SeaWorld park to redesign controversial whale tank

[Angel]

donno bout that

Well...you'd have a cage at least...



...if you can call it that....

Okay, go for this big boy:

[Seshmeister]

I swam with dolphins once in Key Largo.

Chose the place because they said the dolphins were free to leave any time as the tank opened out into the sea but in hindsight I'm not so sure...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Okay, go for this big boy:

these were part of the draw to utila, we missed ideal conditions both times, but we will someday

[Angel]

Right on! My brother had an encounter with a Beluga off Nova Scotia that was really cool. Unfortunately, that was before he had this camera equipment.

Ocean critters will always hold a special place in my heart. <3

[ZahZoo]

I swam with dolphins once in Key Largo.

Chose the place because they said the dolphins were free to leave any time as the tank opened out into the sea but in hindsight I'm not so sure...

Did the same this last March in Cozumel... fun and interesting but I didn't feel right about it...

The trainer we worked with was an older woman who said she'd been working with captive dolphins about 25 years. They originally bought their stock from Japanese dealers who most likely farmed juveniles from their massive dolphin roundups/slaughters... they are then trained/domesticated to work with humans and sold on the open market. Once they are domesticated and separated from their family pods... few would survive in the wild and may even be killed by competing pods who rarely accept strangers into the pod.

[Seshmeister]

Well the Japanese don't have a great reputation for sea mammal welfare.

[vandeleur]

We had a dolphin off our coast couple of years ago but it moved on after divers kept wanking it off

[VetteLS5]

donno bout that

Her name is Florence

[VetteLS5]

We had a dolphin off our coast couple of years ago but it moved on after divers kept wanking it off

PB, have you been to the UK recently?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

PB, have you been to the UK recently?

nope, that dolphin's name was floyd

[VetteLS5]

nope, that dolphin's name was floyd

[PETE'S BROTHER]

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[vandeleur]

There is a toss a fish gag in there ......... Yeah it's not a fish

[PETE'S BROTHER]

speakin' of tossin' a fish.. today is my last day at my current work location.

[Angel]

speakin' of tossin' a fish.. today is my last day at my current work location.

Mine is next week. I love my job, but alas it was a summer student position...

[ZahZoo]

nope, that dolphin's name was floyd

He has quite a reputation...

[twonabomber]

That girl is way too big to be wearing a bikini.

[VetteLS5]

That girl is way too big to be wearing a bikini.

Dolphins like 'em that way.

[twonabomber]

Maybe he thought she was a whale!

[VetteLS5]

Maybe he thought she was a whale!

Floyd's a Chubby-Chaser.