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The International Marine Mammal Project recently released a new video proving how ridiculous SeaWorld’s advertising and claims really are. These claims include that the orcas are healthy, that they are happy, and that keeping them in captivity is the best option for their well-being. According to data collected over the years along with the death of numerous cetaceans, nothing could be further from the truth.
Keiko, the star of the Free Willy movies, was the first orca to be released back into the wild into a protected seaside sanctuary. Keiko lived another seven years, living to the be one of the oldest male orcas in captivity at the time of his release. For SeaWorld to call Keiko’s release into the sanctuary, where he could actually swim for more than a few hundred feet and swim with other orcas, a failure – well, it’s pretty obvious they are getting desperate to save themselves.
The numbers don’t lie –since Keiko’s rehabilitation and retirement, a whopping 77 cetaceans have died at SeaWorld, eight of whom were orcas. Additionally, 325 cetaceans have died in captivity all over the world just during that time period from 1996 to 2003.
SeaWorld has never retired any of their dolphins or whales and the only reason they can give is that it would be irresponsible and potentially fatal to return a captive cetacean to the ocean. The truth is that they would rather work these poor animals until they can’t make any more money off of them.
The good news is that people are becoming more and more aware of SeaWorld’s lies and fake advertising. Thanks to documentaries like Blackfish and The Cove, it’s easy to see that being torn away from family, living in a concrete tank, and being forced to perform silly and trivial tricks is cruel and certainly no life for any marine animal. Some SeaWorld visitors are even suing SeaWorld for misleading and false claims.
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EMPTY THE TANKS NOW SEA WORLD.
He\’s right captive Orca\’s and Dolphins population has been going down RELEASE THEM NOW!
Well… Black fish was really about 1 poor abused whale that suffered in the hands of his owners before Sea World rescued him from the abuse. He was already damaged by the time Sea World got to him.. and sadly they did not release this information to his trainers.
As for Sea Worlds point… I agree wit them. It IS and will be dangerous to release whales and dolphins who were born and raised in captivity into the wild. They were not raised out in the dangerous and polluted Ocean… they only know the way of life inside Sea World…….. letting them out into the wild is murder. Sea World also rehabilitates sea life that WE humans are the cause of polluting their Ocean home……….
your brainwashed.
While I do not agree with all of Sea World\’s policies, and they do need to be held accountable, as a PhD in Marine Biology, I find it interesting that videos and marketing like this NEVER point out that Sea World is the reason we know >75% of the things we do about orcas and their societies.
Sea World is responsible for a lot of scientific research on the marine organisms the have.