James Cameron teams with Nat Geo on Mission OceanX, a "character-driven" ocean exploration series

Variety

The Titanic and The Abyss director's new unscripted series will follow the maiden voyage of the Alucia2, a next-generation exploration ship belonging to underwater exploration organization OceanX. But Cameron wants Mission OceanX to take a different approach to ocean exploration television. “We want it to be character-driven,” he tells Variety. “One of the things I have pushed everybody towards, maybe even a little bit to the extent (that) they are outside of their comfort zones, was to make it kind of reality TV, meaning I want to follow these people. I want to know how they think; I want to understand their passion as explorers and as ocean scientists…that burning curiosity.”