The Aquarium

The Georgia Aquarium sends a team to Cape Town, South Africa, to help rehabilitate and release African penguins into the wild. A dive team installs a shipwreck feature into the Ocean Voyager exhibit to provide enrichment for their sea turtle.

Two African penguins, Freya and Neo, welcome a young chick, but then health problems arise. Staff work to train a trio of harbor seals to ride the elevator, with the only hiccup being a nervous seal named Floyd.

A beluga whale trains with staff to go on the "whale scale." Blacktip reef shark L2 is not eating normally, and staff work to figure out why. Scarlett is the first sea lion born at the aquarium, and sea jellies go on exhibit.

Beloved otter Pinkie has a recurring bloody nose, and the team goes to great lengths to find out what could be causing it. Feisty baby American alligators arrive at the aquarium and must learn to eat in an orderly way.

Trainers prepare sea lions for eye surgery. The team travels to the Bahamas to collect blood samples from sharks for a study on the effects of plastics in the ocean. Staff devise new enrichments for intelligent octopus Ophelia.

A staff member heads to the Marine Mammal Center in California to help in rehabilitation efforts of elephant seals. African penguins Charlie and Lizzie have been together for 25 years, and Charlie is having issues with his eyes.

A sea otter is rushed to the health center. The team travels to Key Largo to help coral restoration efforts. Young penguins prepare for an upcoming event. Love is in the air for a trainer and his favorite sea lion pup, Scarlett.

The team welcomes two rescued southern sea otter pups from the California coast. Young ruddy ducks are introduced to their new habitat at the aquarium. Nandi, the aquarium's smallest manta ray, is due for her annual checkup.

Polka, a bottlenose dolphin, has a raspy voice and needs to see the doctor to get the all-clear. Staff excitedly prepare for the upcoming puffin breeding season. Two wobbegong sharks are due for a checkup. A curious and active box turtle goes for a walk.