oy, aggrevating level! Especially when you consider that a lot of little kids were playing this game at the time and you go and throw that at them early on in the game. I, myself, walked away from that game for years because of it, only to play later and get through it. What sucked was losing at least 2 turtles there and then only being able to recover 1 of them on the 3rd level. The 3rd level, of course, was the biggest level of the game and you had to go to the most obscure of locations to recover just 1 of your turtles.
If you get around to playing it, Eric, I recommend using Mike and Raph on the water level.