It’s as inevitable each summer as sunburn. But you don’t have to go outside or splash on calamine lotion.
It’s Shark Week, which, since 1988, has been a jaws-somely popular programming event on Discovery Channel. It airs Sunday through Friday.
Sink your teeth into this year’s lineup:
“Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite” (9 p.m. Sunday): Ouch! Host Mike Rowe climbs into a shark cage in South Africa and comes face to face with great whites, then tags great whites for migratory observation, and creates and tests (on himself) a shark repellant.
“Shark Attack Survivors” (9 p.m. Monday): Chew on this serving of shark-attack case studies and firsthand accounts, which delivers important information on how you can avoid or survive a shark encounter.
“Perfect Shark” (9 p.m. Tuesday): Who would search for a Perfect 10 version a shark? Host Mike deGruy would. He’s filmed sharks for more than 30 years, and now heads out to sea looking for the most streamlined and extreme shark specimens. (Bo Derek with a fin?)
“Sharks: Are They Hunting Us?” (9 p.m. Wednesday): Animal behaviorist Dave Salmoni, a relative novice around sharks, meets with shark experts to ask the questions any ordinary guy might wonder. Like: Do sharks get a kick out of scaring humans?
“Shark Rebellion” (9 p.m. Thursday): The Brazilian port city of Recife recorded only one shark attack in 75 years. Then, in the past decade, 45 attacks have taken place, with 16 fatalities. What changed? Is something getting sharks hot under the collar?
“Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite Harder” (9 p.m. Friday): When will this guy learn? Mike Rowe is back to test a chain-mail shark suit in the middle of a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks, among other all-in-a-day’s-work chores.
“Science of Shark Sex” (10 p.m. Friday): Ooh-la-la! Traveling to the Tiputa pass in French Polynesia where gray reef sharks are concentrated, a group of international scientists study their mating habits, which have never before been captured on film. Early findings: Sharks have no intimacy issues, nor do they blush.
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