Yeah, exactly. And then, at the corporate level, we had somebody that was sort of in constant in each one of those little buckets. They’re not little. So they would have dotted lines to everybody else at the parks. But it was a nice spiderweb, ’cause it worked well. Everybody… Read More
“Don’t sit at your desk, and don’t play with your computer. Read More
Go out and see the animals.” You spoke a little about it, but what would you say is your management style?… Read More
And does it change or stay the same?… Read More
As the chief officer, how many direct reports do you have?… Read More
We didn’t really have, I didn’t have a lot of direct reports. It was like seven or eight. Each park ran autonomously to a park general manager. So they had dotted lines from each park to me. So there was a VP of zoological operations at each park that had… Read More
Similar to what you had done?… Read More
It’s a good thing.” As the main animal person, do you become the spokesperson for SeaWorld in this area or is this left to public relations?… Read More
Or do they just lean on you for information?… Read More
Well they’d certainly lean on you for information in terms of… But I was usually the spokesperson. Julie Scardina also was our spokesperson. I’ll always kid Julie, Julie was beautiful and she was great with animals and she loved animals. And she still does. And she still works in conservation… Read More
And it made sense, simply because we were getting attacked again and again on the care of the animals. And I’m not a veterinarian. I’m certainly an experienced animal person, but we thought that that would be somewhat of a better front. And I don’t mean that in a demeaning… Read More
Most of the SeaWorld parks were somewhat the same. They had the same type of entities in it, or the same type of animal, the same type of… In the recent years, the parks have evolved into more family entertainment with roller coasters and other types of virtual realities and… Read More
What is Sea Rescue?… Read More
Sea Rescue is just sort of a brand within the company that talks about our rescue programs. It was a logo, or it was a logo and an idea that we could talk more about that, which I thought was a great idea. ‘Cause our rescue and rehab and release… Read More
And you’ve talked about the different parks. Read More
Does each park have a specialty or are they essentially the same?… Read More
And we treated him with the utmost respect and care and took care of him. We then, I don’t remember exactly what year, we had a vagrant who had snuck into the park and hid in the bushes who was on drugs decide to go skinny dipping one night with… Read More
Has it changed?… Read More
Has there been a new message or a new direction of the training for the public?… Read More
There’s been new shows introduced now called Orca Encounter, I think. I haven’t seen them. I’m no longer directly affiliated with that portion of the company. That is more focused on their behavior, which the other shows were too. And it’s probably more focused on education and conservation than the… Read More