Essay On Sea World

“Do you believe?”; children from the 90’s can remember the infamous Sea World slogan, as well as Shamu on the television flying through the clouds and in between buildings in large cities. Which, in turn, always lead to begging your parents to taking a trip to Sea World. Sea World is the place where people of any age, can go and experience all the creatures that hide beneath the oceans’ surface. Due to recent reports, the words abuse and neglect would have never come to mind when Sea World was mentioned. Until, the media was forced to put a critical spotlight on the once family orientated destination. The highly visited theme park known as Sea World was where many fingers’ were being pointed because of the abusive allegations towards killer whales and the disregard for trainer safety, within the last 5 years. The reasoning for the media targeting and highlighting the faults of the nationwide corporation was due to the several deaths of the Orca trainers. The unbelievably beautiful Orcas, aka killer whales, are …show more content…
There were sworn affidavits from former employees alleging they had witnessed important documents regarding certain trainer deaths by Killer whales being destroyed. Many feel that with the recent signs of aggression from the killer whales, trainers should not be allowed to swim with the Orcas. The idea or motive came from OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and the only way OSHA could pursue the motive or actually get Sea World to make it a new rule was to take the corporation to court and file a lawsuit. The trainers swimming with the killer whales and engaging in physical activities in the water, without a barrier, was a major issue and could lead to many deaths. The rule should have been a “no brainer” to Sea world, considering all of the trainer deaths involving an