Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
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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. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act.
In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld.
Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take-toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought.
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John Hargrove. (2015). Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
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"A story of both dread and wonderment... books such as this have the ability to shine a light into the inner workings of corporate greed and redirect efforts from selling tickets to preserving, nurturing and enhancing the orcas' lives."
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A former SeaWorld killer whale trainer dispenses serious allegations against the company and the industry at large. In Hargrove's unnerving opening sequence, he writes of being antagonistically nudged into the center of a performance pool by an aggressive, 6,000-pound orca. It is with this same unique amalgam of "dread and wonderment" that Hargrove characterizes both his longtime, high-ranking professional relationship with orca whales and his astonishment at how broken the performance animal arena has become-particularly at SeaWorld. He writes of a lifelong affinity for whales, an adoration that began as a boy on his annual trips to SeaWorld in Orlando and continued with an apprenticeship in Texas and, ultimately, years spent as a senior instructor at SeaWorld San Antonio and in France. Though his appreciation for and understanding of the species are abundantly clear, the author addresses the inherent dangers these oversized mammals can pose to even seasoned instructors while calling out SeaWorld's misdeeds and cruel methods employed to obtain, control and artificially breed their stable of whales. The public performances can be treacherous, he writes, and leave little margin for error since the whales, while fully trained, can still exhibit aggressive behavior and attack without warning, as chronicled in the lethal assault and corporate obfuscation case seen in the independent documentary Blackfish (2013). Hargrove divulges some of the lesser-known, more insidious facts about marine parks: the ways whales are artificially impregnated, how boredom can become their undoing, and that these virtual "prisoners in the park" are subjected to secretive food-deprivation tactics to ensure that they understand "that it is best to cooperate." Hargrove believes the basis of SeaWorld's bottom-line corporate strategy was to treat the whales as a "company asset on the ledgers" and "a matter for spreadsheets." The author left the industry in 2012 after an "intellectual conversion" in which he realized the lives of trained whales were a living hell. A shocking, aggressively written marine park expose.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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How would you cope if you felt that your life work contributed to a cause in which you no longer believed? Former killer-whale trainer Hargrove, featured in the documentary Blackfish, has concluded that confinement of killer whales in what are to them small pools and using them for spectacular entertainment stresses them, making them depressed and abnormally dangerous. He also now believes that SeaWorld is just a greedy corporation exploiting animals and using its environmental message as a marketing cover. He recounts landing his dream job with SeaWorld and enjoying his years working with marine animals. As he progressed to senior orca trainer, however, he clashed with management over poorly maintained facilities, unreasonable performance demands on whales, and scapegoating trainers for tragic accidents. Hargrove, with coauthor Chua-Eoan, blends natural history and corporate indictment into an emotional story about a man changing sides in the argument over human domination of the animal world. Recommended for animals-rights collections in public libraries.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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