Shark Week has given people front row access to the world of sharks, explains the crucial role of predator within the ecosystem, ensuring that humans respect sharks.

Technology plays an important role in understanding sharks, helping us get up close and personal and allowing us to enter into the sharks world.

Extreme weather can kill and floods are the number one cause of death.

Special effects offer a look inside some of the most famous volcanoes.

High-speed cameras capture lightning in unprecedented detail.

The power of an avalanche is captured with specially placed cameras.

A journey is taken into the heart of the planet's most furious snowstorms.

Special effects display the awesome forces that make oceans dangerous.

Breathtaking aerials reveal the science behind amazing twisters.

The most hurricane-prone regions on Earth are visited.

The team is left in the dark about an approaching storm.

Sharks are inquisitive creatures and they bite to investigate things in the water. These Shark Week experts just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Getting really close to some of the most massive sharks in the world is part of the job description for our Shark Week experts. Unfortunately, these sharks can sometimes get a little too close!

As you can probably guess, filming Shark Week each year can be quite dangerous! These are some of the closest calls ever in the history of Shark Week.

Celebrate 30 years of Shark Week by counting down the most grueling, most ghastly, and most infamous sharks. Count down sharks 30-21, a tiny shark that lights up and an 18- foot pregnant female Shark living in the Guadalupe waters.

Celebrate 30 years of Shark Week by counting down the most grueling, most ghastly, & most infamous sharks. Count down sharks 20-11, a shark with reflective eyes that lives deep underwater and two brother sharks who always cause trouble in the waters.