Brief Summary Of The Film 'Blackfish'

Blackfish is a documentary explaining and releasing to the public all the dangers and/or cruelty having whales in a tank or in an enclosure can come with or lead to. This documentary touches on many topics from how they catch the whales to the struggles and hardships the whales face leading up to tragic events ether for the whales or the humans in contact with them.
The documentary starts by talking about how the whales are caught. The process takes a lot of man power and tools like tracker plains, bouts, nets, jetskes at times and a lot of man power. The process starts by looking for a group with offspring reason being they are easier to catch do to their lack of experience, they are easier to train, and they are much easier to transport. What they do is round the smaller whales or whale in a net so the older whales can’t interfere with the extraction process and of course so it can’t swim away, once they have the whale they take it to its new home. This can result in problems later in their life being that they could be traumatized by being taken away from their families at an early age
The next part is moving in and getting adjusted to a completely new environment with other whales never seen before.
Whales have a lot of competition for many reasons but one is the fact that they know if they perform well there actions will be met with compensation causing them to try harder and be superior to the newer smaller whales, another problem they might face is that in some cases at certain SeaWorld if one whale messed up they all get punishment by not receiving food causing the older more experience whales to rebel against the newer ones, they can hurt the smaller whale by brushing it with their teeth. This stage might be traumatic for the whale the same way some humans can be traumatized by having a
bully.
As we get deeper a deeper into the documentary we start seeing issues in the whales for example cetin whales being to show aggressive behaviors that experts correlate to past traumatic events. In this portion of the documentary they also show us the behind the sense or in other words the things SeaWorld doesn’t want us to know like the fact that they have bought whales with prior aggressive behavior and the many cases that they never let the public hear about over 75 cases never reported or heard about till now.
They concluded the documentary by showing cases and the risk trainers face every single day being in the tank with these extraordinary creatures. These horrors and crazy events like separating animals from there family’s and deaths on both sides all for one thing money.