In 2000, producer Jeff Kurr traveled to South Africa hoping to be the first to capture the incredible hunting techniques of the great white sharks that inhabit the coast. To feed on seals, the sharks have the self-taught ability to breach the water's surface. Going airborne, the 2000-pound hunters grab their prey while lifting their bodies entirely out of the water, an amazing feat never seen on television before Shark Week's Air Jaws captured the phenomenon ten years ago.
Working on Discovery's Shark Week for 20 years, Kurr traveled to South Africa once again to capture these jumping sharks along with shark expert Chris Fallows for Ultimate Air Jaws, this time, armed with new HD technology. The team used the Phantom camera, a high speed camera shooting at 2,000 frames per second, to capture every detail of a shark's jump from the water.
