Mitch and Stephanie board a yacht disguised as wealthy southern honeymooners to capture a group of modern-day pirates and find themselves oddly attracted to each other's undercover character.
The mysterious death of Mitch's uncle, and the cryptic will he left, finds Mitch, Hobie, Eddie, and Shauni on a whitewater rafting adventure. Meanwhile, rookie lifeguard hopefuls participate in the annual qualifying swim.
Shauni and Eddie visit a local fortune teller who predicts that Eddie will soon meet his first true love. Shauni thought he already had, and that it was her! But it's Lorna, an older woman Eddie had a "Summer of '42" affair with as a teenager.
Harvey and Mitch go to play poker on an offshore yacht where they are robbed by a masked man that drives an amphibious Jeep. Shauni invites Eddie over for dinner at her parents' house where her snobbish father strongly disapproves of him.
Mitch helps a former lifeguard, Lane Brody, investigate a corporation suspected of dumping deadly chemicals in the bay.
A bohemian poet flirts with Shauni, and with danger, when he uses his metal detector to find the buried stash of two jewel thieves.
Shauni is suspicious when a swimmer training for the Olympics disappears in "Shark's Cove.” Eddie's world is turned upside-down when he is reunited with his schizophrenic half-brother.
Mitch has an out-of-body experience when his attempt to save a trapped diver without scuba gear leaves him with the bends, dangerously close to death and in desperate need of a decompression chamber.
A drugged-out drifter torches Eddie's lifeguard tower which leads the team to discover an illegal, lab distributing a new drug. Mitch and Thorpe try to convince the city board to buy wave runners in order to optimize their ability to save lives.
Reports of a coming storm and enormous waves bring painful memories for Mitch. Meanwhile, Kaye tries to persuade the parents of a deaf girl to send her to sign-language school.
After helping break up a gang fight on the beach, Eddie gets the idea of having some gang members join the lifeguard W.A.T.E.R. program designed to help troubled youths.
Mitch receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited brother, whose troubled son entices Hobie to surf the pylons of a treacherous condemned pier. Meanwhile, a local vendor nearly causes a riot when his bikinis disintegrate in the water.
After Mitch makes a heroic ocean rescue while working at her private beach party, a Hollywood producer offers Mitch the starring role in a movie. Meanwhile, Harvey and Shauni hold a wild bikini contest to raise money for an aquatic rescue group.
After Baywatch lifeguard Megan is attacked on the beach, she struggles to regain her confidence – unaware that her attacker, a fisherman, views her as the "One That Got Away." Meanwhile, Shauni suffers from lifeguard burnout.
When a fishing trawler mysteriously sinks, the “Creature in the Bay” is thought responsible! Mitch, Devon and Captain Thorpe set out to prove there is more than meets the eye behind this Creature's mysterious attacks.
'Nightmare Bay, Part 1'' - Mitch rescues an underwater photographer that appears to have been attacked by a Sea Creature in an underwater cave, resulting in a media frenzy. Shauni rescues a young girl in the ocean then has to rescue her family from drowning.
A massive earthquake destroys Baywatch headquarters and leaves Gina's life hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, Cort and Craig are trapped in the ocean. And Eddie is the only one left who can help a pregnant woman going into labor.
Craig, Mitch and Garner go for a weekend hang-gliding trip, but Mitch has a serious accident, and ends up facing death before the fangs of a rattlesnake! Cort reacquaints himself with a woman who has a shocking secret.
Cort promises to come up with $10,000 for a nursing home, but he needs Mitch and Craig's help to compete in a water-skiing race with a big cash prize. Shauni's traumatic fear of the ocean after Jill's death threatens her future with Baywatch.
Jill teams up with Trevor to win a beach volleyball tournament, but all she really wants is to beat her former lover's team. Eddie and Shauni team up to rescue a young girl trapped in an armored car that topples off the pier into the ocean.