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A promotional image of a shark for the National Geographic Live show \u201cJess Cramp: The Untold Story of Sharks.\u201d It is premiering in Calgary from March 8-9, 2026. (Courtesy Werklund Centre)<\/p>\nFans of Shark Week take note \u2014 the experts are coming to Calgary.<\/p>\n
Marine biologist and shark expert Jess Cramp brings her ocean adventures to Jack Singer Concert Hall as part of the Werklund Centre\u2019s National Geographic Live series.<\/p>\n
Speaking with 660 NewsRadio\u2019s Behind the Curtain, Cramp says the experience will be anything but a dry lecture.<\/p>\n
\u201cNational Geographic and I have worked really hard to make it very entertainment-forward, while we trick you into learning about sharks and fisheries,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Audiences can expect stories, behind-the-scenes videos and the kind of visuals only National Geographic can deliver.<\/p>\n
Cramp spends much of her year in the South Pacific tagging sharks and tracking their movements. \u201cThe tags actually stay on the animal collecting data for up to a year, and then they pop off,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n
Those tags send their data to a satellite, then she and her team recreate the shark\u2019s journey. But she says tagging the sharks is the ultimate catch-and-release rush.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a very wiggly shark, you turn it upside down, it goes into a state called tonic immobility,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then we flip it back over so that it\u2019s dorsal fin side up, we pop the tag in, we measure the shark, we remove the hook, and then we release it, and it swims off.\u201d<\/p>\n
A promotional image of a shark for the National Geographic Live show \u201cJess Cramp: The Untold Story of Sharks.\u201d It is premiering in Calgary from March 8-9, 2026. (Courtesy Werklund Centre)<\/p>\n
Sharks also have quirks that most people never imagine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a silky shark that was swimming around,\u201d she says. \u201cSurrounding the silky shark was a school of fish. These fish kept bouncing off of the silky shark to try to use its skin, which is very sandpaper-like, to use its skin to scrape off parasites.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see that this shark was so annoyed. I just thought this is the cutest thing I\u2019ve seen from a shark.\u201d<\/p>\n
The show also digs into the history of shark research, including the legacy of Dr. Eugenie Clark \u2014 an inspiration to Cramp.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was given the nickname the \u2018Shark Lady,\u2019 and in my mind, there will never be another,\u201d she says. \u201cShe was an incredibly competent, talented scientist, but she was also incredible at science communication.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jess Cramp: The Untold Story of Sharks runs March 8 and 9 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall at the Werklund Centre.<\/p>\n
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