new blog: Video: SeaWorld Debuts New Killer Whale Show “One Ocean”

[LeahZ]

http://www.disunplugged.com/2011/04/24/video-seaworld-debuts-new-killer-whale-show-one-ocean/

 

[cajunaggie]

Can't wait!!! We will be there in 3 weeks.

 

[Bete]

Can you please say how much trainer and whale action in the water there is with the new show? Do the trainers still ride the whales in the water? Do the trainers make jumps with the whales in the water? Is there more of these actions or less with the new show? From what you are showing (I know it's not the whole show) it looks like they have reduced big time any trainers in the water with the whales. Maybe, they had to with the accidents that were happening; safety has to be first, but I'm curious how the new show is with or without more stunts with the trainers involved with the whales in the water.

 

[Bete]

and I watched a 9 minute video of the new show and I saw over 200 pictures so far from others. I didn't see one interaction with trainer and whale in the water with what I saw (no riding or jumping). I can understand being more cautious, but to have nothing. To me this is dissappointing and I haven't even seen the show yet. It's like getting a downgrade from the Believe show; sorry, I'm not impressed at all.

It is what it is, but I wished SeaWorld would have made an announcement of sorts indicating for safety reasons that it needed to do it this way.

 

[livndisney]

Can you please say how much trainer and whale action in the water there is with the new show? Do the trainers still ride the whales in the water? Do the trainers make jumps with the whales in the water? Is there more of these actions or less with the new show? From what you are showing (I know it's not the whole show) it looks like they have reduced big time any trainers in the water with the whales. Maybe, they had to with the accidents that were happening; safety has to be first, but I'm curious how the new show is with or without more stunts with the trainers involved with the whales in the water.

The trainers are not in the water with the whales and have not been since the accident. The plan with this show is to eventually have the trainers back in the water.

 

[KBF]

and I watched a 9 minute video of the new show and I saw over 200 pictures so far from others. I didn't see one interaction with trainer and whale in the water with what I saw (no riding or jumping). I can understand being more cautious, but to have nothing. To me this is dissappointing and I haven't even seen the show yet. It's like getting a downgrade from the Believe show; sorry, I'm not impressed at all.

It is what it is, but I wished SeaWorld would have made an announcement of sorts indicating for safety reasons that it needed to do it this way.

Seaworld has said in just about every news interview that the trainers are not in the water with the whales at this time. It was that way during the last few months of Believe ever since the accident in February of 2010. That's why this new show was put in. This show is designed for trainers to be out of the water where Believe was not. Believe with trainers out of the water was a very bad show. I really like this new show, I think it works with the situation that Seaworld is in right now. Seaworld plans to put trainers back in the water in the future. But only when all the necessary safety precautions have taken place.

 

[magicbob]

There is talk of eventually installing a rising floor in the tank as a safety measure (as well as roaming robot cams, etc.) but that will probably take many years. I think a new show is fine, especially when the alternative is just peforming the old show without many of it's elements.

I don't like the new wetsuits as much, though. The killer whale design was awesome, but maybe they think that could have contributed to the incident.

 

[KBF]

There is talk of eventually installing a rising floor in the tank as a safety measure (as well as roaming robot cams, etc.) but that will probably take many years. I think a new show is fine, especially when the alternative is just peforming the old show without many of it's elements.

I don't like the new wetsuits as much, though. The killer whale design was awesome, but maybe they think that could have contributed to the incident.

An interesting fact: The trainers still wear the Believe wetsuits. They now wear skins over them, which is the one ocean look. The wetsuits change with each show, I doubt they changed them because of the accident. If that were the case, they would have changed them last year.

The rumor is, they are building that rising floor in the dine with shamu pool right now. Which is why Dine With Shamu and underwater viewing have been closed for so long. Hopefully the new floor is installed in the main pool soon.

 

[julieannbabe]

did you hear that on saturday tilly didn't want to perform in the show - guests starting walking out.
damn that whale - why won't he do what he is told??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9JfQwj8bc&feature=player_embedded

 

[KBF]

did you hear that on saturday tilly didn't want to perform in the show - guests starting walking out.
damn that whale - why won't he do what he is told??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9JfQwj8bc&feature=player_embedded

Yep I heard. But it just goes to show that what anti captivity people say is wrong. You all say the animals are forced to perform. The fact is, they aren't. And this video proves it. Seaworld didn't force Tilly to do anything. They ended the show because he didn't want to perform. It was totally his choice. Just like its his choice to perform if he wants.

Because of thie one show that he doesn't want to perform in out of the hundreds of shows done each month and now all the anti captivity people are all "SEE! LOOK HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO SHOWS ANYMORE!" Bad news for you is, he was performing the show after this, and every show since then. So one show out of 100 or so shows in the past month he doesn't feel like performing in one. It doesn't prove anything except that Seaworld doesn't force their animals to do anything.