Shark Calendar week is back on Discovery with the 2022 slate of new specials, and that means the returns of some fan-favorite series similar
Air Jaws
and
Great White Serial Killer. This year’s edition of
Great White Series Killer
is called
Fatal Christmas, and will tell the story of a surfer who died off the shore of California on Christmas Eve in 2021. Executive producer Jeff Kurr spoke with CinemaBlend and shared what to expect with how the special solves a tragic mystery.
Cracking White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas
will see bang-up white shark assail investigators using forensic testify and eyewitness reports to try and connect the dots about what happened and answer the question of what shark killed the surfer. Viewers volition take to melody in to encounter the journey, merely executive producer Jeff Kurr spoke about his work in the franchise and how investigators croaky the case, saying:
I've been working on a serial chosen Bully White Serial Killer since 2013, and they've been extremely popular episodes because we really wait into some of the behaviors of great white sharks, as they're associated with attacks on humans. What we embrace in Great White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas is a human who was killed past a great white off Morro Bay on Christmas Eve terminal twelvemonth. We were actually able to determine the exact size of the shark involved, and and so somewhen we discover the exact shark. Nosotros know his name. Nosotros know he was in that location. And that'southward all due to new technology, satellite engineering science.
Shark Calendar week has been going strong and growing
since its debut in 1988, but using satellite technology to solve the mystery of the killer shark is something that probable couldn’t have been achieved fifty-fifty as recently equally a few years ago.
Fatal Christmas
volition deliver some answers about what happened on Christmas Eve 2021, but that wasn’t the simply goal in this investigation. Jeff Kurr connected:
Ultimately, we expect into this attack, but we besides want to prevent attacks in the future past hopefully informing people well-nigh when sharks are in their surface area and when they should avoid the water and things that they should do to try to avoid assail. Only [it’s a] very emotional touching story of this guy, Thomas Butterfield, who was killed by a great white, and you really get to know his story and it'south just astonishing to actually call up that we tin can pinpoint the exact shark that killed him. That'south never been done before. So just some other amazing show that we were able to put together this twelvemonth.
Jeff Kurr certainly has the Shark Week experience to vouch for when shows are especially amazing, every bit he has been office of Discovery’southward calendar week of shark programming for decades. He also has no fewer than four specials ambulation this twelvemonth.
Great White Open Ocean
was a cinematic special that
followed his friend’s “miraculous” story of survival
against all odds, and
Air Jaws: Tiptop Guns
volition bring in two of Shark Calendar week’s nigh familiar faces to effort and make history.
Shark Firm
will brand the fourth of Kurr’southward specials in 2022.
Be certain to tune in
to Discovery
on Monday, July 25 at 9 p.m. ET to catch
Bully White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas
every bit the latest installment in that deadly Shark Week series. It will be a nighttime packed with must-see shark action, starting with
Stranger Sharks
(featuring
Stranger Things
player Noah Schnapp) at seven p.g. and standing with
Air Jaws: Tops Guns
back in South Africa on the search for breaching great whites at 8 p.m. ET to lead into
Great White Serial Killer. The final special of the night volition be
Ascent of the Monster Hammerheads
at ten p.grand. ET with researchers searching for answers about two legendary great hammerheads.
For some more viewing options now and in the not-too-afar future, exist sure to take a wait at our
2022 Telly premiere schedule, and check back with CinemaBlend for more than coverage of Shark Calendar week 2022 on Discovery. You tin can find more shark content streaming on Discovery+, which is also
the home of many truthful crime series and documentaries.
