Seaworld Analysis

Have you ever been to Seaworld? Seaworld the animated theme park has three scenarios situated in Orlando (Florida), San Diego (California) and San Antonio (Texas). On previous years, Seaworld has been several times criticised through documentaries and articles about their mistreatment to orca whales. The Seaworld theme park promises, an educative experience throughout several performances and aquariums exhibiting the exotic marine species. But is these what they truly offer? Even though, Seaworld spectacles have come to the attention of former trainers and biologist about the inadequate treatment the orca’s and other marine species are getting when they are offstage. The problem lies in the animal abuse that the orca whales are going through
However they have no further knowledge about the clear harm their doing. When a hard topic as the unfortunate treatment of a whole specie comes to the attention of key opinion leaders, it acquires an special relevance around the world. For example, in the article: “PETA files new animal abuse charges against Seaworld” by Bob Ponting from Fox 5, we can find the following: “the organization asked the department to look into the issue of orca whales getting sunburned while in SeaWorld's care.”. This simple statement is a good argument of one of the several ways seaworld miscarries the orcas by allowing them to get sunburns. Seaworld argues the opposite that in their captivity program the orca’s are never miscarried. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t allowing orca’s to get sunburns miscarrying the
They should understand they are not only causing harm to the whales but also to themselves. Since 1991 there has been registered more than 70 cases of orca whales in the state of captivity attacking their trainers, unlike in the wild 0 cases of aggressive orca’s towards humans. This is an extremely scary statistic considering that fifty percent of these cases were caused by the presence of an audience, and most of them leaded to death. This percentage is prove of how dangerous are the activities developed through performances. Accidents may happen once in awhile, but Seaworld was aware of the harm orca whales may cause in captivity. As soon as they purchased Tilikum, a whale who caused the closure of Sealand in Canada, when it killed his trainer, Keltie Byrne. As soon as Seaworld presented Tilikum in their shows without considering his aggressive background and forgetting their direct responsibility in front of the consequences and risks that this may bring to the trainers who interact with him. Don’t you think we had enough deaths