Back to hell for a former trainer John Hargrove, ex-trainer, returns to Marineland (France), 7 years after his resignation. The Organisation One Voice contacted him in order to draw attention on one particular killer whale’s health: Inouk, a male born 23rd February 1999. At only twenty years old, Inouk should be in the prime of his life. He is NOT. The young male shows an auto mutilating behaviour. One only has to look at Inouk’s non-existing teeth. All captive orcas…
WHALE JAIL 10 orcas (one orca disapeared mid-February and is feared dead) and 87 belugas are still held in horrible conditions in the “Whale Jail” before being exported to China. According to the law only established dolphinariums and aquariums in Russia could get permits to capture the animals to be used in their facilities for educational and cultural purposes. Sale and export of animals is prohibited. Climatic conditions in the bay of Primorsky Krai have raised a public outrage which…
Samantha Berg worked as an Animal Trainer for SeaWorld of Florida from February of 1990 until August of 1993. Berg worked alongside SeaWorld’s beluga whales as well as the killer whales of Shamu Stadium. Berg now works as a licensed Acupuncturist at the Alaska Center of Acupuncture and is a member of Voice of the Orcas, a group of former SeaWorld trainers who have be banded together to reveal the truth behind SeaWorld, one of the most popular marine mammal…
As a child, John Hargrove visited SeaWorld Orlando at the age of 6 and fell in love with these majestic orcas. He even wrote letters to SW. As a young man, he gets closer to the tanks and starts talking with trainers. His dedication eventually pays off as a position opens in SW while he’s still studying at college. J. Hargrove has spent a total of 14 years among the 20 orcas of SW and Marineland (France). His dream collapsed…
Jeffrey Ventre majored in biology and rose to trainer stardom in Shamu Stadium. He is fired in 1995, after 4 years as an employee, because he had become critical of the industry. He is now a medical doctor and a cetacean advocate, part of the group Voice of the Orcas.