Friday 24 August, 9pm

Mike Rowe tackles dirty jobs with the men and women who work with sharks. Mike travels to an unlikely place - the desert of Las Vegas - to Mandalay Bay’s two-million gallon aquarium, home to some 15 different species of shark. Here, Mike gets dirty with marine biologists as they prepare a nutritious assortment of frozen fish for the sharks’ lunch, and climbs into the aquarium’s filter system to make sure it’s operating properly — finding himself navigating between hundreds of pounds of sand and a mess of shark excrement.

Next, he rolls up his sleeves to dissect a nine-foot tiger shark that was found dead off the coast of South Africa. These dissections are done to help humans understand shark behaviour, evolution, health and current environmental factors that may affect the shark population.

Finally, Mike heads to the Bahamas with Jeremiah Sullivan, the inventor of the Neptunic shark suit — a chain mail armour to protect divers from shark attacks. Mike suits up and dives 30 feet underwater to test the suit, meeting several Caribbean reef sharks.