One of my favorite times of the year has arrived! Shark Week on the discovery channel! For those of you that don’t know what shark week is… shark week is a week long special on the discovery channel that only shows episodes about sharks. And this year Les Stroud will have his own episode called “Surviving Skarks”.

The special will be about how to play it safe when encountering a shark in water. Les will be testing popular theories about shark encounters and will be traveling to to the Bahamas and South Africa… he’ll be seeing whether the behavior of Caribbean reef sharks and great whites changes depending upon the time of day. In South Africa Les will be analyzing the great white shark’s bite with marine biologist Jeremiah Sullivan. He’s also going to test whether kicking and splashing attracts sharks, and whether or not it’s safer to stay in a group or tread water alone if stranded in the ocean. Once again, it airs on Monday, July 28th, at 9pm.

Shark Week officially starts on Sunday, July 27th at 9pm with a brand new Mythbusters.

You can also see shots of Les with the sharks here.