The tragic death last week of a trainer at SeaWorld in Florida, seems to have re-energized the long-standing debate over animal captivity. While I in no way wish to minimize the loss and devastation of this trainer’s family and friends, I can’t help but wonder just when will we stop setting these tragic events in motion?
It’s quite an unbelievable experience to see a whale first hand. Though that’s not to say we should fill the oceans with so many whale watchers that we cause a whole other set of problems for them. So I do understand the desire to create an easy viewing option for the public by way of aquariums and such. But when you see, or even think of these massive creatures on their home turf, turf that’s equally massive, how can one not feel sick when you see them held in the virtual equivalent of a bathtub? A little tank to swim around and around and around, forever. Who wouldn’t go crazy? A number of experts are saying that is exactly what has happened to this poor whale.
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Yet now we’re in this situation, he and others are in captivity, however wrong I believe that to be. But the solution is not so easy. Perhaps it will just be the least bad of a bunch of bad alternatives now. For if released, how does a whale survive that has spent almost his entire life in captivity? One that has been subjected to such an unnatural life?
Perhaps the best idea I’ve heard so far, was that of marine mammal scientist Naomi Rose who suggested Tilikum, “be released in an open ocean sea-pen the size of a football field. He could be trained to adjust to going out into the open ocean to exercise and get more choices and then maybe his stress would be reduced…If they keep him in isolation the way they do, they keep him in that small tank that he’s in, this is going to happen again.” Whose fault will it be then?
