From this Warner Bros press release:
Dancing With Sharks (wt)
Hosted by Emmy® Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron, Dancing With Sharks (wt) is a new Shark Week 2025 special that features an unprecedented underwater dance competition between expert divers and their shark partners. Blending skill, grace and the daring pursuit of the ultimate underwater thrill, five divers—all trained by a world-class underwater choreographer—will compete to show off their skills during epic underwater dances. Each diver will attempt to outperform their competitors, with moves including the Hammerhead Hoedown and Tiger Trot, and redefine dancing with danger. They will have one shot to wow the judges and be crowned the first-ever champion of Dancing With Sharks (wt).
My instinct is that of course this is overstated, and there will just be like, sharks in a cage nearby or something. That's probably correct. But the press release seems weirdly concrete: "dance competition between expert divers and their shark partners". Could this possibly be true in any sense?
Resolves YES if there are dancing sharks.
For this to resolve YES, it isn't sufficient just for there to be live sharks NEARBY. They need to be incorporated into the dance routine in some sense. But my standards for that will be extremely broad—if the sharks are kinda oblivious but the humans are dancing to incorporate their movements that would probably count. If the sharks are moving with basically any coordination with the human, or with any level of direction from them, it will almost certainly resolve YES.
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Watched it. Easy YES, not even close. Example routine:
If you're being very picky, they lure sharks in with bait in the middle of their dance routine. But by the criteria, this is obviously YES. The shark movements are being incorporated into the dance routine. Bravo to Discovery, my apologies for doubting you.
There are types of sharks that are fairly docile, and you could totally do something wth them that rises to these broad criteria.
Just googling around briefly, I found a video (and accompanying reddit discussion) of a diver in an aquarium almost literally waltzing with a shark (https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/e4r8ci/this_man_dances_with_a_mfing_shark/).
There is also a video of a bunch of scuba divers hanging out with sharks in the wild and "dancing" with them more in the sense of "the sharks are kinda oblivious" but the humans are moving around and actively interacting wth them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2neYLcgbnlQ). I'm pretty sure "swimming with sharks" is a type of activity you can do as a tourist in some areas of the world.
So I think for a shark week TV show, they'll definitely have to do something better than "sharks in a cage nearby or something".
@yanamal thank you for this investigation!! Exactly why I made this market
I just find it bizarre that a month before, there’s no other info or promo about this event! Which makes me suspicious that it’s underwhelming. But network TV is strange