The BEST episodes of Shark Week season 2017
Every episode of Shark Week season 2017, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Shark Week season 2017!
Every year we dedicate a full week to sharks, this includes newly made specials each year all featuring sharks and their attacks.
#1 - Shark School with Michael Phelps
Season 2017 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/30/2017
Michael Phelps joins Doc Gruber and Tristan Guttridge of the Bimini Shark Lab to get a crash course on everything ‘shark.’ They’ll dispel the myths and common misconceptions, teach him how to safely dive with sharks - including how to stay calm when a hammerhead swims two feet above his face - and will get Michael Phelps up close and personal with the incredible power of a Great White. Produced by Peacock Productions.
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#2 - Shark Vortex
Season 2017 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/24/2017
Each summer the Gulf Stream pushes north into the waters of southern New England, bringing with it 30 species of shark. Greg Skomal and Joe Romeiro study the annual spectacle, focusing on three sharks – makos, great whites, and porbeagles – that can out-swim, out-think, and out-compete all the others. Produced by 333 Productions and Radley Studios.
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#3 - Return to the Isle of Jaws
Season 2017 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/24/2017
Divers and scientists RETURN TO THE ISLE OF JAWS to unlock the mysteries of this new great white hot spot, just south of Western Australia. They make a startling discovery that causes us to re-think of everything we thought we knew about great whites. Produced by Red Rock Films.
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#4 - Shark Exile
Season 2017 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/27/2017
In Brazil, Dr. Hazin has successfully reduced the number of shark encounters by simply catching and moving sharks out to the open sea. What’s his secret? And can this solution work in Australia, where encounters are a problem? Produced by Sealight Pictures.
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#5 - Devil Sharks
Season 2017 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/26/2017
From active to extinct, and at every stage in between, volcanoes hold a strong attraction for sharks of all kinds. Across the world, sharks congregate and concentrate around volcanoes and volcanic islands. What is it about volcanoes that make them shark hotspots? Dr. Mike Heithaus dives in several volcanoes to find out. Produced by Pangolin Pictures.
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#6 - Great Hammerhead Invasion
Season 2017 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/2017
Early November, giant hammerheads arrive off Bimini, in the Bahamas. But why? Leading shark scientist Tristan Guttridge tags and follows these normally solitary sharks to find out. Many appear to be pregnant females, as an ultrasound of a female hammerhead shows. Guttridge believes they spend winter in Bimini to feed the growing young in their bellies – and then move on to the Florida coast to prey on migrating blacktips – and the evidence is unmistakable. Produced by Icon Films.
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#7 - Great White Serial Killer Lives
Season 2017 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2017
Every two years in October - in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 - a secluded beach on the central California coast has been the scene of great white shark attacks. Is it the same shark returning again and again? And will the attacks continue in October 2016? Dr. Michael Domeier believes the Surf Beach attacks may be more than a tragic coincidence. With the help of shark experts Ralph Collier and Cal Lutheran, and using satellite tags and DNA technology, he wants to out the killer once and for all. Produced by Shark Entertainment.
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#8 - Shark-Croc Showdown
Season 2017 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/23/2017
Shark Week's Paul de Gelder teams up with Dr. Mark Meekan to travel to the sharkiest places in the world, Cobourg Penninsula in Northern Australia. They want to know what happens when 14-foot crocodiles moves into shark infested waters?.
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#10 - Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins
Season 2017 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/24/2017
ALIEN SHARKS is back in search of some of the world's strangest sharks. Dr. Craig O'Connell goes to the Bass Strait for sawsharks, while Victoria Elena Vasquez and Dr. David Ebert go into deep water in Tokyo Bay to find the star of the show, the goblin shark. They find both sawsharks and goblins - and many more, including ghost sharks, frilled sharks, and the amazing luminescent lantern shark. Produced by Discovery Studios.
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#11 - Shark Storm
Season 2017 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/27/2017
At various times of the year and in different locations around the world, sharks of many kinds gather, swarm, and spiral. Dr. Tristan Guttridge and Ornella Weideli conduct a study of just what brings them together, and what’s going on in these shark ‘societies’. Produced by Red Rock Films.
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#12 - Lair of the Sawfish
Season 2017 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/28/2017
Experts unravel the mystery behind one of the sea’s strangest creatures, the sawfish, from its evolutionary links to sharks and rays, to its key role in the marine ecosystem. Their goal is to bring the sawfish back from the brink of extinction. Produced by Radley Studios and Delve Creative.
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#13 - African Shark Safari
Season 2017 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/28/2017
Two shark experts attempt to find where the largest great white sharks disappear. Learning this knowledge may help to protect great whites from extinction.
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#14 - Sharks and the City: NYC
Season 2017 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/25/2017
For decades, great white shark numbers were in decline in the waters around New York. But now, seals are back in New York Harbor – can the great whites be far behind? Marine biologist Craig O’Connell tries to find out how close they really are, and shows what a future with great whites in New York will look like.
#15 - Phelps vs Shark: Great Gold vs Great White
Season 2017 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2017
They are one of the fastest and most efficient predators on the planet: Sharks. He is our greatest champion to ever get in the water: Michael Phelps. 39 world records. 23 Olympic golds. The world’s most decorated athlete takes on the ocean’s most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark – the race is on!
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#16 - The Lost Cage
Season 2017 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/26/2017
A team of explorers float in a one-of-a-kind shark cage, 500 miles into the Gulf of Mexico. Acting as human lures in the open ocean will they encounter its deadliest shark? Produced by Gurney Entertainment.
#17 - Sharkmania
Season 2017 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/29/2017
A rundown of the greatest moments from SHARK WEEK 2017, featuring the closest calls, biggest bites, greatest gadgets, and viewers’ top picks for the best of SHARK WEEK history. Produced by Discovery Studios.
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