One of "Shark Week's" highlights is swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, racing a Great white.
While the Great White swam the race at a slow pace - with brief bursts of speed - Phelps attempted to outpace the shark by cruising and maintaining the same steady rate.
This week Michael Phelps is due to take on a great white shark in a race as he takes part in Discovery's Shark Week 2017.
Sure, Phelps has 28 Olympic medals. Unsurprisingly, this doesn't mean that the two competitors will be swimming side by side in their respective lanes, but rather that each will swim a specified length so that the people involved in the Shark Week special can compare their speeds.
Discovery spent the majority of the telecast waxing poetic about the great white shark and projected it to swim 100 meters in under 40 seconds.
10 p.m. - "Alien Sharks: Stranger Fins" A look at sawsharks and goblins - and many more, including ghost sharks, frilled sharks, and the wonderful luminescent lantern. "Sharks are one of my favourite animals in the world".
Danilo: Guardiola was a key factor in joining Man City
Real coach Zinedine Zidane said the 26-year-old Brazil global has left the club's training base in Los Angeles to have a City medical.
The world championships' swim events start Sunday, when Ledecky looks to defend her 400m freestyle title, but those United States swimmers not involved will be following Phelps' shark race. But they do have big shark teeth and sometimes bad things happen when sharks and humans meet in the water. What is it about volcanoes that make them shark hotspots?
Shark Exile: (9 p.m. July 27) Looking for a way to reduce shark attacks.
Before the 32-year-old sports icon took on the massive beast, he had to learn everything he could about all different kinds of sharks with the help of Dr. Tristan Guttridge. You can watch this show on July 26th at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
10 p.m. - "Lair Of The Sawfish" Experts unravel the mystery behind one of the sea's strangest creatures, the sawfish, from its evolutionary links to sharks and rays, to its key role in the marine ecosystem.
Shark Swarm: (8 p.m. July 25) Explores underwater oases where sharks congregate in huge numbers. As a result, while Phelps vs. Shark could be worth watching, its basic premise sounds rather weak.
Comments