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I was early on in touch with her family members. i interviewed both of her sisters. they're not going to focus on her death and that one day. their energies are put towards remembering dawn a a person and how she led her life. and i can only sort of say that, you know, didn't know dawn. i wish she was more represented in the film in some sort of way, but i also sort of can only hope that if dawn knew of this movie she might be okay with something that protects the whales she loved and dedicated her life to and protects and keeps her, her fellow trainers safe. >> let me bring in naomi rose. thi...

For atrust bufferin, [ female announcer ] today, cisco is connecting the internet of everything. the only non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain reliever formulated with special buffers so it's gentler to your stomach. welcome back to this anderson cooper special report "inside blackfish: killers in captivity." i'm with guests tonight. orca biologist naomi rose and jack hanna, director of the columbus zoo. thank you for coming back. naomi, let me ask you this. the question here is captivity. you say captivity kills orcas. you're very up front with that, right? >> right. i've studied them for 2...

As if, you know, killer whales were inherently dangerous. they wanted it to seem as though working with killer whales in the water was inherently safe. >> keeping them honest, we called seaworld to find out why it quashed the report. they said that the employee who did it was uninformed and reckless. when we asked osha why it decided to rewrite the report, they said it was inappropriate and speculative and science could not support the statements. >> it is unbelievable that a commercial corporation was able to influence what should have been an objective investigation by an agency whose sole f...

November 2006 at seaworld in san diego. veteran trainer ken peters, gently rubbing a 5,000-pound killer whale, desperately trying to get the female orca to release his left foot from its jaws. just minutes before during a trick, the whale trapped the trainer underwater for nearly one minute. he survived with some broken bones. the attack prompted a major health and safety agency in california to release a scathing report of seaworld and issue a stern warning. in 2006, osha investigators predicted a whale trainer would be killed by a whale at the san diego park, concluding that swimming with ca...

>> reporter: we counted. the original report was 18 pages. the revised report? ten pages shorter. what was lost in the rewrite, orca biologist naomi rose warns, could have saved a life. randi kaye, cnn, new york. my next guest was the first person to train a killer world. in captivity. that was in the 60s iss when richard o'barry was the trainer of dolphins who played the role of flipper. he waged a long fight to release dolphins in captivity. he profiled in "the cove." richard o'barry joins me now. you heard randi's report. you say that's kind of par for the course for company like seaworld...