking for the last remaining great white sharks in South African waters.

#16 - Mission Shark Dome

Season 2022 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/27/2022

A team of shark experts uses new dive technology to get closer to sharks than ever before. Dr. Austin Gallagher and Andre Musgrove enter the Shark Dome to allow them to dive without noisy scuba equipment to locate an elusive great white pupping zone.

#17 - Rise of the Monster Hammerheads

Season 2022 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/2022

Reports of two legendary, very large great hammerheads, Big Moe in the Florida Keys and Sunken in Andros, Bahamas, have Dr. Tristan Guttridge and Andy Casagrande wondering if there is a clan of monster hammerheads who share the same DNA.

#18 - Clash of Killers: Great White vs. Mako

Season 2022 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/29/2022

Scientist Dr. Riley Elliott is tracking two of the ocean's most legendary apex predators – great whites and makos – as they head on a collision course during their yearly migration off the coast of New Zealand.

#19 - Jackass Shark Week 2.0

Season 2022 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/24/2022

Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Jasper, Dark Shark, Zach Holmes and Poopies are back to finish what they started. After Knoxville sent the guys on a terrifying Shark Week mission last year, Knoxville is joining the boys as they head out to get their friend Poopies over his fear of sharks.

#20 - Jaws vs. Kraken

Season 2022 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/26/2022

Something shocking is happening in the abyss around Guadalupe Island. Photos of great whites with strange scars believed to be from giant squids have surfaced. Dr. Tristan Guttridge leads a mission to get a glimpse into the battles between the two beasts.

#21 - Impractical Jokers: Shark Week Spectacular

Season 2022 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2022

The Impractical Jokers are the kings of hijinx and fearlessness in the face of public humiliation but see what happens when they set out to dispel the myth that sharks are man-eating beasts the only way they know how – with extreme, mortifying challenges and dares.