Presented by National Geographic Society in partnership with @Rolex. Our oceans don't exist in isolation. Now, National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Explorers are undertaking groundbreaking expeditions to reimagine them as a single entity.
Nov 7, 2026 · 5:16 PM UTC
Rolex and The National Geographic Society are partnering on select science-based expeditions to explore, study, and document change in the planet’s unique regions. #PerpetualPlanet.
Narrated by Auliʻi Cravalho, #ExpeditionSavingOurSeas premieres November 13 at 9/8c on @NatGeoTV. Streaming next day on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.
Seeing the ocean as one connected system changes how you think about protecting it. That aerial view alone is worth watching
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The ocean already runs on a single schedule, we just file it under five names. One molecule of surface water takes roughly a thousand years to ride the great conveyor from the Atlantic, around Africa, through the Indian Ocean and into the Pacific, and then back again. The 2011 Japanese tsunami scattered its debris along the same circuit in under four years, and grey whales have treated the whole basin as one address for millennia. Naming the seas was a cartographers' convenience. The water never signed the paperwork.
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