The BEST episodes of Shark Week season 2020
Every episode of Shark Week season 2020, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Shark Week season 2020!
Every year we dedicate a full week to sharks, this includes newly made specials each year all featuring sharks and their attacks.
#2 - I Was Prey: Shark Week 2
Season 2020 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/14/2020
Two adventure seekers recount their horrifying shark attack experiences. Off the coast of Australia, a spearfishing expedition turns into a nightmare featuring a ferocious bull shark, and a great white attacks a paddle boarder on Ascension Island.
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#3 - Naked & Afraid of Sharks 2
Season 2020 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/16/2020
On the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, five Naked and Afraid veterans — Matt Wright, Jeff Zausch, Serena and Amber Shine, and Alex Manard — attempt to survive on a remote strip of islands whose waters are so teeming with predators, locals call it ‘Shark Alley.’ With limited resources and punishing conditions on land, they’ll have no choice but to take to the waters and compete with hungry sharks for the same food.
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#4 - Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Sharks
Season 2020 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/11/2020
Wildlife biologist and conservationist Forrest Galante dives into some of the most treacherous, shark-infested waters in the southern hemisphere all in an attempt to rediscover three unique sharks lost to science for as long as 100 years.
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#5 - Great White Double Trouble
Season 2020 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/12/2020
Australia is in the midst of a rising wave of shark attacks, with great whites leading the way. And scientists have just discovered that Aussies are facing not one population of great whites, but two and researchers want to know who rules the waters.
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#6 - Mako Nation
Season 2020 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/13/2020
Shark expert Riley Elliot and underwater cameraman Andy Casagrande are on an epic expedition to uncover the mysteries of the mako shark in one of the last places on earth where these apex predators rule the waters.
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#7 - Alien Sharks: First Contact
Season 2020 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/14/2020
Mysterious and bizarre alien sharks lurk far beneath the waves in remarkably deep waters where researchers are on a quest to make first contact. Pursuing the elusive frilled shark, sleeper shark, and cookie cutter shark bring even more unexpected encounters.
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#8 - Will Smith: Off the Deep End
Season 2020 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/11/2020
Will Smith is diving headfirst into action, excitement, and shark-infested waters, as he confronts his fear of the open seas and the open jaws of nature’s fiercest predators.
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#9 - Sharkadelic Summer
Season 2020 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/13/2020
Snoop Dogg breaks down the craziest encounters, marvels at the wild and unpredictable reactions, and meets with experts trying to unlock the secrets behind why great white sharks are taking up residence along America's shores.
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#10 - Shark Lockdown
Season 2020 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2020
In the waters off New Zealand, the largest female great whites are measuring over 20-feet long, earning the nickname ‘the 747s.’ With no human interaction during COVID-19, researchers built a self-propelled cage to see how hunting patterns have changed.
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#11 - Abandoned Waters
Season 2020 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/2020
COVID-19 has changed the world’s behavior and that has presented shark researchers with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the massive great whites at Australia’s Neptune Islands. With no human interaction for the first time in decades, some of the biggest great white sharks on earth are returning to their natural behaviors…allowing scientists to study them up close and personal in ways that were nearly impossible before.
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#12 - Jaws Awakens
Season 2020 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/2020
Shark expert Chris Fallows joins Jeff Kurr and Dickie Chivell to search for the largest male great white shark in the world. Together, Chris, Jeff, and Dickie explore the waters of New Zealand trying to find a nearly 20-foot long, two-ton shark named Fred.
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#13 - Monster Under the Bridge
Season 2020 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/12/2020
Scientists believe that monster sharks make their home under the Old Seven Mile Bridge. Fishermen claim that one of the sharks is a 18-foot-long, one-ton great hammerhead named Big Moe. If this is true, he will be the largest hammerhead on the planet.
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#14 - Sharks Gone Wild 3
Season 2020 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/15/2020
Everything you always wanted to know about viral shark videos but were afraid to ask! Sharks Gone Wild 3 reviews everything from viral videos and the biggest news stories to the latest in cutting-edge shark science.
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#15 - Sharks of Ghost Island
Season 2020 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/15/2020
On the edge of the Bermuda Triangle lies Ghost Island, a place locals have abandoned after multiple shipwrecks and shark attacks. Dr. Craig O'Connell has been here before to study the potential shark hot spot, but his first trip ended abruptly when his boat nearly sank. Now Craig is back with a team of experts and they are determined to find why this island attracts so many sharks, even the great white.
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#16 - Tiger Shark King
Season 2020 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/14/2020
In the Caribbean, a deep-sea camera captured footage of a 14-foot tiger shark suffering an assault by a large, unseen beast. It could be an unknown species of megashark or even a cannibalistic tiger shark. Dr. Austin Gallagher wants to find out.
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#17 - Adam Devine's Secret Shark Lair
Season 2020 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/12/2020
Last year, Adam Devine and a team of marine biologists deployed a CATS camera tag on a massive tiger shark that yielded a surprising scientific discovery: a secret tiger shark lair. Scientists believe this may be the largest congregation of tiger sharks on the planet or in Adam's mind, the ultimate shark party! Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson find out what makes this tiger shark party so epic. Are they mating? Are they pupping? Are they feeding? What makes this such a great shark party?
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#18 - Great White Serial Killer Extinction
Season 2020 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/11/2020
The Great White Serial Killer returns and it's on a killing spree that may push the California Sea Otter to extinction. Investigators deploy an otter dummy to get a closer look and witness one of the most spectacular attacks in Shark Week history.
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#19 - Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach Off
Season 2020 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/9/2020
Three teams of researchers return to one of the last hunting grounds for Air Jaws. They will use decoys, drones, and underwater cameras to count the number of breaches and collect data on hunting techniques to see if the shark population is rebounding.
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#20 - Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef
Season 2020 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/9/2020
Legendary boxer and entrepreneur Mike Tyson is taking on a new challenge… and he picked the most unlikely training partner. Iron Mike will go head-to-head with some of the ocean's top apex predators including the blacktip reef shark. With famed ring announcer Michael Buffer calling the shots, these two heavyweights will square off underwater, where Mike Tyson will try to score a TKO over the massive shark… all in the name of research. And don’t worry, no sharks were harmed (or bitten) in the making of this episode.
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#21 - ShaqAttack
Season 2020 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2020
After surviving a shark encounter in Shaq Does Shark Week, Shaquille O’Neal is back… and now he’s on a mission to determine what shark has the perfect predatory attack. But he can’t do it alone. Shaq is deploying YouTube stars Dude Perfect and Mark Rober to put various species to the test and uncover the most mind-blowing hunting techniques of this ultimate predator.
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#22 - Lair of the Great White
Season 2020 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/14/2020
A team of experts attempts to find out why a population of great whites off the coast of Western Australia is so much more aggressive than others. The team must brave the elements and venture into treacherous underwater caves to find out for themselves.
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#23 - Wicked Sharks
Season 2020 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/15/2020
As the number of great white shark encounters on Cape Cod spikes, shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal breaks out cutting-edge technology to capture the white shark’s point of view — revealing exactly how and where they hunt in the summer to better protect the public.
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#24 - I Was Prey: Terrors from the Deep
Season 2020 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/15/2020
A California surfer, a Canadian thrill-seeker, an Alabama football coach, and a mother from North Carolina reveal how they each came face-to-face with the ocean's top predator and lived to tell their stories.
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