Sea Rescue

Rescuers race to assist a stranded pod of pilot whales, and a baby dolphin struggles trapped in fishing line.

Rescuers wade through alligator infested waters to save a manatee, and a mother manatee suffers an extraordinary injury from ordinary fishing line.

One of the most epic sea mammal rescue efforts in history is prompted by the stranding of a newborn gray whale.

A complicated rescue attempt is made when two manatees get stuck in a storm drain, and a sea lion evades the police.

A badly wounded sea lion resists rescue, and doctors find several surprises in a stranded sea turtle's x-ray.

An orphaned baby manatee finds a strange surrogate mother and two other baby manatees become unlikely friends.

An orphaned pilot whale finds a new home a great distance from where he first stranded.

Rescuers risk their lives in raging waters to assist three manatees, and a severe cold front threatens another endangered species.

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.

A young Gray Whale wanders into a shallow harbor entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line, leaving rescuers with the dangerous task of cutting the whale loose from a boat just inches above. Then, after a dolphin becomes trapped in a freshwater inlet, rescuers race to get it back to saltwater before time runs out.

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.

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.

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.