Blackfish Documentary Analysis

The documentary Blackfish, is about SeaWorld and all the mishaps that occurred there and whether or not SeaWorld could be held responsible for the tragedies financially, and if they were responsible to tell the public as well as the employee's of SeaWorld, to let them know what happened to previous trainers before Tilikum came to SeaWorld. And why SeaWorld justifies the continued existence for animal captivity as well as the breeding of the captive animals. In the documentary you notice how SeaWorld it’s corporation was not really concerned with the mishaps that would happen and how every time something occurred Tilikum the killer whale was somehow involved. And instead of stopping the captivity of the killer whales they would just move him from location to location trying to keep everything quiet from the attacks from each location. This shows that SeaWorld has no justification for the captivity of the killer whales and is just trying to make profit off the public by keeping their number one event going.

And then they show clips of employees talking about the killer whales given false facts. Such as “ 25% of Orcas have the flipped over dorsal fin.” and then the one of the former employees actually corrects that statement by saying “ less than 1% of Orcas have a flipped over dorsal fin.” and they just say things like this, and that all the Orcas come from the same pod to draw in more customers from the public to rake in more money for the corporation of