The BEST episodes of Shark Week season 2018

Every episode of Shark Week season 2018, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Shark Week season 2018!

Every year we dedicate a full week to sharks, this includes newly made specials each year all featuring sharks and their attacks.

Last Updated: 12/14/2024Network: DiscoveryStatus: Continuing
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8.75
4 votes

#1 - Ridiculous Cakes: 30th Anniversary of Shark Week

Season 2018 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2018

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of "Shark Week" with a 4-foot-tall cake; the hunt for Bigfoot leads to a sweet encounter for a Seattle cake artist; an entire cake is decorated with only buttercream frosting.

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8.17
6 votes

#2 - Air Jaws: The Hunted

Season 2018 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/24/2018

In 2017, five great whites washed up dead on the beaches in South Africa. Shark Expert Alison Towner believes they were eaten alive. She teams up with Chris Fallows and Andy Casagrande to find out who killed them and how to save the species in the future.

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Air Jaws: Back From the Dead
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8.17
6 votes

#3 - Air Jaws: Back From the Dead

Season 2018 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/25/2018

After visiting the shores of South Africa to watch great white sharks preying on seals 17 years ago, Jeff Kurr and Chris Fallows are back together again to discover how the great whites in New Zealand go after their kills.

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8.00
7 votes

#4 - Great White Abyss

Season 2018 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/2018

Dr. Mauricio Hoyos and shark experts Jimi Partington and Brandon McMillan embark on the first manned expedition to the darkest depths of the sea floor off Guadalupe Island, in search of the notorious 20-foot-long great white shark, Deep Blue.

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Return of the Mega Shark
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7.83
6 votes

#5 - Return of the Mega Shark

Season 2018 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/28/2018

Researchers go to New Zealand to look for giant great white sharks lurking in deep water off the coast and revisit the most exciting events and discoveries from the past to help guide their search.

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7.80
5 votes

#6 - Great White Shark Babies

Season 2018 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/27/2018

Dr. Mauricio Hoyos and researched Michelle Jewell and Toby Daly-Engel take a trip to Guadalupe to determine the birthing habitats of pregnant great whites.

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Sharkcam Strikes Back
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7.75
4 votes

#7 - Sharkcam Strikes Back

Season 2018 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/26/2018

The Woods Hole team remembers all the fascinating shark discoveries they’ve made over the last six years.

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7.67
6 votes

#8 - Laws of Jaws

Season 2018 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2018

Shark attacks are on the rise! Is it the shark's behavior or our own? To test this theory expert divers Liz Parkinson, Mike Dornellas and Nick LeBeouf team up with Andy Casagrande to recreate real-life scenarios for answers and teach us the LAWS OF JAWS.

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Megalodon: Fact Vs. Fiction
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7.60
5 votes

#9 - Megalodon: Fact Vs. Fiction

Season 2018 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/27/2018

Scientists and experts share their thoughts on how Megalodon, the big-tooth prehistoric shark that lived some 26 million years ago, would have existed in today’s waters.

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Sharkcam Stakeout
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7.60
5 votes

#10 - Sharkcam Stakeout

Season 2018 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/25/2018

Dr. Greg Skomal and the Woods Hole team join forces with Doc Gruber and Dr. Tristan Gutteridge to study the hunting and feeding habits of bulls and hammerhead sharks living in the Bahamian waters.

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7.60
5 votes

#11 - Cuba's Secret Shark Lair

Season 2018 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/23/2018

In 1945, one of the largest sharks ever recorded was captured in Cuban waters, a great white named 'El Monstruo.' Two teams of researchers divide and conquer in search of Cuba's massive great hammerhead in 'The Queen' and 'El Monstruo'-sized great white.

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7.60
10 votes

#12 - Bear vs. Shark

Season 2018 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2018

Bear Grylls has survived the most extreme environments, and now he's back for Shark Week 30th anniversary to test his wits and skills as he faces off with the ocean's apex predators -- sharks!

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7.50
6 votes

#13 - Shaq Does Shark Week

Season 2018 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2018

Shaq accidentally signed himself up to be thrust into the teeth of Shark Week's 30th anniversary, but he doesn't do sharks. To overcome his fear, he trains with ex-Navy and Marine comedian Rob Riggle for the big plunge.

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Sharkwrecked
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7.50
4 votes

#14 - Sharkwrecked

Season 2018 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/26/2018

Watch as Paul de Gelder and James Glancy spend 48 hours shipwrecked in shark-infested waters with no food.

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7.40
5 votes

#15 - Monster Tag

Season 2018 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/23/2018

In this thrilling and urgent Shark Week special, Aaron Rogers, Lindsey Vonn, and Robert Gronkowski join forces with shark scientists to learn crucial information about shark populations and how to save our ocean's top predators.

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Tiger Shark Invasion
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7.40
5 votes

#16 - Tiger Shark Invasion

Season 2018 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/26/2018

Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and Joe Romeiro visit the Galapagos to study tiger sharks and learn how the fish helped repopulate the islands’ surrounding waters.

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Shark Tank Meets Shark Week
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7.33
3 votes

#17 - Shark Tank Meets Shark Week

Season 2018 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/25/2018

The renowned sharks of ABC’s popular series will join in on the Shark Week fun for the first time ever while deciding whose shark conversation project is worth a $50,000 donation.

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star
7.29
7 votes

#18 - Ronda Rousey Uncaged

Season 2018 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/22/2018

Olympian and UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey gets help from Paul De Gelder to train through three rounds of survival training against heavyweight opponents the Bull sharks, all building to a historic "Main Event"... swimming UNCAGED with Mako sharks!

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Bloodline: Spawn of Jaws
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7.25
4 votes

#19 - Bloodline: Spawn of Jaws

Season 2018 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/27/2018

Dr. Craige O’Connell investigates the sharks off the coast to Long Island in effort to determine if any of the great whites are related to the natural born killers that inspired the blockbuster hit Jaws.

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star
7.14
7 votes

#20 - Naked and Afraid of Sharks

Season 2018 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/29/2018

Stranded on a barren island in the middle of the most shark-infested waters on earth, five Naked and Afraid all-stars must survive for 14 days, exclusively on what the ocean provides.

Sharks Gone Wild
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7.00
5 votes

#21 - Sharks Gone Wild

Season 2018 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/28/2018

A look at everything that has happened in the world of sharks this year -- the unbelievable viral videos, the biggest news stories, and the latest cutting-edge shark science.

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6.50
6 votes

#22 - Guy Fieri's feeding Frenzy

Season 2018 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/24/2018

Shark Week teams up with Guy Fieri and his son, Hunter, in the Bahamas to experience local cuisine and explore and understand what makes the waters around these islands the ideal all-you-can-eat buffet for such a wide variety of shark species.

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star
6.50
2 votes

#23 - Cash Cab Shark Week Edition

Season 2018 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/27/2018

Cash Cab host Ben puts a few sailors and nautical experts in the hot seat as they answer shark and sea-related questions in pursuit of winning a cash prize.

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