{"id":257807,"date":"2024-08-30T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/oceanxplorers-review-james-camerons-new-ocean-life-series-is-try-hard-but-effective\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:39","slug":"oceanxplorers-review-james-camerons-new-ocean-life-series-is-try-hard-but-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/oceanxplorers-review-james-camerons-new-ocean-life-series-is-try-hard-but-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"OceanXplorers review: James Cameron&#8217;s new ocean-life series is try-hard but effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"National Geographic handout TV still: OCEANXPLORERS. Eric Ste-Marie, Cameraman Jamie Holland, Aldo Kane, Melissa Marquez, Nigel Hussey, and Crew Josh Palmer work to tag a Greenland Shark off the side of the FRC. (National Geographic\/Mario Tadinac)\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122613\/SEI_218122097.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2445144\" data-caption=\"The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland\u00a0shark\" data-credit=\"Mario Tadinac\/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland\u00a0shark<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Mario Tadinac\/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/en-gb\/series\/oceanxplorers\/6MyiXlOyGkuyhere!\">OceanXplorers<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>National Geographic<\/strong><br \/>Disney+<\/p>\n<p>With the prominent X in the middle of its title, <i>OceanXplorers<\/i> sounds like something from the 1990s trend of making \u201cextreme\u201d versions of familiar things to draw in younger people.<\/p>\n<p>Host and executive producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21620-james-cameron-set-for-a-mariana-trench-sequel\/\">James Cameron<\/a> adds to that feel as he opens each episode of the documentary series by touting the \u201ckick-ass team of insanely talented specialists\u201d who work on \u201cthe most technologically advanced research vessel ever built\u201d \u2013 like they are the stars of a <i>Mission: Impossible<\/i> movie. Of the four\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335060-500-james-camerons-new-ocean-life-series-is-try-hard-but-effective\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland\u00a0shark Mario Tadinac\/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OceanXplorersNational GeographicDisney+ With the prominent X in the middle of its title,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}