‘Shark Week’ Returns for 28th Year With First Cuban Visit

Shark Week concludes with Shark Island, in which scientists try to figure out the reasoning behind the multitude of attacks at Reunion Island, which has become the most unsafe place in the world as far as shark attacks.

First, Discovery’s 28th Shark Week returns Sunday and runs through July 12.

“Shark Trek” – July 5, 8 p.m.

This special features teams with competing goals: one is hoping to record the speed of the mako (the fastest shark in the ocean), and the other is hoping to prove that the mako is an ambush predator.

Well, maybe not. Not with the recent spate of shark attacks in North Carolina. Discovery is calling it the biggest exploration yet into Atlantic great whites.

10 p.m. – Tiburones – Sharks of Cuba: A shark expedition in Cuba brings together American and Cuban scientists in search of a great white shark population in an area of the world untouched by man for decades. A rare sighting is caught on film as a mako shark breaches the waters during the expedition. Nat Geo WILD’s third annual SHARKFEST continues a tradition of focusing on the facts, featuring a week of insights from shark experts and incredible footage of shark behavior to get a comprehensive look at the species in all their glory.

Alien Sharks: Close Encounters – 10 p.m. ET – The search for alien sharks that glow in the dark.

Return of the Great White Serial Killer seeks to find answers for a series of Great White shark attacks that have occurred with clocklike precision at the same beach, in the same month, every two years.

Shark Planet- Thursday, July 9 at 9/8c. This year, a 20-foot megamouth shark is tagged off the eastern coast of Taiwan. With a full three hours of content from 9 p.m.to 11 p.m. every night-more total hours than any year before-Shark Week 2015 is expected to make quite the “splash”.

Filmmaker Ian Shive and a courageous team of shark researchers traveled to Havana and other parts of Cuba earlier this year to see for themselves the untapped wonders of this region and, for the first time, satellite tag a shark or two. Here, we see terrifying and heart-rending video of shark attack victims, not in the USA locations mentioned above, but in a dazzling and remote corner of the Indian Ocean. Locals believe that this shark is responsible for countless fatal attacks, but its existence has never been proven.

To spread the word, Discovery sent TV critics a box with their very own shark fin hoodie and shark fin soap (cardboard fin in a Lush bar, sale price donated to United Conservationists).

“Sharks of the Shadowland” – July 10, 9 p.m.

Ungrounded because sharks aren’t really a huge threat to humans. From Racing Extinction director Louie Psihoyos to SHARK WEEK regulars like Jeff Kurr and Andy Casagrande, our Shark Finbassadors will be appearing in a daily original video series throughout SHARK WEEK; chatting live with fans on Facebook, Meerkat, Twitter, and even inside a shark tank; and sharing their greatest shark imagery on the official SHARK WEEK Instagram account.

Shark Island (WT) explores the latest in a string of deadly bull shark attacks.