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Shark Week: 2012

10 episodes Premiered Aug 12, 2012 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on Shark Week

Season 25 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Shark Week Season 24.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 25 Episodes

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Season 25: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S25·E1 Mytharc

Air Jaws Apocalypse

Aug 12, 2012 · 42 min

Picking up where 2011's Emmy®-nominated "Ultimate Air Jaws" left off, photographer, author and shark expert Chris Fallows and legendary natural history producer Jeff Kurr embark on

S25·E2 Core

Shark Week's Impossible Shots

Aug 12, 2012 · 42 min

A team of wildlife cameramen, led by Shark Week veteran Andy Casagrande, heads to Gansbaai, South Africa to try to secure a shot of a great white shark that no one has been able to

S25·E3 Core

Sharkzilla

Aug 13, 2012 · 42 min

To celebrate the monumental 25th anniversary of Shark Week, Discovery is resurrecting the largest shark to ever swim in our oceans, a predator so fierce he could have bitten a T. r

S25·E4 Mytharc

Mythbusters' Jawsome Shark Special

Aug 13, 2012 · 42 min

This year marks the 25th anniversary of what has become a truly epic week in television — and no celebration would be complete without the MythBusters. Adam Savage and Jamie Hynema

S25·E5 Core

How Jaws Changed The World

Aug 14, 2012 · 42 min

There are very few movies we can honestly say truly changed the world — but Jaws is one of them. Audiences stood in lines that wrapped entire city blocks to watch the world’s fir

S25·E6 Core

Adrift: 47 Days With Sharks

Aug 14, 2012 · 42 min

During a routine search and rescue mission over the Pacific in WWII, an American plane crashed into shark-infested waters. This is the inspiring true story of two war heroes — one

S25·E7 Core

Shark Fight

Aug 15, 2012 · 42 min

They've been through the ultimate nightmare: hand-to-jaw combat against the ocean's apex predators, losing limbs and barely escaping with their lives. Yet even after the attacks, t

S25·E8 Core

Great White Highway: Where the White Sharks Go

Aug 15, 2012 · 42 min

Ten of the most terrifying animal attacks filmed by eyewitnesses. Some of the world's biggest predators - a 15 foot shark, raging elephants, and a half ton bull turn their attentio

S25·E9 Mytharc

Shark Week's 25 Best Bites

Aug 16, 2012 · 42 min

Right outside the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is home to some of the biggest great white sharks in the world... but only for part of the year. Teams of scientists from Stan

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