people that work in the business know the reputation of places. and loro parque doesn t have a good reputation. they didn t spend the same amount of time as the seaworld trainers, didn t go through the same regimen the seaworld trainers went through. and alexis really was the best trainer. and i did say, i said, you re the only trainer there that can hold his own with a seaworld draper. but i said, you know, you need to be careful.
always questioning, like, how did they make that leap to send four young orcas to a park off the west coast of africa with trainers who a lot of them had never been around orcas before. nothing was ready. the venue wasn t ready. it wasn t ready for the orcas. it wasn t ready for a show. the owner of the park didn t want to lose revenue by shutting down the pools and repairing them. so for three years the animals ate the pools and they had problems with their teeth and stomachs. so that s why the animals are enduring the endoscope procedures. those are still seaworld s animals, and they are responsible for those animals. loro parque doesn t have a good reputation.
it was a perfect show. all the hot dog sequences, water works sequences went off great. i was really excited just to be capturing this because it was kind of turning out to be a great show. a show that s kind of complete, it doesn t it probably only only happens a few times a week. at the very end of the show, liz was working tilikum and apparently tilikum lunged out of the water at her. and i had captured tilikum coming out of the water kind of turning sideways and appeared to me to try to grab liz, and at that moment, the tape became unusable. i was just kind of basically instructed to get rid of the tape. wanting to kind of preserve the tape, i actually used the editing equipment and snipped out that little half second or second when he did that and stitched it back together so it just kind of looked like a glitch in the tape. and i m like look at this, and it s like, no, this is no longer usable.
there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided that they had to stop the show because they couldn t get the whales under control. tilikum was in the back pool set up to do a dive shamu performance with dawn. likely she saw what had gone on during the main show, and so she had probably felt more pressure to do a good show. when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there s a couple of behaviors she asked him to do where tilikum jumps right in and does exactly what she asks him to do. we re going to show you how agile these guys are. there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, so to speak. and my humble opinion, it was at that missed bridge whistle bridge on the perimeter pec wave. she asked him to do a perimeter pec wave where she asked him to basically go all
that time was that dolphins are a lot bigger than they look when you get in the water next to them. well, i watched this sea lion and otter show and this guy mike moracco, he comes out during the show with a dress on as dorky in a dress with the sea lion, the coward sea lion and walking along with a basket. i thought i will never ever do that, you know. two months later, hi, i m dorky. walking out on stage with the sea lion. i was overwhelmed and i was so excited. i mean, just seeing a killer whale is breathtaking. i was just in awe. it s shocking to see how large they are and how beautiful they are.