Trolling fishermen brought home a rare catch - video of a great white shark cruising the North Carolina coast and circling their boat.
Matt Garrett of Boston and some friends were fishing in a flat, calm sea about 25 miles from Wrightsville Beach. Garrett says the fish stopped biting and they saw the fins of the huge ocean predator.
Today is the official end of Shark Week (take a moment...) and the Discovery Channel is repeating the best of the best of their shark programming all day.
The full schedule is on their site, but let's list some of our very favorites:
We also suggest renting "Jaws" and then driving down to Kure Beach for a swim.
Goodbye, Shark Week! See you next summer!
First of all, the deadliest shark is whichever one eats you. That one immediately moves to the top of the deadliest shark list.
But as far as the deadliest types of sharks, Discovery lays that out for you in their "10 Deadliest Sharks" program, which comes in a two-part special starting at 8pm.
Featured: bull sharks, hammerheads, great whites, grey reef sharks, oceanic white-tips, and makos.
Also tonight, "Mythbusters: Shark Special 2" takes a look at common shark myths like, will chili powder repel sharks? I'm guessing no. That's at 10pm.
Tonight on "River Monsters" (9pm) Jeremy fishes for bull sharks in South Africa's freshwater rivers.
Note to self: In addition to oceans, also stay out of freshwater rivers.
Also on Discovery tonight, "Jaws of the Pacific" (8pm), which is pretty self-explanatory: it's about sharks found in the Pacific Ocean. There's also a repeat of "Into the Shark Bite" (10pm), which documents the power of a shark bite.
Our spotlight tonight is on "Shark Bites: Adventures in Shark Week," in which "Late, Late Show" host Craig Ferguson goes diving with sharks in the Bahamas.
You know, sharks don't care if you're famous. They will still eat you.
"Shark Bites," airing at 10pm on Discovery, also features first person accounts of shark attacks.
Other shark shows tonight are "Air Jaws II: Even Higher" (8pm) and "Ultimate Air Jaws" (9pm).
Tonight's Shark Week Spotlight is "Shark Bite Beach" (9pm), a new Discovery program which examines the summer of 2008, when sharks munched all up and down the coasts of California and Mexico.
The show includes re-enactments of attacks, reports from survivors, and guesses about what may have prompted the attacks.
At 7pm, Discovery is repeating "Shark Bite Summer," which recounts the crazy number of shark attacks during the summer of 2001. The 8pm offering, "Top Five Eaten Alive," is from 2007 and features five shark attack survivors telling harrowing tales of "too-close" encounters.
If you listened to me and stayed out of the ocean, you wouldn't need to watch tonight's feature, Shark Attack Survival Guide (9pm, Discovery).
You get tips for surviving shark attacks from former Green Beret Terry Schappert, who gets into the water with live sharks to recreate five scenarios based on survivors stories.
Also on tonight, Day of the Shark 3 (10pm) in which six shark attack survivors (including a Navy SEAL, a surfer, and a snorkeler) recount their experiences.
Tonight marks the beginning of Shark Week, when we all get to see sharks the way God intended: on our televisions.
Discovery starts things off at 9pm with a new show, Ultimate Air Jaws, full of scary great white sharks in South Africa that jump clear out of the water. One uplifting feature of this program is slowing down a shark's one-second assault to stretch out over an entire minute, for a really detailed look at the predator in action.
If you like that kind of thing, there's a repeat at 8pm of an oldie but a goodie, Air Jaws: The Sharks of South Africa. Same sort of stuff -- flying sharks leaping out of the water to snatch unsuspecting seals.
Then at 10pm, in Into the Shark Bite, the actual power of shark bite is documented (it's strong).
If you were alive during the summer of 1975, you developed a new fear. Of sharks.
That was the summer of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," the classic film, arguably the first blockbuster of the modern era, that film that made everyone afraid to go into the water.
Tonight at 9 the Bio channel premieres "Jaws: The Inside Story," a terrific two-hour, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.
