Sea Rescue Season 2, Episode 6: Lost, But Not Forgotten

1

Dangerous Passages

Rescuers discover the shocking cause behind Valentine the sea lion’s injuries, and then two sick humpback whales, Delta and Dawn, take a wrong turn and swim 90 miles inland!

30 min

2

Stuck in the Muck

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 are stranded in thick mud, and rescuers must rush to save them!

30 min

3

True Bromance

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.

30 min

4

Of Pipes and Penguins

After being stuck in a drainpipe next to Kennedy Space Center, it takes a little rocket to free Kilroy the manatee. Also, penguins traveling too far north into warm waters end up on tourist beaches in Brazil. It’s time for a penguin rescue!

30 min

5

Hanging by a Thread

Rescuers and researchers attempt to identify and rehabilitate a rare seal found injured on a beach in California!

30 min

6

Lost, But Not Forgotten

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!

30 min

7

Weaned and Cleaned

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!

30 min

8

Seeing is Believing

Iris, a stranded harbor seal pup, is found to have cataracts in both eyes and undergoes groundbreaking surgery to restore her sight. Rescuers must also race against time and a rising tide to free a humpback whale whose tail is anchored to the seabed!

30 min

9

When It Rains, It Pours

Sick and starving marine animals flood SeaWorld San Diego during one of the worst El Nino weather patterns in 50 years! Then, rescuers have to solve the mystery behind a deadly illness as it spreads through the California sea lion population!

30 min

10

Great Escapes

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!

30 min

11

Deep Down

A very rare Cuvier’s Beaked Whale strands, and SeaWorld rescuers must figure out how to treat, feed and return it to the sea! Then a sea lion swallows a large hook, and rescuers execute a daring move to catch him and perform a life-saving operation to remove the hook!

30 min

12

Poisons & Porpoises

A deadly disease hits sea lions off the California coast. SeaWorld rescuers fight to save lives while researchers try to solve the mystery behind the poison that causes it! Then tiny rare harbor porpoises wash ashore sick and dying. The Vancouver Aquarium becomes the first facility to successfully save them!

30 min

13

Red Alert

When a jaguar rampages through a colony of flamingos during a sensitive hatching & breeding season, SeaWorld experts race to save hundreds of abandoned flamingo hatchlings that are notoriously difficult to hand rear!

30 min

14

Inspiring Journeys

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 and becomes an inspiration to wounded soldiers returning from war!

30 min

15

Best of Times, Worst of Times

A rescued manatee loses a flipper to fishing equipment and 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!

30 min

16

Missions of Mercy

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.

30 min

17

Winter's Tale

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.

30 min

18

Take Two

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.

30 min

19

A Ray of Hope

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!

30 min

20

The Lost Pilots

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!

30 min

21

Not a Second to Lose

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!

30 min

22

Someone to Watch Over Them

An adult male sea lion brought into SeaWorld, San Diego, has appalling injuries to one side of his head after being injured by 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!

30 min

23

Superstorm Superheroes

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.

30 min

24

Landlocked and Lost

Little Joe, the tiniest manatee ever rescued by SeaWorld, makes a habit of getting lost, but fortunately rescuers are there for him each time. While recuperating, he even receives a visit from none other than the President of the United States! 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!

30 min

25

The Young and the Helpless

A young, helpless dolphin washes up near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and saving him will take some creative thinking… 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.

30 min

26

By the Skin of Their Teeth

Two vulnerable baby walruses are rescued in Barrow, Alaska, and it’s just the beginning of an extraordinary journey from jeopardy to safety. Then, a dolphin becomes stranded far inland, and rescuers discover there’s nothing simple about saving this off-course swimmer!

30 min