This Sunday on GMA News TV, National Geographic Channel's Freaks of the Sea takes us deep into the oceans of our planet, where creatures weirder than our wildest dreams or our scariest nightmares lurk.
Multi award-winning underwater cameramen John Boyle and renowned Red Sea specialist John McIntyre have collaborated to produce this wide ranging blue-chip television special, filmed over several years, portraying some of the strangest underwater creatures from every corner of the planet.
Among the creatures featured is one of the world's longest animals, a strange snake-like jellyfish, which can grow to well over 40 meters and has deadly stinging cells all along its body. We're going to see cannibalistic squid, shark that can only walk on the seabed and the supremely ugly frogfish, which strikes quicker than almost any other fish in the sea.
In a literally shocking sequence, the film shows rare footage of the sinister and deadly numb ray, which creates its own electricity to zap unsuspecting prey with a deadly voltage. Other creatures give off electrical charges to provide an extraordinary display of colour as an elaborate warning to predators. The film goes on to portray a sea freak that relentlessly scours the sea floor, with an expanding head to use as a net to ruthlessly snare its prey. From the ocean deeps, we see rare footage of the murderous crab that decapitates its victims before devouring them and a never-before-filmed life and death struggle between the terrifying monkfish and an unsuspecting cod.
Freaks of the Sea provides viewers with a comprehensive look at the sea's most incredible creations, and will shock, amuse and terrify in equal measure. Narrated in Filipino, it airs this Sunday, May 5, at 10PM on GMA News TV Channel 11.