Shark Week

Among the myths tackled in this Shark Week special: Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks?

Les Stroud puts himself in some of the most frightening scenarios imaginable to find out what, if anything, you can do when you cross paths with some of the deadliest species of sharks on the planet.

From great whites invading high tide to a bull shark spotting a college co-ed, interactions between sharks and humans can have bloody consequences. The science behind what triggers sharks to attack at certain times is revealed.

In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man : the Greenland shark.

A team of amatuer shark enthusiasts travel to the Bahamas to swim with sharks and test just how hard it is to be bitten by a shark...or is it? Tiger sharks, lemon sharks, and Caribbean Reef sharks appear for the experiments.

A cross-discipline scientific team undertakes the largest shark tagging expedition in Australian history. Their mission: To discover the cause for the mysterious decline of sharks off northeast Australia and to record the secret behaviors of sharks.