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Hi, shamu. hi, everybody. were the johnsons from detroit, michigan. we sure had a great time when we visited seaworld. its one of our favorite places. >> yeah, i like when shamu gets everybody wet. >> when the whales get up close to the glass, start kicking up the water, whammo, youre a goner. ♪ >> orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whales tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped...

A circus environment. and they should release the animals that are young enough and healthy enough to be released. and the animals like tilikum that are old and sick and have put in 25 years in the industry should be released to an open ocean pen to live out their lives and experience the rhythm of the ocean. >> this is a multibillion dollar organization. >> theyre not suitable to have in captivity. >> the whales are really bored. you deprive them of all this environmental stimulation. >> i thin...

Whales in captivity. many opponents of aquariums and marine parks would like to see the killer whales set free, but how can that be done? the other question, once theyre set free, what next? cnns martin savage has been looking into just that question. martin? >> brooke, theres no question that the movie "blackfish" has stirred up a lot of controversy and has some people rethinking this whole idea of captivity for killer whales. but then what do you do? in other words, can you just set them free?...

This is a crazed animal that acted out and grabbed dawn maliciously, they want to prove the theorum that captivity whales makes them crazy. and that is just false. >> all whales in captivity have a bad life. theyre all psychologically traumatized. so they are ticking time bombs. its not just tilikum. >> we have to separate what happened to dawn, and as tragic as it is, no one wants to ever see it ever happen again. can seaworld create an environment where it never happens again? yes, i absolutel...

Concrete enclosure for your life when youre used to swimming 100 miles a day? >> sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact whales have died in captivity because of this aggression. >> i think it was 1988 kamdu tried dominance over corky. rammed corky. it fractured her jaw, which cut an artery in her head, and then she bled out. thats got to be a hard way to go down. i saw there was just a lot of things that werent right. and there was a lot of misinformation and something was ami...

Maliciously, they want to prove the theorem that captivity makes animals violent. crazy. and that is just false. >> all animals in captivity have a bad life. theyre all destroyed. theyre all psychologically traumatized. so they are ticking time bombs. its not just tilikum. >> we have to separate what happened to dawn, and as tragic as it is and no one wants to see it happen again. can seaworld create an environment where it never happens again? yes, i absolutely believe they can. what if there w...

Hi, everybody. were the johnsons from detroit, michigan. we sure had a great time when we visited seaworld. its one of our favorite places. >> yeah, i like when shamu gets everybody wet. >> when the whales get up close to the glass, start kicking up the water, whammo, youre a goner. >> orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whales tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped over the back ...

Now to the backlash over "blackfish" the cnn film just recently aired several times here about what happens to some killer whales trained in captivity. this film profiles several former trainers including one who will not bring their children to see world shows, and it has many of you thinking, you know, should parents take their children to see these animal shows, take them to these parks? one of our cnni reporters, a faurkt of two boys, says no. >> its not fair to these animals that were kidna...

A circus environment, and they should release the animals that are young enough and healthy enough to be released. and the whales like tilikum that are old and sick that have put in 205years in this environment, should be released to an ocean pen so they can live out their lives and experience the national rhythms of the ocean. >> this is a multibillion dollar corporation that makes its money through the exploitation of orcas. >> theyre not suitable to have in captivity. >> the whales are really...

Were abducted while walking to their neighborhood wendys, bruce said the toledo police did nothing. >> they believe its just a runaway, just a runaway, just a runaway. >> in fact, the eighth and ninth graders had been kidnapped by a notorious ohio pimp and two women who beat and sexually abused them. the michigan u.s. attorney prosecuted the case. >> they were told they were going to have to call willoughby daddy, that they were going to be required to engage in sex acts for money. and then the ...