Super Shark Highway

8.5
2024

Two teams of researchers investigate the migration patterns of the ocean's largest and deadliest sharks. They follow their underwater routes and show their hunting behaviours, and social hierarchies.

Production

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Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 2024

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 1: Food, Glorious Food

1. Food, Glorious Food

A look at the different types of sharks that live in earth's oceans, while cameras follow a dangerous tagging mission in South Australia.

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 2: Love Bites

2. Love Bites

Tracking a pregnant shark along the Great Barrier Reef, before searching for signs of mating along the southern coast that could reveal a very shy female megashark.

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 3: Into the Darkness

3. Into the Darkness

The northern team attach an activity tag to a bull shark, before diving 80 metres deep to put a satellite tracker on a great white.

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 4: The Social Network

4. The Social Network

A team studies how young blacktips learn social and survival skills, while another tries to catch the sand tiger shark's most elusive behaviour - mating.

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 5: Detour

5. Detour

Investigating whether Greenly Island is popular with migrating great whites, as well as searching for a connection between northern bull sharks and their cooler-climate cousins.

Still image for Super Shark Highway season 1 episode 6: Careful, There's Humans Up There

6. Careful, There's Humans Up There

The southern team test new migration tech, while the northern team catch and tag bull sharks in a bid to help local swimmers.

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