He’s worked on Shark Week for more than two decades, but veteran filmmaker Jeff Kurr still experiences firsts. In Lair of the Mega Shark (premieres Aug. 12 at 10 p.m. Et on Discovery), Kurr and fellow shark expert/cameraman Andy Casagrande head to New Zealand to investigate the sightings of a 20-foot great white. As Kurr watches on a monitor aboard the boat, Casagrande and colleague Kina Scollay take part in the first-ever cage dive at night in those waters—where aggressive sharks are known to work in tandem as a gang. The resulting six-minute sequence could deliver the most...
- 8/12/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Discovery’s 27th Annual Shark Week officially kicks off Sunday, Aug. 10 with the premiere of Air Jaws: Fin of Fury (8 p.m. Et). Veteran filmmaker Jeff Kurr led his team on a two-year hunt for Colossus, the aggressive “mega-shark” with a deformed dorsal fin he famously captured breaching at Seal Island, South Africa, in 2011. Here’s a sneak peek of two of the hour’s most tense moments, with commentary from Kurr.
Moment No. 1: Local shark wrangler Dickie Chivell boards “Parthenope” to aid the search in South Africa.
To lure the massive male Colossus from the deep, Kurr and...
Moment No. 1: Local shark wrangler Dickie Chivell boards “Parthenope” to aid the search in South Africa.
To lure the massive male Colossus from the deep, Kurr and...
- 8/9/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
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