SharkFest
8/7c, National Geographic
This annual celebration of our oceans’ apex predators dives in with three new specials. In (8/7c), biologists investigate (9/8c) explores growing global accounts of the sea hunters dining on one another. Seeking evidence, experts (above: scientist Dr. Enrico Gennari and conservationist Brian McFarlane) go deep in a bay off South Africa’s southern coast, where great white sharks boasting 300 teeth stalk others. (10/9c) explores whether dolphins or whales will deliberately rescue a human from an attack. The scientific community is divided; the lucky survivors—not so much.
