Sam Champion
Sea Rescue (2012)
Season 2
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!
Released April 7, 2012
Episode 30 min
8+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Documentary
Keywords: imdb.arizona-desert, imdb.arizona-territory, tmdb.nature, tmdb.animals, imdb.arizona, imdb.desert, imdb.veterinarian + 2 more, imdb.sea-creature, imdb.two-word-title
Watch Providers: Philo
Production Companies: Litton Entertainment
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - 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!
Oct. 6, 2012, midnight
S2E2 - 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!
Oct. 13, 2012, midnight
S2E3 - 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.
Oct. 20, 2012, midnight
S2E4 - 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!
Oct. 27, 2012, midnight
S2E5 - Hanging by a Thread
Rescuers and researchers attempt to identify and rehabilitate a rare seal found injured on a beach in California!
Nov. 3, 2012, midnight
S2E6 - 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!
Nov. 10, 2012, midnight
S2E7 - 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!
Nov. 17, 2012, midnight
S2E8 - 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!
Dec. 1, 2012, midnight
S2E9 - 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!
Jan. 12, 2013, midnight
S2E10 - 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!
Jan. 19, 2013, midnight
S2E11 - 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!
Jan. 26, 2013, midnight
S2E12 - 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!
Feb. 2, 2013, midnight
S2E13 - 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!
Feb. 9, 2013, midnight
S2E14 - 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!
Feb. 16, 2013, midnight
S2E15 - 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!
Feb. 23, 2013, midnight
S2E16 - 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.
April 6, 2013, midnight
S2E17 - 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.
April 13, 2013, midnight
S2E18 - 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.
April 20, 2013, midnight
S2E19 - 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!
April 27, 2013, midnight
S2E20 - 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!
May 4, 2013, midnight
S2E21 - 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!
May 11, 2013, midnight
S2E22 - 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!
May 18, 2013, midnight
S2E23 - 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.
June 29, 2013, midnight
S2E24 - 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!
July 6, 2013, midnight
S2E25 - 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.
July 13, 2013, midnight
S2E26 - 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!
July 20, 2013, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 5070 min.
Released: April 7, 2012
Last Air Date: June 2, 2018, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G
Common sense age: 8+
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