Blackworld: A Documentary: The Story Of The Blackfish

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“You hear her just scream out, ‘somebody help me!’ It was such a bloodcurdling scream. She knew she was going to die,” commented John Hargrove, a former SeaWorld trainer. There has been 21 attacks on humans by killer whales in the last 10 years. SeaWorld was associated with 12 of them. In 2013 SeaWorld was worth $2.5 billion, they would do anything to protect their business. They target adults and teenagers; or anyone who can pay. The purpose of the Blackfish documentary was made to inform people how wrong it is what SeaWorld is doing. Animals in captivity do not live as long and depending on the animal there is more complications. Seaworld is an unacceptable place to live, for orcas and any other animal. They do not have animals’ best interests in mind. Jane Velez-MItchell says, “If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you would get a little irritated, maybe a little psychotic?” Orcas are usually about 23 to 32 ft long, at night they are stored in a 20x30 foot steel box. The pools are the size of a bathtub for a killer whale. The captive Orcas are constantly in small spaces. Orcas are so beautiful, the viewer can see why people would want to go to SeaWorld. However, supporting SeaWorld means you support what is happening to the Orcas there. Statistics and stocks …show more content…

Every adult male at SeaWorld has a collapsed dorsal fin. Obviously, that is unhealthy. Dorsal fins help stabilize the animal. Orcas are supposed to swim up to 100 miles a day, and it’s not very likely they could do that at SeaWorld in a pool that’s like a bathtub. This is a cause of collapsed dorsal fin. SeaWorld lies about the collapsed dorsal fins and says they are normal. Seaworld has a list of excuses for collapsed dorsal fins, but the excuses would happen in the ocean as well and it’s very rare in the ocean. Orcas do not need their dorsal fin to live, but this shows that SeaWorld is not good for these

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