In an L.A. Times op-ed, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment’s president and CEO Joel Manby announced today that SeaWorld is ending its orca-breeding program this year. “And because SeaWorld hasn’t collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld’s care,” writes…
Another week, another bad headline for the country’s most successful whale jail.
SeaWorld, which has increasingly fallen out of public favor since the release of the 2013 documentary Blackfish, has announced a plan to trick the public into thinking it’s actually doing something for the killer whales it’s keeping captive (and driving mad). Per The San Diego Union-Tribune:
PETA says that an activist who participated in the group’s protests against mammal prison Sea World for years was actually a Sea World employee sent to infiltrate them. “Grab your pitch forks and torches. Time to take down SeaWorld,” the whale-torturing corporate whore wrote on Facebook at one point.
A new class action lawsuit has been filed against SeaWorld in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports. This is the second such suit filed against the company in the last month. The earlier suit was filed in California.
Mammal torture porn operator Sea World is launching a new ad campaign to assure you, the onetime Sea World patron who's been eaten alive by guilt ever since you saw Blackfish, that everything is A-OK with those whales. They love whales!
Firing back at former SeaWorld trainer John Hargrove, who was featured in the 2013 documentary Blackfish, the theme park released a five-year-old cell phone video of a clearly drunk Hargrove shouting "nigger" to a friend on speakerphone.
The CEO of Sea World has resigned, after one little documentary called Blackfish led to a nonstop onslaught of protests and a plummeting stock price and a storm of outrage that continues to this day. Hopefully the next step will be the company's bankruptcy.
Something like this was bound to pop up in the wake of the acclaimed documentary Blackfish: a California state assemblyman named Richard Bloom has proposed a bill that would ban orcas from being used for performative reasons.
Earlier this month, a man named Carlo De Leonibus visited SeaWorld Orlando and caught sight of a beached pilot whale stuck on a ledge during a dolphin show. His account of the length of time this went on varies — he says 10 minutes, "though my wife and daughter think it was more like 20 minutes.” His description of 38…
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite recently told the New York Times that she approached her documentary Blackfish as a journalist with an open mind. The resulting film, which is about killer whales in captivity (specifically at SeaWorld and focusing on the 32-year-old orca Tilikum, who's killed three people), is…
A family trip to SeaWorld Orlando to interact with her favorite animal ended in trauma for 8-year-old Jillian Thomas of Alpharetta, Georgia, after she was bitten by a hungry dolphin.
Upsetting photos have surfaced showing in great detail the extent of a severe laceration sustained recently by an 11-year-old male orca at SeaWorld San Diego.
Three British men who broke into an Australian Sea World while intoxicated, swam with dolphins and stole a penguin, claimed they had no memory of the incident when the woke up hungover the next day.
Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the KONY 2012 video, has been diagnosed with reactive psychosis following an incident where he was detained for publicly masturbating near Sea World, according to a statement from his wife, Danica Russell:
So: thanks to TMZ, here's video of KONY 2012 mastermind Jason Russell's public meltdown in San Diego. We'll note that what he's doing there doesn't look, exactly, like "masturbating in public" which is what he was originally reported as having been detained over:
PETA has filed a lawsuit charging SeaWorld with violating the 13th Amendment by enslaving killer whales. This could be interesting.
Literal killer whale Tilikum—the six-ton orca that thrashed a 40-year-old trainer to death in front of a live audience last year—has returned to Sea World's increasingly harrowing killer whale show, "Believe." Apparently the show is an "important component" in Tilikum's "physical, social, and mental enrichment," and…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined SeaWorld Orlando $75,000 for three safety violations stemming from the killer whale attack that led to trainer Dawn Brancheau's death this past February. SeaWorld says it plans to contest the violations.
