NatGeo’s Sunday night show “OceanXplorers” is a collaboration with James Cameron and the BBC to explore the oceans, “the final frontier.”

Aldo Kane, a former Royal Marines Commando sniper, is part of the media team on board Ocean X, one of the most technologically advanced ships in the world.

“It’s a huge collaboration on board the ship, which was purpose-built as a nonprofit organization for global science, media and exploration,” Kane, 46, said in a Zoom interview with his strong Scottish accent. “It’s really a coming together of many minds.”

“I joined the Marines – the British elite force – at the age of 16 and spent 10 years there. During this time I became a specialist in operations at sea, in the jungle, in the desert and in the Arctic.

“I specialized in technical things – like technical diving, technical climbing, mountaineering. Adventure was basically the root of all of that. The reason I enlisted was to have that adventure, to get out, to see the world. I never enlisted to go to war or do anything like that.

“The skills I brought from the military to this expedition are leadership in logistics and people management. They have multi-million pound assets doing incredible scientific work. That’s what a lot of the military skills I brought with me have enabled us to do.”

His destiny at “OceanXplorers” began in LA with himself.

“When I first went to my interview with James Cameron and his team, the focus was ‘The oceans are in a terrible state. Over 80 percent of them are unexplored. Most of them show signs of human pollution.’

“James Cameron’s great passion is, of course, the ocean and its protection. And they wanted this to be an odyssey of exploration of the Atlantic. To show everything from the surface down to the seabed. And to show how little we actually know about the ocean.

“But a big push is to get people interested in the oceans, interested in protecting them and making them understand that all oceans are connected.

“And to recognize that the ocean is an integral part of the Earth, our environment and our living system.”

Kane reminds us of a crucial fact: “Most of the oxygen we breathe on this Earth comes from phytoplankton on the ocean surface.

“If that happens, then we have big problems.”

So Kane jumped on board, essentially as “a call to arms, to adventure, to discovery. But it’s all backed up by cutting-edge science.”

“OceanXplorers” will be streamed on NatGeo on Sunday