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26 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Sat, Oct 6, 201220 mins
Rescuers discover the shocking cause behind Valentine the sea lion's injuries. Then two sick humpback whales, Delta and Dawn, take a wrong turn and swim a 90 miles inland.

Episode 2
Sat, Oct 13, 201220 mins
A rare Bryde's whale is rescued from a beach but its size and poor health become major challenges for rescuers. Then hundreds of dolphins strand in thick mud. Rescuers rush to save them before they die.

Episode 3
Sat, Oct 20, 201220 mins
Researchers and rescuers recount the epic story of C6 the dolphin. He was attacked by four bull sharks and nearly died. During his rehabilitation, researchers learn about the brotherly bond he shared with another dolphin, C7.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 27, 201220 mins
After being stuck in a drainpipe next to Kennedy Space Center, it takes a little rocket to free Kilroy the manatee. And penguins traveling too far north into warm waters end up on tourist beaches in Brazil. It's time for a penguin rescue.
Episode 5
Sat, Nov 3, 201220 mins
Rescuers and researchers attempt to identify and rehabilitate a rare seal found injured on a beach in California. And a pelican caught in fishing line hangs upside down from a tree for 2 days before it's rescued.
Episode 6
Sat, Nov 10, 201220 mins
A flock of pelicans fly way off course and find themselves in the blazing desert and in big trouble. Then a humpback whale faces certain doom if a fishing net covering its head isn't removed in time.
Episode 7
Sat, Nov 17, 201220 mins
An orphaned baby sea otter grows into her new role as a surrogate mother to other rescued and orphaned sea otters. And an international effort gets underway to save little blue penguins from the most devastating oil spill in New Zealand's history.
Episode 8
Sat, Dec 1, 201220 mins
Iris, a stranded harbor seal pup, is found to have cataracts in both eyes and undergoes groundbreaking surgery to restore her sight. And rescuers race against time and a rising tide to free a humpback whale whose tail is anchored to the seabed.

Episode 9
Sat, Jan 12, 201320 mins
Sick and starving marine animals flood SeaWorld San Diego during one of the worst El Nino weather patterns in fifty years. Rescuers subsequently must solve the mystery behind a deadly illness as it spreads through the California sea lion population.

Episode 10
Sat, Jan 19, 201320 mins
When a bear destroys a beaver lodge, the only survivor is a baby beaver rescuers name Peanut. A SeaWorld expert becomes little Peanut's surrogate Mom and helps her adapt to a new life. Then two injured sea lions make headlines in San Francisco. One needs help escaping from Alcatraz Island, while the other dodges rescue attempts for weeks at Pier 39 and a harbor 90 miles South of San Francisco.

Episode 11
Sat, Jan 26, 201320 mins
A very rare Cuvier's Beaked Whale strands on a beach in Florida and SeaWorld Orlando's rescuers must figure out how to treat, feed and return it to the sea. In addition, a sea lion swallows a large hook. Rescuers perform a daring move to catch him and a life-saving operation to remove the hook.

Episode 12
Sat, Feb 2, 201320 mins
A deadly disease hits sea lions off the California Coast. SeaWorld San Diego's rescuers fight to save lives while researchers try to solve the mystery behind the poison that causes it. In addition, tiny rare harbor porpoises wash ashore ill and dying. The Vancouver Aquarium becomes the first facility to successfully come to their aid.
Episode 13
Sat, Feb 9, 201320 mins
Flamingos are threatened by a rampaging Jaguar during a critical period of hatching and breeding. Also: an attempt to save hundreds of abandoned flamingo hatchlings.
Episode 14
Sat, Feb 16, 201320 mins
A manatee wanders off course and into the brutal Massachusetts winter freeze. A massive effort to transport him back to Orlando inspires an 8th grader to make a difference. Then a dolphin is rescued after a vicious shark attack. He becomes an inspiration to wounded soldiers returning from war.
Episode 15
Sat, Feb 23, 201320 mins
A rescued manatee loses a flipper to fishing equipment but is later discovered to be pregnant. Then a leaking oil tanker, the Prestige, breaks up in a storm, creating a devastating oil spill. An international rescue effort is launched to save wildlife in some environmentally sensitive coastal areas of Spain and Portugal.
Episode 16
Sat, Apr 6, 201320 mins
The rescue of a Green sea turtle stranded on an Oregon Beach turns into an epic mission involving the public, SeaWorld, and the U.S. Navy. Then a pod of rarely seen Spotted Dolphins strands on a beach in Florida; and it takes teamwork and perseverance to rescue, rehabilitate, and return them to the Atlantic.

Episode 17
Sat, Apr 13, 201320 mins
A pioneering medical team develops an artificial tail to help a young dolphin that loses her tail fluke to a fishing gear entanglement. Winter the Dolphin becomes an inspiration for a young girl with a disability of her own and the star of a Hollywood movie.
Episode 18
Sat, Apr 20, 201320 mins
Two tiny turtle hatchlings wash ashore on Florida's Atlantic Coast. SeaWorld rescuers go above and beyond to save these endangered Hawksbill Turtles. Then disentanglement experts must respond not just once, but twice to save the life of Twister the Humpback whale, who makes a habit of getting stuck in fishing gear.
Episode 19
Thu, Apr 4, 201320 mins
A Loggerhead turtle turns up in a canal at a nuclear power station, and he needs life-saving surgery to remove a large fishhook. Then Apollo the dolphin suffers a terrible sunburn near New Orleans, and it takes months of TLC to make him better.
Episode 20
Sat, May 4, 201321 mins
When a pod of Pilot whales strands on Florida's Atlantic Coast, rescuers race to save as many of them as they can. Then they organize an epic nighttime mission to transport the survivors a hundred miles to SeaWorld, Orlando, where they receive long term care.
Episode 21
Sat, May 11, 201320 mins
A mystery illness spreads through thousands of pelicans when they stop off at a California lake on their migration route. Then a gigantic sea turtle strands on Cape Cod, and it's a race against time to return this rarely seen Leatherback to the ocean.
Episode 22
Sat, May 18, 201320 mins
An adult male sea lion brought into SeaWorld, San Diego, has appalling injuries to one side of his head after being blasted with a shotgun. Then a young dolphin is found battered and bruised in shallow water on a beach in Texas. Possibly attacked by wild dolphins, this young guy will need all the love and support rescuers can give him if he is to survive.

Episode 23
Sat, Jun 29, 201320 mins
When Superstorm Sandy batters the East Coast of the U.S., birds are blown thousands of miles off course, and animal shelters are so overwhelmed that rescuers go to extraordinary lengths to save the animals in the eye of the storm.

Episode 24
Sat, Jul 6, 201320 mins
Little Joe, the tiniest manatee ever rescued by SeaWorld, makes a habit of getting lost, but fortunately rescuers are there for him each time. Then, when a massive hurricane hits Louisiana, a hapless dolphin is carried two miles inland by a storm surge, and rescuers need every ounce of ingenuity to save him.

Episode 25
Sat, Jul 13, 201320 mins
A young, helpless dolphin washes up near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and saving him will take some creative thinking and even the generous offer of a private jet! And then, an abandoned baby manatee swims among the boats in a marina, making it difficult for rescuers to reach him.
Episode 26
Sat, Sep 28, 201320 mins
Two vulnerable baby walruses are rescued in Barrow, Alaska, and it's just the beginning of an extraordinary journey from jeopardy to safety. And then, a dolphin becomes stranded far inland, and rescuers discover there's nothing simple about saving this off-course swimmer.