Shark Week

- Season 11

(2010)

In 2002, as behavioral scientist Erich Ritter was filming in the Bahamas with Discovery Channel, he was bit in the calf by a bull shark. The attack was caught on tape, and in this special, footage from the accident is shown, as well as a look at some computer-generated imaging which explores how and why different breeds of sharks bite.

Supermodel Heidi Klum and naturalist Nigel Marven dive with Caribbean reef sharks in the Bahamas.

Manny Puig is profiled in his television special, as the Floridian hand-feeds bull sharks, swims with makos, and introduces us to his good friend, a lemon shark. The remarkable thing about Puig and his relation to the sharks is the fact that he refuses to use cages, or wear armor or repellent, when swimming with sharks.

A 6-foot-long animatronic shark featuring on-board cameras, Robo Shark is designed to blend in with real sharks and capture never-before-seen wild shark behavior. Footage shown in this television special includes the deep-sea thresher shark in the Philippines; giant whale sharks feeding off the coast of Belize; and deadly hammerheads, great whites and bronze whaler sharks in South Africa.

Bringing together the latest information from the International Shark Attack File, underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy counts down the world's top 10 shark-attack hot spots and assesses your chances of being attacked.

The great white shark was once thought to prefer only coastal waters; today, data collected by satellite transmitters attached to the sharks indicate this ultimate predator actually makes transoceanic crossings. In this television special, the mysterious great white's long migration across the Pacific is studied, where it reaches depths of 2,000 feet and travels up to 43 miles a day.