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Ric O'Barry | March 2, 2013 12:46 AM
Before you buy that ticket to Sea World, Miami Seaquarium, or another dolphin abusement park, please consider buying a ticket to see Blackfish.
Ric O'Barry | March 2, 2013 12:45 AM
Before you buy that ticket to Sea World, Miami Seaquarium, or another dolphin abusement park, please consider buying a ticket to see Blackfish.
Ric O'Barry | March 2, 2013 12:45 AM
Before you buy that ticket to Sea World, Miami Seaquarium, or another dolphin abusement park, please consider buying a ticket to see Blackfish.
Ric O'Barry | March 2, 2013 12:44 AM
Before you buy that ticket to Sea World, Miami Seaquarium, or another dolphin abusement park, please consider buying a ticket to see Blackfish.
Britt | January 31, 2013 10:56 PM
Jake, I'd like to capture you from your house -- might harm your family in doing so, throw you in an 8x8 room with no human interaction, make you do un-natural actions, feed you ONLY if you perform my requests, FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE....... then you can tell me if I am doing a "great thing". Oh, you cant go crazy and try to kill me, because that is not right! lol It's a complete Joke and a disgrace to all man kind. We are doing a disfavor to our own existence!
What have we learned FROM SeaWorld by keeping these creatures in jail? Other than whooopie, they breed!
Jake | January 23, 2013 9:28 PM
Blackfish circles around the stories of former trainers. Their statements although compelling are nothing more than a jab back at a business that got rid of them. Why would anyone believe an opinion of a former employee who was fired? SeaWorld does great things.
Lynell | January 22, 2013 6:16 PM
Sea World, the time has well past to revamp your industry. You have the ability to rehabilitate hurt and injured sea animals and release them. Use that as a "business"; save the oceans and save yourselves.
Daniel Jost | January 16, 2013 6:33 PM
SeaWorld, this is the beginning of your end - unless, by some miracle, you can radically reshape your business model...