TITLE:
Beneath the surface : killer whales, SeaWorld, and the truth beyond Blackfish / John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
vii, 264 p., [8] p. of plates : color ill.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, and he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781137280107
