Blackfish written by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. From the start attraction at Sealand of the Pacific in 1969, the aquarium grew attention for their orcas that would perform. Years later a two year old whale was captured and arrived in 81’. His name was Tilikum, coming in at two years old and 4,000 pounds. How do you go about taking orcas out of their setting, changing how they feel, and go about certain lies of how situations occurred?
The continuous telling of tall tales in regard to the reality of the attack is more evidence that the attack was something of concern. It wasn’t so hard for police and trainers to blame the attack on Dawn when she was no longer alive to protect and defend herself. One of the professionals from the film said that all whales in captivity are emotionally destroyed and physically traumatized. The evidence given in the documentary shows this to be true. One of the other speakers in the documentary was talking about how Tilikum is not killing to be a savage; he is killing because he is frustrated.
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This is the story of a young orca whale named Tilikum, One of the largest orcas at SeaWorld, He weighs 12,500 pounds and is about 22 feet in length. 33 years ago on November 1983 a 2 year old orca was captured in Iceland where he was named Tilikum and was approximately 13 feet long; Torn away from family and put in a cement holding tank in a Marine Zoo in Iceland the poor calf would swim in small circles and float aimlessly on the surface. Tilikum later on was transferred to SeaLand in Canada where he had to share a tank with two female orcas (Haida and Nootak) who were regularly injuring Tilikum. He was forced to do shows 8 times a day, 7 days a week; The stress and exhaustion gave him stomach Ulcers.
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Unlike in the wild, where orcas tend to avoid human interaction, there have been dozens of fatal and non-fatal incidents involving captive orcas and humans. The most famous example of this features the largest captive orca in history, Tilikum, who was initially owned by Sealand in Victoria, B.C, before being sold to SeaWorld for their breeding program. Over the course of his life, he directly caused the deaths of three humans: two trainers, Keltie Byrne and Dawn Brancheau, and one trespassing man, Daniel P. Dukes. The most well-known of the three deaths, Dawn Brancheau, was witnessed by a live audience during a SeaWorld Orlando show in 2010, during which she had been suddenly yanked into the water by Tillikum, who not only scalped her and tore off her arm, but also refused to release her body for nearly an hour. Years of abuse and mistreatment had accumulated to anger and exhaustion in the orca, and eventually, he snapped and lunged towards the closest human, who unfortunately happened to be Dawn.
Over the years there has been controversies with the way SeaWorld treat the animals and the type of behaviors animals portray as a result of its enclosures. SeaWorld's defense of capturing
The main purpose of Blackfish is to answer why a captured whale would become so aggressive and turn on its trainers. To answer this Cowperthwaite frames the documentary around Tilikum by interviewing experts in the field such as Lori Marino (Director of Science with Non-human Rights Program), and former SeaWorld trainers, such as John Hardgrove who recall capturing young orca 's, like Tilikum, away from their families and placing them into solitary confinement. One of the most emotionally gripping parts of the film is a heartbreaking
No living creature should be separated from their mothers at such young age. Sometimes, the whales that are not captured are harpooned and killed when they threaten to interfere with the others captivation. (10 things you didn’t
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Furthermore, this can be the cause of all the incidence including to what happened to Dawn Brancheau who was completely mutilated by a whale. Despite the interview with a former trainer, from a document which was published after the release of Blackfish by SeaWorld to object
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Unfortunately this would be a day many would remember forever and not in a good way. The show started off like every other day until Tilikum, the killer whale, grabbed his trainer Dawna Brancheau by the hair and violently attacked her. After the violent attack “the autopsy determined that Dawna Brancheau died of blunt force trauma to the head, neck, and torso, Tilikum broke his trainers jaw, fractured part of her vertebra, dislocated one of her elbows along with her knee as he tossed her around the pool” ( ). Tilikum was so violent with Dawna that part of her scalp was forcibly torn off her head. This wasn’t the first person Tilikum has killed, in 1991 Keltie Byrne (Burn) Tili’s former trainer slipped and fell in a pool with three whales and Tilikum grabbed her by the feet and the whales started to “play” with her, Keltie drowned to death, in 1999 a homeless man named Daniel Dukes snuck into to park, stripped down from his clothes and jumped into the pool, the man appeared to have been drowned, and in 2010 he grabbed his former trainer Dawna by the hair and thrashed her around the pool until she died.
Orcas are incredibly smart, so the mother orcas would swim away from where the herding was happening. As a result to this, SeaWorld began releasing planes that would fly over the sea and find the mothers, because the orcas had to come up for air eventually. They would throw bombs into the water, so the orcas would be forced to go into nets. One of the whales, named Tilikum, who recently died in January of 2017, was kidnapped from the ocean at the young age of two. A man named Ted Griffin, who helped capture the whales, killed a mother whale in front of her daughter, to later be named Shamu; the first performing whale at SeaWorld.
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