Discovery Channel Shark Week 20th Anniversary Collection (2007)

Experience real life shark attack rescues as we travel to some of the most popular, and most dangerous, beaches around the world.

Investigate the secrets that swirl around the world's most deadly and misunderstood marine predator. Find out why these creatures of the deep are attacking people around the globe in great numbers and learn the best ways to survive an attack.

Shark! Just the word itself invokes fear and dread. But what is it that causes these vicious man-eaters to attack? This question and many more are answered in the incredible survival story, ANATOMY OF A SHARK BITE. On April 9, 2002, celebrated behavioral scientist Dr. Erich Ritter was severely bitten by a 350-lb bull shark. Through an astonishing combination of computer-generated imaging, state-of-the-art robotics and shocking footage of the incident - the only shark attack on a human being ever caught on film - Dr. Ritter recreates his terrifying ordeal, in this unbelievable-but-true shark's tale.

The great white shark is the most dangerous and feared shark today. But earth's ancient oceans were rules by an even more menacing ancestor, nicknamed Megatooth - the most spectacular marine predator to ever roam the seas. This mega-shark was as large as a bus and enjoyed festing on whales.

The darkness, depth and vastness of the ocean have long hidden the real behaviour of sharks. Now, armed with the latest high-tech underwater equipment, marine biologists are able to observe the shark 24 hours a day, revealing startling new behaviours. This program offers a glimpse into this mysterious world as never seen before.

The bull shark: nine feet of pure brawn, one of the most aggressive animals on Earth. Bulls don't fear man at all and enjoy huntung in the shallows. They even pursue their prey in fresh water, bringing them in direct contact with people. Witness a thrashing bull ripping a large ray in half, and meet the fisherman who lost a leg to a bull shark and lived to tell the tale.

Thanks to new technology, the great white shark once thought to prefer ony coastal waters, is now believed to make transoceanic crossings. For the first time, follow the great white shark on it's long migration across the Pacific... from the hunting grounds in Northern California to Mexico and on to Hawaii.

We travel to the waters off Mexico's western coastline, which hosts a diverse population of ocean creatures, including the whale shark, the white-tip reef shark and the Galapagos shark. Join us as we search for and swim with these magnificent creatures through some of the most beautiful seas in the world.

The great white shark, the world's most notorious predator, exhibits a newly discovered attack behaviour that will make your jaw drop. The aerial attacks of these animals, who hurtle their enormous 2,000-pound bodies into the air, rank among the most spectacular predatory events in nature.

Does "Air Jaws" only live in one secluded bay in South Africa, or does he roam the world's oceans, waiting for the right opportunity to go airborne? Travel to Australia with an artificial seal created by one of Hollywood's top special effects experts in an attempt to encourage the sharks to fly.

If you want to find some of the world's biggest, fastest, scariest and weirdest sharks, you can find them in American waters. Take a journey to the country's best shark hot-spots from Maine to Alaska and spend time with people who have barely escaped fatal shark encounters.

The Brazilian city of Recife is under siege. Until a decade ago, surfers flocked to the city's shores - then the shark attacks began, killing or maming dozens of surfers and swimmers. To unravel the mystery of this "shark rebellion" an international team of scientists hunt fir clues along Recife's golden coastline.

This is the story of Frank "Monster Man" Mundus, a legendary great white shark hunter whose real life stories may have inspired Jaws' infamous Quint. Now Mundus comes out of retirment for a final shark adventure.

it's the stuff of nightmares...begin attacked by the most fearsome predator in the ocean. Catch up with actual shark attack survivors and discover how the encounters have affected their lives. Learn some surprising reasons why the attacks occured - challenging our assumptions about these man-eating predators.