Shark Week Season 38 Episode release dates & where to watch
Premiered
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Ended: Saturday, July 26, 2025
When does Shark Week Season 38 come out?
Shark Week Season 38 premiered Sunday, July 20, 2025 on Discovery and ended Saturday, July 26, 2025. The season has 20 episodes.
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Shark Week Season 38 release schedule
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1. Dancing With Sharks 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? |
Sunday · 1 year ago |
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2. Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus 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. |
Sunday · 1 year ago |
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3. Great White Assassins Alison Towner and Dickie Chivell investigate how killer whales hunt great whites, with Dickie diving disguised as an orca in New Zealand. |
Sunday · 1 year ago |
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4. Great White Sex Battle Great white male and female sharks battle each other in a series of contests to prove which is the superior sex. |
Monday · 1 year ago |
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5. Jaws vs Mega Croc 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. |
Monday · 1 year ago |
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6. In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm 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. |
Monday · 1 year ago |
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7. Great White North Invasion 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. |
Tuesday · 1 year ago |
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8. How To Survive A Shark Attack 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. |
Tuesday · 1 year ago |
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9. Black Mako of the Abyss 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. |
Tuesday · 1 year ago |
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10. Expedition Files: Shark Files 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. |
Wednesday · 1 year ago |
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11. Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark 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. |
Wednesday · 1 year ago |
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12. Alien Sharks: Death Down Under 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. |
Wednesday · 1 year ago |
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13. Surviving Jaws 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. |
Thursday · 1 year ago |
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14. Caught! Sharks Strike Back 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. |
Thursday · 1 year ago |
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15. Frankenshark 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. |
Thursday · 1 year ago |
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16. Great White Reign of Terror 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. |
Friday · 1 year ago |
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17. Florida's Death Beach 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. |
Friday · 1 year ago |
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18. Bull Shark Showdown 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. |
Friday · 1 year ago |
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19. Attack of the Devil Shark 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. |
Saturday · 1 year ago |
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20. Battle for Shark Mountain Finale 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. |
Saturday · 1 year ago |
Shark Week Season 38 FAQ
When does Shark Week Season 38 come out?
Shark Week Season 38 premiered Sunday, July 20, 2025 on Discovery.
How many episodes are in Shark Week Season 38?
Shark Week Season 38 has 20 episodes.
Are new episodes of Shark Week Season 38 released weekly?
New episodes are released daily.
When is the Shark Week Season 38 finale?
The Shark Week Season 38 finale (Episode 20) aired Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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