The Shark Bum

In 1985 Discovery Channel premiered on cable television, soon after, the higher ups at the network needed to find a way to attract more viewers….and a phenomenon was created. For the last 23 years Shark Week has brought in over 20 million viewers each year, and has become a staple of summer television.
This years six features include Ultimate Air Jaws, which takes a look at the seal hunting tactics of the great white, and their propensity to fly out of the water to capture their elusive prey. The difference with this years air jaws show is the new and super slow motion camera shots at 2000 frames per second of this amazing feat.

There is also Into The Shark Bite where the documentarians risk life and limb to place a camera into the mouth of some of the world’s deadliest sharks, and Shark Attack Survival follows host Terry Schappert as he jumps into the water with the beasts to give us a first hand guide on how to escape a shark attack.
Two other documentaries focus on shark attack survivors, Day of Shark 3, and Shark Bite Beach give some first hand accounts, and recreations of some of the most dramatic stories you’ve ever heard.

The final new feature of the popular week is Shark Bites: Adventures in Shark Week. This takes shark week host Craig Ferguson off of his late night couch and throws him in the water. The show is a compilation of Ferguson’s experiences feeding sharks in the Bahamas, and some of the most exciting shark week moments over the last 23 years. It looks to be a great mixture of fear and funny.
Each year there are so many of us that get excited for this week of television. The mysteries of sharks have kept us riveted for years and continue to do so. There is so much that we still don’t know about these mystifying creatures, but that’s why we love this week of t.v. even more every year.

So many people have had a lot to say about this coveted time, but the best that I’ve ever heard came from comedian Tracy Morgan. Tracy says that “we should live every week like its Shark Week”. The features will repeat throughout the week so DVR them if you can, and live your week. Well said Tracy, well said.