Seaworld: Documentary Analysis

Blackfish is a documentary that came out July 19, 2013. This documentary describes the conditions of orca whales at seaworld. It was filmed in a point of view that shows that seaworld is harmful to orca whales and that the whales suffer from being kept in captivity. After this came out, Seaworld wrote an article saying that Blackfish is propaganda, not an actual documentary. Seaworld claims that they are beneficial for orca whales because they perform research that benefit whales in the wild. In the documentary the author claims that Seaworld is harmful to Orca whales. Also that the whales suffer from many problems when they are kept in captivity. The whole documentary shows evidence supporting this claim. One piece of evidence is that the babies are removed from their mothers before they are ready. They go on to explain how young whales are taken from their mothers in captivity at a much younger age than they would separate from them in the wild. This piece of evidence is important because it shows that Seaworld is not always acting in the best interest of the whales. It supports the claim by showing that Seaworld is more interested in the profit that the whales bring in than in maintaining family groups for the whales.

Another piece of evidence is that Seaworld trainers withhold food from the whales as

In the article they described how Blackfish is propaganda, not a documentary. They claimed that Seaworld is beneficial for Orca Whales because they perform research that benefits wild whales. One piece of evidence from the article is that Seaworld has not collected whales from the wild in 35 years. This means that the documentary may have misrepresented some or all of their facts. This is important because if they misrepresented one thing, what else is actually true? This supports Seaworld’s claim because it shows that Seaworld isn’t out to harm or remove wild