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CNN Blackfish August 16, 2015 01:43:00

Smile, buddy. i was under the impression that tilikum had nothing to do with her death. specifically, that it was the female whales responsible for her death. what i found really odd at first was the way they were acting around this whale and what they told us seemed to me to be two different things. the first day he arrived, i remember one of the senior trainers at seaworld, tilikum was in a pool and she was walking over a gate and she had her wet suit unzipped tied around her waist and making cooing noises and going hey, tilikum. what a cute little whale. and she was just kind of play talking at him. and one of the supervisors said, get her out of there! just screamed at her. like, get her away from there, they were so worried that something was going to happen. and i remember thinking, why are you guys making such a big deal out of this when he didn t actually kill her? well, clearly management thought there was some reason to exercise caution around him. you know. clearly, they k ....

Killer Whale , First Seaworld , Im The One , Gate 3 , Jeff Ventre , Ladies And Gentlemen ,

CNN Blackfish August 16, 2015 02:35:00

Can hear the ice clanging around and the fishy, soupy water at the bottom. and the handfuls of fish they re getting delivered by the trainer are all getting smaller. so they know they re coming down to the end of session. when you see the difference between the beginning of the video and the end of the video, you can see that he s just not quite on his game anymore. there s no food left. she kept asking him for more and more behaviors. he wasn t getting reinforced for the behaviors he was doing correctly. he probably was frustrated towards the end. then she walked around the perimeter of g-pool. he followed her. and then continued over into the rocky ledge area where she laid down with him to do a relationship session, which is quiet time, basically. tilikum at some point grabbed ahold of her left forearm and started to drag her and did a barrel roll and pulled her in. ....

Deep Water , The End , Ice Clanging , It Wasn T , Food Left , Dog Pool , Relationship Session , Rocky Ledge Area , Barrel Roll ,

CNN Blackfish August 16, 2015 02:19:00

Splashing or screaming? i mean, i just find that really suspicious. one of the employees, i don t know if it was a physical therapist or somebody was coming in in the morning, and there was tilikum with a dead naked guy on his back, kind of parading him around the back pool. the public relation spin on this was he was a drifter and died of hypothermia, but the medical examiner reports were more graphic than that. for example, tilikum stripped him, bit off his genitals. there was bite marks all over his body. now, whether that was post-death or pre-death, i don t know. but all i can comment on is that the guy definitely jumped in the wrong pool. so why keep tilikum there? ....

I Dont Know , Pre Death , Al L ,

CNN Blackfish August 16, 2015 02:33:00

there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided that they had to stop the show because they couldn t get the whales under control. tilikum was in the back pool set up to do a dine with shamu performance with dawn. likely she saw what had gone on during the main show, and so she had probably felt more pressure to do a good show. when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there s a couple of behaviors she asked him to do where tilikum jumps right in and does exactly what she asks him to do. there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, so to speak. and my humble opinion, it was at that missed bridge whistle ....

Whales Werent Operating , The Main Show , Each Other , Back Pool , T Be Dawn , She Saw , Dawn In The Beginning ,

CNN Blackfish August 16, 2015 01:26:00

Like, it was very easy to tell. sealand of the pacific closed its doors and was looking, i guess, to make a buck on the way out and these whales are worth millions of dollars. when seaworld heard that tilikum was available after this accident at sealand of the pacific, they really wanted tilikum because they needed a breeder. so i don t even think that anybody even was questioning like, is this a good idea? my understanding of the situation was that tilikum and the others would not be used in shows. they would not be performance animals. our understanding of their behavior was it was such a highly stimulating event for them, they were likely to repeat it. sealand was we were all young and a bit of sea cowboys, and we weren t so technical and scientific as seaworld. so we all had this vision that they knew more than us and they were better than us and tilikum would have a better pool and better life and he d have better care and he d have better food and be a great life for hi ....

Sealand Of The Pacific , First Seaworld , Sea Land , Sea Cowboys ,