Interview 11040 – Caption Index: 327
What is Sea Rescue?… 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
No, no, now, you met mentioned that the orca, Tilikum, can you give just a brief overview?… 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