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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK FELLMAN
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James Cameron wants you to love the ocean like he does—and urgently seek to save it from, well, ourselves.
That’s why he was inspired by the waters and reefs of Polynesia in creating Avatar: The Way of Water, the sequel to the biggest-grossing movie of all time. It’s a plea, he says, for us to unplug, even briefly, and understand why the undersea world matters.
“The coral reefs will be a thing that exists only in films in 50 to 75 years, in most places around the planet,” the Nat Geo Explorer at Large (pictured above) tells us. “It’s kind of a cri de cœur … to remember, to celebrate and fall in love with again, and therefore remember to protect that which we’re losing.”
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