Nissan has stepped back into the water with Discovery as the lead sponsor of Shark Week in Canada.

Last year the car co and its agencies, OMD and TBWA hit a viral goldmine with a video that showed a shark on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ont. It was a stunt, but news media picked up on it immediately, causing a short burst of panic/intrigue before the stunt was revealed.

This year, the company took the branded content route, sponsoring In Search of Canada’s Rogue Shark: Expedition to promote its Nissan Rogue (get it?). The five-episode series of digital shorts – following GEERG (Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group) founder Jefferey Gallant on his expedition to find the sharks in Baie-Comeau, Québec – will run on Discovery.ca, as well as interstitials on Discovery during Shark Week, from July 5 to 12.

The five episodes will be combined to run as one half-hour original special that airs on Saturday Aug. 1 at 6:30 p.m. on Discovery.

In addition, Nissan has partnered with Discovery on a contest to send a pair of Canadians on a tagging expedition to the Bay of Fundy. The winner will be chosen through a Twitter contest with Discovery and Nissan.

Last year Shark Week averaged 196,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 demo over 14 hours of programming, and was the second most-watched edition of the themed week on Discovery since it launched in 1995. The week of programming also ranked as the most-watched primetime programming over a six-day period on Discovery in 2014 for both 2+ and adults 25 to 54.

This year’s Shark Week will feature 45 hours of programming. In addition to the series with Nissan, original content during the week includes themed episodes of Discovery’s Daily Planet for the second straight year.