Shark Week Est 1988 T-Shirt

This Est 1988 design comes from Shark Week, the Discovery Channel event that has turned shark documentaries into an annual summer institution since 1988. The visual language is unmistakable — the chomped-out bite mark, the open jaws, the ocean blues — and it works on a shirt precisely because everyone recognises it without needing the show explained. Shark Week began on the Discovery Channel in July 1988 and has run every year since, which makes it the longest-running cable television event in history. It started as a block of shark documentaries and became something closer to a national summer holiday.

Hosts have ranged from working marine biologists to comedians, and the tone shifts between the two freely. It was created in part as a corrective: after Jaws, sharks were widely regarded as monsters, and the programming was meant to put actual marine science in front of a mass audience. This one is printed on a charcoal unisex t-shirt in sizes S through 5XL. Officially licensed and printed on heavyweight cotton.

Features:

• Charcoal Unisex T-Shirt
• 100% cotton
• Front print
• Officially Licensed

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