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The SHARK WEEK Blimp is Coming to a City Near You

By: Discovery
From: Shark Week

It's a plane, it's a bird, it's a... Shark? Starting June 24, keep your eyes on the sky for... a flying shark! The first-ever SHARK WEEK Blimp will be flying along the East coast to get fans excited for the best thing about summer.

Track the SHARK WEEK Blimp's whereabouts here and share photos of your sightings on social using #SharkWeek.

And get ready, Shark Week starts on July 11 on Discovery and discovery+.

June 24, 2021

(Updated July 12, 2021)

Throughout the month of July, SHARK WEEK fans can look to the skies on the East Coast for the first-ever SHARK WEEK blimp. Soaring at 128-feet long and 44-feet high, this blimp travels at an average of 250 miles a day.

SHARK WEEK Blimp Photos

Breach for the Skies! Follow the Shark Week Blimp 6 Photos

Throughout the month of July, SHARK WEEK fans can look to the skies on the East Coast for the first-ever SHARK WEEK blimp. Follow the journey of the flying shark as it makes its way around the East Coast leading up and into SHARK WEEK!

The SHARK WEEK blimp will travel up and down the East Coast through July 20. Check back for updates on where and when to catch the flying shark as it makes its way around the East Coast leading up and into SHARK WEEK!

Here's the Schedule

THURSDAY, JUNE 24: Nashville, TN*

FRIDAY, JUNE 25: Nashville, TN to Atlanta, GA*

SATURDAY, JUNE 26: Anderson, SC to Spartanburg, SC to Charlotte, NC*

TUESDAY JUNE 29: Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Raleigh/Durham, NC*

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30: Outer Banks, NC Beaches (Wanchese, Manteo, Nagshead, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Duck, Corolla)*

THURSDAY JULY 1: Outer Banks, NC/Transit to towards VA Beaches*

SATURDAY JULY 3: Outer Banks, NC (Nagshead, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Duck, Corolla) TO VA Beaches (Sandbridge Beach, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk)*

SUNDAY JULY 4: Delaware Beaches*

MONDAY JULY 5: Southern Jersey Shore (Cape May, Wildwood, Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle, Ocean City, Atlantic City)*

WEDNESDAY JULY 7: Philadelphia (Center City, South Jersey, Trenton)*

FRIDAY JULY 9: New York City*

SATURDAY JULY 10: New York (Long Island, Hamptons)*

SUNDAY JULY 11: New Jersery (Jersey Shore and NJ Beaches)*

MONDAY JULY 12: Philadelphia*

TUESDAY, JULY 13: New York City*

*Flight path subject to change pending weather. Check back for daily updates.

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There’s a Lot You Don’t Know About Sharks

But in the meantime, here are some fin-tastic facts you probably didn’t know about sharks.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Do You Have the Guts to Be a Shark Handler?

Host Luke Tipple welcomes a pair of divers – Leigh Cobb and Josh Eccles – who have taken their passion for sharks and turned it into a dangerous career. They explore what it takes to swim with sharks for a living, then go into common myths and facts on what to do in the open water – if you ever come face to face with a shark. Plus, our researcher Sierra drops by with a new species of shark discovered in the freezing depths of the ocean.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Undiscovered Sharks and the State of the Ocean

Luke Tipple invites “The Lost Shark Guy,” Dr. Dave Ebert, who is personally responsible for finding dozens of shark species that were either previously unknown to science or thought to be extinct. He and Luke discuss why shark populations are a direct indicator of how healthy the ocean is, how to find undiscovered sharks, and why diversity in sharks is essential for marine life.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Did Alien Tech Crash-Land into the Ocean?

Host Luke Tipple is joined this week by renowned Harvard professor, Dr. Avi Loeb, who recently led a deep-sea expedition to discover if evidence for advanced alien life crash-landed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014. They discuss the recent Congressional UFO hearings, how the last seventy years of research into extraterrestrial life has been potentially misguided, and the challenges of searching for tiny objects on the bottom of the ocean.

Shark Week: The Podcast - What is the Status of Sharks in our Oceans?

In this season’s final episode, Luke welcomes Emmy-winning filmmaker and conservationist Shawn Heinrichs to discuss the state of sharks in the ocean. They go over how both legal and illegal fishing operations are decimating the ocean’s wildlife, what it’s like to have a hit put out on you for exposing criminal enterprises to the world, and whether or not NOAA’s data on “sustainable” fishing can really be trusted.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Superstar Kesha Lifts the Gag Order on Saving Sharks

Pop superstar Kesha joins Shark Week’s Luke Tipple on the podcast to discuss her love of sharks, how her music funds her addiction to diving, and how you can find inner peace while under the water. And at the end, our researcher Sierra drops in to tell us that some sharks have teeth in their eyes.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Shipwrecked & Surrounded by Sharks

This week, we do things a little differently, as Shark Week’s Luke Tipple invites Adventure Aaron into the podcast studio to talk about his incredible near-death experience on the open water. Adventure Aaron gets into what it takes to circumnavigate the world in an ocean rowboat, what it’s like to stare eye-to-eye with an oceanic white tip that probably wants you for lunch, and everything else that happened to him when his boat was capsized, and he was lost by himself at sea.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Smart Are Sharks?

The discussion turns this week to sharks’ intelligence, and how it varies among species. Host Luke Tipple is joined by Dr. Tristan Guttridge, a behavioral ecologist and veteran of Shark Week whose research has tackled the social smarts, and even personalities, of different kinds of sharks. He sheds light on why we shouldn’t just think of them as dumb fish with rows of razor-sharp teeth. And at the end, our researcher Sierra Kehoe tells us about shark hypnosis.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Shark Fishing Funds Human Trafficking

Luke Tipple is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina, who has dedicated his life to chronicling crime on the high seas. They discuss the state of our world’s oceans, how nearly 20% of your seafood was likely caught illegally, and the surprising link between modern slavery and the killing of sharks.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Do Scientists Need to Kill Sharks?

Host Luke Tipple welcomes two guests to discuss how researchers can kill sharks in the name of science – and whether they need to at all. The first is Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, shark researcher and founder of Atlantic Shark Expeditions, and an expert on data-gathering in the field. He’s followed by explorer Fred Buyle, a world-record-breaking freediver whose innovative methods of shark tagging are explored. Plus, our researcher Sierra tells us about how a 50-year study changed our understanding of tiger sharks – and much of the work wasn’t even done by scientists.

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