Shark Week is back, and it’s got dancing shoes on

Kinga Phillipps reigns as unofficial Shark Queen for this year s Shark Week Discovery with not one not two but three shark specials beginning tonight on Discovery It s a natural spot for Phillipps I have to say I have a great relationship with sharks and have enjoyed all my time spent in the water getting near them she revealed in a video interview Obviously I am still here So that bodes well for this relationship As for her very unique very different Shark Week trio of films nothing seems more comical crazy or bizarrely real than the premiere Dancing with Sharks It s a competition show that as the saying goes necessities to be seen to be concluded Five divers compete to put together an amazing underwater routine with their toothy partners from hammerheads to tigers and nurse sharks Each shark has its own signature dance moves Part of the fun is that people really don t know what to make of it They wonder Are the sharks dancing Who s dancing And in reality everybody s dancing It s so much fun is incredibly shark positive and really speaks to how amazing these animals are Also our contestants are particular of the best shark handlers in the world Thursday s Caught Sharks Strike Back is an assemblage of clips of shark encounters captured on camera They range from the fun of seeing a shark slap a fisherman in the face to a Great White s intense -minute stalking of a kayaker That one Phillipps predicted will be very gripping to people who love to dissect shark encounters We have shark experts speaking to videos that are presented to us about shark encounters What s really gripping is you can dissect them look at what led to an encounter and what could have been done for a different outcome People interested in shark behavior will really like that one Saturday s Attack of the Devil Shark considers a rogue tiger shark attack that killed a swimmer in St Martin and a sparse weeks later struck again Locals wondered whether it was their legendary Devil Shark That s a more serious rather dramatic show One attack was fatal and in the other one a girl lost her leg They did a forensic analysis on the casualties and it was the same tiger shark So part of what we were doing in the show is we are taking biopsies of the tiger sharks that we encountered to see if we could identify that specific shark Part of what s absorbing to us as conservationists researchers and scientists was trying to determine if this population of sharks is impacted somehow by the climate and where they live Dancing with Sharks premieres tonight at p m on Discovery Allison Holker Tom Bergeron Kinga Phillipps and Pete Holmes left to right in Dancing With Sharks Photo courtesy Warner Bros Discovery