We have been waiting almost one year for the 2025 rundown of Shark Week, and we have finally received the news! The Shark Week Calendar is now live on Discovery! Let me just say…It looks JAW-some! From Shark mating habits to Dancing with the Sharks, there will be a show for everyone! It looks like even the extremely popular show Caught! will be back with Sharks Strike Back!

Now here is the big news we have all been waiting for. Drum roll please…Dickie Chivell is BACK! The man, the legend, the shark expert we have all come to love, is returning to Shark Week in the new show, Great White Assassins! After his long ordeal with the prospect of never being able to do what he loves again, Dickie Chivell defied all odds and is returning to his life among the Sharks! This time, instead of living underwater or walking along the bottom of the ocean in shark infested waters, Dickie will pose as an Orca to see how Great Whites react. Yup, he is returning to these shark infested waters to learn how an Orca takes down a Great White and the implications this hunting behavior has had on the sharks migrating habits. I will certainly be watching Great White Assassins!

There are many more episodes to look forward to within the Shark Week line up! Here is a list and details from the calendar:

• July 20, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Dancing with the Sharks
    • Hosted by Emmy® Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron, Dancing with Sharks is a competition show unlike any other. For the first time ever, five divers compete to put together an amazing underwater routine with their toothy partners. From hammerheads to tigers and nurse sharks, each shark has its own signature dance moves. At the end of the show, a winner is crowned – if all the competitors make it that far.
  • 9PM ET/PT – Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus
    • A 20-foot great white breaches in New Zealand, sparking a hunt for Colossus – the legendary flying shark who went missing 10 years ago from South Africa’s waters. Could he still be alive and lead researchers to a secret colony of lost great whites?
  • 10PM ET/PT – Great White Assassins (YES)
    • Shark expert Alison Towner teams up with Shark Week legend Dickie Chivell to decode how killer whales take down great whites with ease. To get answers, the team travels to New Zealand and goes to the extreme, sending Dickie underwater posed as an orca to see how the great whites react.
• July 21, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – “Great White Sex Battle
    • In a Shark Week first, male and female great white sharks compete in a series of challenges to determine which sex is the superior predator in the waters off the coast of New Zealand.
  • 9PM ET/PT – 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.
  • 10PM ET/PT – In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm
    • In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras capture 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.
• July 22, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Great White Northern Invasion
    • Great white sharks have found a new home off the shores of Nova Scotia, Canada. With the waters now frothing with great whites, interactions with humans are on the rise. A team of scientists tracks down and tags the biggest sharks to uncover the sharkiest locations before there’s a fatal attack.
  • 9PM ET/PT – How to Survive a Shark Attack
    • Shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder attempts the unthinkable – getting attacked by a shark, again. Under the supervision of experts, Paul provokes sharks to attack him in multiple scenarios, where they bite and tear off prosthetic limbs to teach life-saving tactics for surviving an encounter with nature’s deadliest predators.
  • 10PM ET/PT – Black Mako of the Abyss
    • When Shark Tagger Keith Poe saw the shark for the first time, he knew it was different. It was aggressive, 13-feet long and had very dark skin. Now, a group of experts lure the beast up from the abyss to determine if the creature is a mako, or mutant, or possibly, a mako and great white hybrid.
• July 23, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Expedition Unknown: Shark Files
    • Global adventurer Josh Gates solves some of the strangest and most disturbing shark mysteries of all-time, including the real-life bloody inspiration for the movie Jaws and the gruesome case of the Tiger Shark who vomited an arm while living in captivity and ultimately helped police solve a murder mystery.
  • 9PM ET/PT – Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark
    • Josh Gates sends Phil Torres and Heather Amaro on their most perilous mission yet – tracking a legendary monster shark that lurks in the eerie waters of Malpelo Island, 300 miles off Colombia’s coast. After terrifying footage of this monster is brought to Josh, he sends his fearless team deep into the ocean to unmask the true identity of this 20-foot-long predator.
  • 10PM ET/PT – Alien Sharks: Death Down Under
    • Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante injects himself with shark venom after diving down under into Australia’s dangerous waters, home to some of the weirdest, alien-like and deadly sharks. He hopes this risky and potentially lethal experiment will bypass years of red tape to finally discover the potency of the venomous Port Jackson Shark and Ghost Shark.
• July 24, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Surviving Jaws
    • Fifty years ago, Jaws changed the beachgoing experience forever – striking fear into millions of Americans who vowed to never go in the water again. Now, marine biologist Tom “Blowfish” Hird and predator ecologist Michelle Jewell re-examine the movie and dive with Great Whites to separate fact from fiction, answering questions like: does skinny dipping really attract great white sharks? Could a monster shark chew through a boat’s hull?
  • 9PM ET/PT – Caught! Sharks Strike Back
    • This year has set a record for shark encounters captured on camera, from a hilarious moment when a shark slaps a fisherman in the face to the intense 10-minutes a great white stalked a kayaker… these are craziest moments of when sharks strike back.
  • 10PM ET/PT – Frankenshark
    • Shark expert Tristan Guttridge and his team use CGI to create the ultimate apex predator. Pulling from a variety of shark species, they build the deadliest, weirdest shark on the planet and put it to the test in a high-stakes showdown against a killer orca.
• July 25, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Great White Reign of Terror
    • In South Africa, two people are killed by great whites near the eastern cape, an area that hasn’t seen an attack in decades. Scientists worry it could be the start of a series of attacks eerily similar to Black December in 1957, when six people lost their lives. Ryan Johnson, Gibbs Kuguru and Andy Casagrande head out to investigate the cause behind the spike in attacks before there’s another fatality.
  • 9PM ET/PT – Florida’s Death Beach
    • The numbers are in, and once again, Florida – specifically New Smyrna Beach – has earned the title of “The Shark Attack Capital of the World,” accounting for 30% of global shark attacks. But why has the popular spring break, party beach become so deadly? Forrest Galante and his team investigate before even more blood ends up in the water.
  • 10PM ET/PT – Bull Shark Showdown
    • The most vicious and insane populations of bull sharks from Australia and America faceoff in a no-holds-barred showdown beneath the water. Bull Shark-attack survivor Paul de Gelder contends that his Aussie sharks are the toughest, while American shark biologist Dr. Craig O’Connell attempts to find the meanest sharks Florida has to offer to take the crown.
• July 26, 2025
  • 8PM ET/PT – Attack of the Devil Shark
    • A rogue Tiger Shark attacks and kills a person in St. Martin. Weeks later, it strikes again. Locals fear it could be the work of the legendary Devil Shark – a massive and ruthless tiger shark who’s haunted their shores for decades. When a team sets out to track down the shark responsible for the attacks, they uncover a seismic force that may be triggering aggression in sharks.
    • 9PM ET/PT – Battle for Shark Mountain
      • 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.
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Which episode are you most looking forward to? Share in the comments!

Discovery Channel has finally dropped Jaw-some news! The 37th year of Shark Week starts July 20, 2025! That means our summer nights will be filled with shark facts, shark tricks, shark science, and maybe even a few shark absurdities…especially if the SYFY channel gets involved. I do believe we all remember the epic tales of Sharknado.

However, the absurdities are not fully in the SYFY Channel’s corner. Shark Week is also known to bring in a few characters who think jumping over sharks or swimming in a feeding frenzy are good ideas. This year, Discovery Channel is trying something completely unprecedented; they are hosting their first ever ‘Dancing With Sharks’ Shark Week Special. If you pictured a person in a dress holding onto a shark dancing the Waltz, you may not be far off.

According to Discovery Channel, five expert divers will “blend skill, grace, and the daring pursuit of the ultimate underwater thrill” in a choreographed competition. The underwater dance will include crazy dance moves that were invented for these performances including the Hammerhead Hoedown and Tiger Trot.

It would actually be funny to see Dickie Chivell dancing with a great white. In fact…Discovery Channel, let’s make this happen!

Hosted by Emmy® Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron, Dancing With Sharks will redefine dancing with danger as each contestant looks to impress the judges with their take on thunniform swimming.

Discovery Channel will release a full programming schedule for “Shark Week” in the coming weeks. So keep an eye out for the soon -to-be epic list of Shark Week fun!