Interview 11040 – Caption Index: 317
Tilikum was from Marineland, or he was brought and then he stayed?… Read More
Tilikum was from Marineland, or he was brought and then he stayed?… Read More
What was his story that led up to the incident at the park?… Read More
Tilikum was collected in Iceland by an another entity back in ’80, ’79 or ’80, I don’t remember exactly the year. It was taken to Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, Canada and lived there for many years with two other female whales. Those animals up there were never desensitized… Read More
Now, what impact did that have on the marine mammal presentations?… Read More
At the time, none, other than the trainer’s out of the water. That didn’t bother me as much as the fact that we were being criticized for poor care, which isn’t true at all. The movie continually talked about we’d mistreated the animals and we did this and we did… Read More
Now I’m getting angry. Read More
No, no, San Antonio was still part of the mix, it’s all the parks that they have. There was 11 parks, and I think seven of them had animals. So everything was just moving along just fine. And where we started to run into some more problems simply was in… Read More
And then we decided to get out of the water completely. The criticism from the activists got stronger. Somewhere around 2013, a documentary was sold to CNN and they played it over and over and over and over again. And it was called “Blackfish.” And it was a slick, slick… Read More
And I sat there. And I’m looking at her in the mirror now ’cause she’s clipping my hair from behind. I said, “So you saw ‘Blackfish.'” And she goes, “Yes.” I go, “Well, tell me, what’d you think?” And she says, “Well, why did you separate the babies from their… Read More
But yet, the activists loved it. And from that point on, things got just a little bit more hairy every day. Read More
That is, what does SeaWorld consist of in 2008 to ’16 when you’re the chief zoological officer?… Read More
The consistency of the animal group or the zoological umbrella really stayed very much the same. Read More
Do you have San Antonio or, no, that’s gone?… Read More
How’s this affecting your personal life?… Read More
It always affected my personal life in some form. My wife is a wonderful person and she has a busy life with her horses and we share common interests when we’re together. I’d always communicate with her when I was moving. And I imagine one of the things that was… Read More
So, right now, is the structure- And it still works. (laughs) Good, is the structure at SeaWorld the same?… Read More
The responsibilities, basically, were much the same. Read More
However, we he now had a board of directors who, again, wanted to know about why would we do this and why would we, you know, “What’s the criticism coming from Tilikum the whale?… Read More
“What’s going on here?” So you had to spend more energy trying to explain to them a 40-year history or a 45-year history leading up to that particular point in time, why we’re talking about these things or why this seems to be an issue or why it’s not an… Read More
You didn’t replace anybody?… Read More