This Shark Week, take your fascination even deeper. While millions tune in to Discovery Channel for thrilling footage of the ocean’s top predators, we’re celebrating with a curated list of seven must-watch episodes featuring our very own Dr. Neil Hammerschlag—renowned shark ecologist, explorer, and founder of Atlantic Shark Expeditions.
From heart-pounding great white encounters to groundbreaking tracking research, these episodes reveal the science, mystery, and awe behind sharks in the wild. You’ll find them across Discovery+ and Disney+, including content from Shark Week and National Geographic’s SharkFest collections.
Watch one each day this week, then come meet the real sharks off Nova Scotia’s coast with us aboard Canada’s only public shark research expedition.
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Stream on: Disney+
Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and his team of researchers are setting off on a quest to learn more about this mysterious shark, as well as search for the most elusive of them all, the massive Great Hammerhead.
Stream on: Discovery+
Tiger sharks are known for their voracious appetite, but little is known about where they mate and where the females give birth. Dr. Neil Hammerschlag travels to the shallow waters of the Bahamas to find answers.
Stream on: Disney+
In 2012, Marine Ecologist, Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and his team of student researchers caught the largest bull shark ever recorded off the coast of southern Florida; they named her Big Bull. Now, Neil enlists former Royal Marine Commando, James Glancy and Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Toby Daly-Engel to pick up Big Bull’s trail and uncover the mysteries of Florida’s Mega Sharks.
Stream on: Discovery+
With Sharkmania facts and bonus scenes. Neil Hammershlag and Enrico Gennari use a drone-towed seal decoy to study and capture harrowing and dramatic battles between sharks and seals in the waters off South Africa.
Stream on: Discovery+
Dr. Neil Hammerschlag leads a team that includes cameraman Joe Romeiro and local expert Alex Hearn to the Galapagos to document how, in the last 10 years, tiger sharks have reset the underwater order in one of the sharkiest places on the planet.
Stream on: Discovery+
Famed shark photographer Chris Fallows embarks on his eighth Air Jaws adventure with shark expert Jeff Kurr and shark biologist Dr. Neil Hammerschlag as they discover how great white sharks hunt in total darkness.
Stream on: Discovery+
Master illusionist Andrew Mayne attempts to create the first-of-its-kind shark suit to overcome the senses of a great white shark and make him invisible to the world’s most perfect predator.
Dr. Hammerschlag’s on-screen work offers a thrilling window into the lives of sharks. But the most powerful impact comes when you step off the screen and onto the water.
Join us this summer for a real-world shark experience that contributes directly to conservation science. Our expeditions depart daily from Sambro, Nova Scotia, and bring you face to face with blue sharks, makos, porbeagles, and more — all under the guidance of the same scientist you’ve been watching all week.
Can’t make it to the water? Support shark conservation by donating to the Shark Research Foundation, or follow along on social media for daily updates and behind-the-scenes footage from our expeditions.
Happy Shark Week — and see you on the boat.
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