Join renowned ocean explorer Bob Ballard, GSO Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, and a team of scientists on a daring deep-sea expedition to explore the hidden geologic dangers of the Caribbean, and the bizarre life that inhabits these extreme ocean depths. The National Geographic World Premier of “Caribbean’s Deadly Underworld” will air on the National Geographic WILD channel at 10 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, May 18.

The hour-long program also features GSO Professor of Oceanography Steven Carey, Inner Space Center Director Dwight Coleman, and Katy Croff Bell, GSO alumna and Vice President and Chief Scientist of the Ocean Exploration Trust. Others from URI involved in the expedition are GSO and Ocean Engineering faculty member Chris Roman; GSO graduate students Brennan Phillips and Sara Fuller; GSO alumni Mike Brennan, Rich Bell, Kat Cantner, and Alicia Caporaso; GSO former postdoctoral fellow Nicole Raineault; Ocean Engineering faculty member Stephen Licht; Ocean Engineering graduate students Clara Smart, Ian Vaughn, Will Snyder, and Alex Kavanaugh; Ocean Engineering alumni Mike Filimon and Eric Martin; and URI Biological Sciences faculty member Brad Seibel.

Click here for a short preview clip for “Caribbean’s Deadly Underworld.”