About this season
Hosted by ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman, the award-winning Sea Rescue™ tells the stories of marine animal rescue, rehabilitation, and return to the wild by the dedicated men and women of the SeaWorld® Rescue Team and partner organizations. With rescue teams on call 24/7 and a legacy spanning more than five decades, SeaWorld has rescued over 26,000 whales, dolphins, sea lions, penguins, manatees, sea turtles and birds, with the ultimate goal of successfully rehabilitating and returning each one to the wild. Sea Rescue shares the teams’ incredible and heartwarming adventures through a combination of first-hand accounts, expert insights, and remarkable footage that will inspire, educate, and enthrall viewers!
Episodes (13)
1. Stranded
Aired 7 April 2012 • 30 min
In the series premiere, rehabilitated and returned to the wild, a pod of stranded whales get assistance and rescuers help a baby dolphin who's caught in a fishing line.
2. Dangerous Entanglements
Aired 14 April 2012 • 30 min
Rescuers must wade through alligator infested waters to save a stranded manatee, and a mother manatee suffers an extraordinary injury from an ordinary fishing line.
3. Whale of a Tale
Aired 21 April 2012 • 30 min
Join Sam and the Sea Rescue team in this episode as one of the most epic sea mammal rescue efforts in history is prompted by the stranding of a newborn gray whale.
4. Up a Drain Without a Paddle
Aired 28 April 2012 • 30 min
A complicated rescue attempt is made when two manatees get stuck in a storm drain. Also, a sea lion is on the run as it tries to evade the police.
5. The Ones That (Almost) Got Away
Aired 5 May 2012 • 30 min
A badly wounded sea lion resists a rescue attempt, and doctors discover several surprises in a stranded sea turtle’s x-ray.
6. Foster Families
Aired 12 May 2012 • 30 min
An orphaned baby manatee finds a strange surrogate mother, and two other baby manatees become unlikeliest of friends.
7. Special Delivery
Aired 19 May 2012 • 30 min
An orphaned pilot whale finds a new home a great distance from where he was first stranded.
8. Cold Cases
Aired 30 June 2012 • 30 min
Rescuers risk their lives in raging waters to assist three manatees, and a severe cold front threatens another endangered species.
9. Penguins in Peril
Aired 7 July 2012 • 30 min
When an oil spill off the coast of South Africa threatens half the world’s African Penguins, rescuers and volunteers come from all over in an extraordinary effort to save the species, making history as the largest animal rescue operation ever completed!
10. Strayed from the Sea
Aired 14 July 2012 • 30 min
A gray whale is found off the coast of California long after their migration is supposed to be over. After several attempts to lead the whale back out to sea, the team realizes something may be very wrong and has to work fast to figure out the problem.
11. Turtle Travels
Aired 21 July 2012 • 30 min
A rare and endangered sea turtle winds up 5,000 miles from home after being swept up by an ocean current, and two other Sea Turtles survive their own wild ride to the Pacific Northwest, landing a lucky ticket back from the U.S. Coast Guard!
12. Dolphins in Danger
Aired 28 July 2012 • 30 min
Rescuers attempt to save three dolphins on the brink of disaster: A fragile calf being strangled by razor-sharp fishing line; a displaced dolphin trapped in a freshwater lake 100 miles from the ocean; and a critically ill dolphin whose only chance of survival is a radical medical treatment used on humans!
13. Tight Squeeze
Aired 4 August 2012 • 30 min
When a manatee becomes trapped deep in a storm sewer, rescuers brave the spiders and sludge to save it in one of their most complex operations to date! Then, another animal winds up in a tight spot when a freezing manatee camps out in the precarious outflow of a coastal power plant!