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Georgia Aquarium providing footage for "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel

By Melissa Ruggieri
July 14, 2011

The Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” will get an assist from Georgia Aquarium with the Shark Cam, a high-definition underwater camera stationed inside the aquarium’s shark-filled Ocean Voyager habitat.

“Shark Week” airs July 31-Aug. 6 with live footage streaming from Ocean Voyager; the aquarium will also provide streaming and video content for www.discovery.com/sharkweek.

Live online chat sessions with Discovery Channel shark experts and Georgia Aquarium biologists are slated for 11 p.m. Aug. 1-2 and4 and 10 p.m. Aug. 3.

Shark fans interested in social media can connect on the “Shark Week” Facebook page and on Twitter by following @SharkWeek.

For more information, visit www.georgiaaquarium.org/sharkweek.aspx.

About the Author

Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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