Here’s what’s on deck for the Discovery mega-marathon

Just after you thought it had been safe to travel back within the front room.

Shark Week returns Sunday night on Discovery Channel, launching seven fintastic days of sharks swimming, hunting, manduction and usually sharking up TV screens.

This year, the marathon kicks off at eight p.m. on Gregorian calendar month twenty eight with “Expedition Unknown: Megalodon,” a deep dive into the planet of the horrendous prehistoric predator, that went extinct scores of years past. specialists provide their theories on why the 60-ton beastie died out whereas commenting on its continuing pop-culture attractiveness in movies like last year’s Jason Statham starrer “The one thousand thousand.”

After that, a two-hour venture entitled “Shark Trip: Eat. Pray. Chum.” (9 p.m. on Discovery), takes a rather a lot of tooth-in-cheek approach to the topic matter, causation funnymen Anthony Anderson, Adam DeVine, Joel McHale and Damon Wayans Junior. out on a “guy’s trip” spearheaded by comedian Rob Riggle, a retired Marine Corps Reserve officer. At one purpose, Wayans and Anderson step into a “human aquarium” (a clear box plunged into shark-infested waters) and McHale and DeVine joyously toss crony around it from the relative safety of a close-by boat; can Packer, United Nations agency created comedy hit “Girls Trip,” is concerned.

Cape Cod is mentioned extensively in Monday’s event, “Sharks of the Badlands” (8 p.m.). within the special, Greg Skomal – Program Manager and Senior person at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries – joins forces with shark researchers Andy Casagrande and Papuan monetary unit Scollay. From New Zealand, all 3 check shark-detecting police investigation technology Skomal hopes may save lives on peninsula.

Massachusetts has been experiencing a shocking wave of shark sightings in recent weeks, with the foremost recent returning Sabbatum off the coast of Nauset Beach in Orleans, wherever a separate nice white watching had been confirmed only 1 day earlier. Over a hundred and fifty nice white sharks were labeled  on the Cape last summer; in Sep, for the primary time in eighty years, a shark attack within the region verified fatal. Skomal recently told the world he’s been learning the good white’s searching associated feeding habits as a part of an intensive effort to create Cape Cod’s coasts safer for swimmers.

On deck at Discovery: based-on-a-true-story “Capsized: Blood within the Water,” the primary motion picture created for Shark Week. The giving (premiering Wed at nine p.m) stars razz Duhamel mutually poor soul aboard a yacht that capsized in Oct of 1982, deed the crew with the unenviable task of extant within the Atlantic Ocean for days as sharks circle.

A full course of specials can air throughout the week. Highlights embody “Legend of Deep Blue” (a rummage around for the world’s biggest nice white; Mon at nine p.m.), “Sharkwrecked: Crash Landing” (in that hosts plunge from planes into shark-infested waters; weekday at eight p.m.), “Return to Shark Island” (studying Réunion’s shark crisis; Th at eight p.m.) associated “Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver” (in that an illusionist makes an attempt build} a shark suit which will make him invisible to the predator; weekday at nine p.m.).

Discovery’s utilizing progressive shark-related technology for this year’s marathon, together with segments that create use of a ‘drone-towed’ seal decoy further as advanced police investigation instrumentality. The marathon – originally launched in 1988 as how to market ocean conservation efforts whereas repudiation myths concerning the deep sea’s well-liked|hottest|most well liked|preferred|most well-liked} predator – has taken a much bigger let loose of popular culture in recent years, with viewers following on on social media platforms. 34.9 million total viewers were calculable to own tuned in last year.

Shark Week runs Gregorian calendar month twenty eight to August four this year, spanning twenty hours of shark-related programming; it’ll be streamable on Discovery Channel’s web site further as via the invention Go app.