Shark Bites: Full TV Schedule and Live Stream For Kids
Steve Backshall travels around the world to learn about sharks.
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1. Mako Shark
Steve Backshall learns about sharks. Steve snorkels alongside mako sharks off the coast of San Diego in California and gets under their skin in his shark lab.
2. Great White Shark
Steve Backshall learns about sharks. Steve looks at what makes the great white shark such a perfect predator and one of the greatest hunters on the planet.
3. Whale Shark
Steve Backshall learns about sharks. Steve reveals the surprising diet of the largest fish in the world, the whale shark.
4. Ragged Tooth Shark
Steve Backshall learns about sharks. Steve meets the most sinister shark in our seas, the ragged tooth shark, with a mouth of terrifying teeth.
5. Tiger Shark
Steve Backshall meets the most ravenous shark in the sea, the tiger shark. Known for eating tin cans and even car number plates, these sharks are in fact perfectly honed hunters.
6. Hammerhead Shark
Steve Backshall meets the hammerhead shark, a shark with some serious supersenses. Steve reveals how it detects dinner like a metal detector finds treasure.
7. Nurse Shark
Steve Backshall reveals the supersucker of all sharks, the nurse shark. This shark uses its specialist mouth and vacuum-like suction to devour its dinner.
8. Lemon Shark
Steve Backshall learns about sharks. Here, he meets the lemon shark - the snappiest shark in the world - while diving in the Bahamas in the Caribbean.
9. Blacktip Shark
Steve Backshall meets a shark that is a master of teamwork - the blacktip shark. The blacktip isn't the largest shark in its territory, so it adopts a sensible solution to survive.
10. Basking Shark
Steve Backshall learns about our very own gentle giant - the basking shark. It can be found in the UK's coastal waters every spring and summer.
11. Silky Shark
Steve Backshall encounters a seriously smooth shark. He dives with the silky shark in the wild, and gets under their smooth skin in his lab.
12. Sixgill Shark
Steve Backshall heads to Canada to learn about the sixgill shark, which has barely changed in 200 million years.
13. Thresher Shark
Steve Backshall encounters the most striking shark of all - the thresher shark. Steve dives with two of these stunning sharks off the coast of the Philippines.
14. Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Steve Backshall meets the oceanic whitetip, revealing in his lab how these sharks rely on fantastic fins to dive and swim huge distances.
15. Epaulette Shark
Steve Backshall looks at the epaulette shark, which lives in shallow, tidal waters and is able to survive out of water for a long period of time.
16. Bull Shark
Steve Backshall meets the MOST MENACING shark, the bull shark, off the coast of Mexico.
17. Manta Ray
Steve Backshall reveals another side to sharks. Manta rays may not appear to look like sharks but they are part of the same family, and are the most graceful fish in our seas.
18. Blue Shark
Steve Backshall reveals another side to sharks. Steve tracks down the blue shark, which migrates around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
19. Caribbean Reef Shark
Steve meets a shark that is the master of moves. The Caribbean reef shark has lightning-quick reaction times and is one seriously flexible fish.
Episode 20
Steve Backshall goes to the coast of Malaysian Borneo where he meets the whitetip reef shark, which turns into a highly honed hunter at night.
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