Inside The Tanks (Full Documentary)

Over the decade, marine captivity has been one of the most profitable industries in the tourism sector, three million people around the world have come to see these animals jump and play, so in recent years it has come to the fore. light a much darker side of the industry and, although many of the marine parks are thousands of kilometers away. Europe still has over 30 dolphin areas and some are closer than you think. My name is Johnny Muir and I'm flying to the south east of France less than two hours from London, Gatwick, Marineland, man. I want to see for myself exactly what happens in this park, you know, I just wanted to be a piece of propaganda.

I want everyone to have their challenge to have their today in the matter and I think that's the only way we can move forward. I want to find out what life is like for these animals, they will not be released, they will be helped to help what happens behind the scenes. I'm right, well, now she's playing for it, she's playing for an artificial simulation and we. I like to see the world's decisions and the breeding of orcas in marine and terrestrial places that they feed now, so we are talking to them about why, to begin with, they would welcome the aunt, a piece of paradise on the Riviera French, famous for its fantasy. superyachts the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean and its beautiful old town with around 1.3 million tourists visiting per year on television also claims the largest marine park in Europe and the only French theme park to have orchids.

I have to say the first thing. First of all, I was very surprised that France even had dolphins and orchids in captivity. You know, I thought they were a country that was similar in the perspective of captivity for these types of animals and marine animals, as we are in the United Kingdom. I understand that there are two sides to every story, so you know, some people say it's an educational experience while others think it's degrading to animals, we'll think about that, but I want to see both sides of the story, so I hope know them. Join the guys from marine land to hear their opinion and also the world famous marine biologist dr.

Ingrid Visser, but first I'm meeting with the Born Free Foundation, who together with Ingrid have been looking at marine parks across Europe to make sure they comply with a law called the EU claims directive. What kind of things have you been seeing so far in Europe? We have seen a lot of typical behaviors in almost every facility, which would include chewing on a concrete log, rocking up and down, burping, we have seen a lot of regurgitation of their food and why they do this. Do you think what is the main reason? One word, boredom and how can you tell there is nothing stimulating for them to do other than the feeding session and training. boredom but it's the same training they've been doing for five ten twenty years and there's nothing in the tank just the concrete wall what's the oval solution because they can't just be thrown into the wild surely there are of course obvious solutions For this, the quickest, easiest and most realistic thing is to put an end to the breeding of cetaceans in captivity.

Even if that were implemented, let's say next year the industry would have an hour and 40 years to continue exhibiting the new generation of animals it has and then in the meantime, we could see coastal sanctuaries, so listening to Born Free today was a license and it was great to hear your opinion, but I still want to hear from Maria and we haven't heard from her yet. I sent them an email. I've been calling them for the past few weeks and have gotten absolutely nothing, so if I don't get anything after this email, I guess I'll have to go in and see if we can talk to them. face to face and see if we can get that interview there and I'm going to send this email to bed and hope we get a response today morning.

I want to see the sea land for myself and see things purely through the eyes. Tori's Sea Land is home to almost 40 different species, including sea lions, polar bears, walkers and dolphins, and with so many different sea animals, you'd really expect there to be a few more visited. I have a tourist, obviously, it's hard to tell without the The show starts here, but without any media, where any of the Sherrods, if you want, are reduced to a giant pool and I've been sitting here for about ten minutes or so and These guys, these dolphins, have been going around and around. and maybe it's just a form of exercise, but I find it kind of funny that the sea is literally just a stone's throw away, and they're going around and around and around in this pool as much as I'm trying. to stay neutral.

I can't help but think that the dolphin looked completely bored, but I don't want to rush to judgment so early in the day, so I decided to come back later, which gives me some peace of mind. It's time to see the sea spear for the orcas who are about to perform in the first show of the day. Wow, and here's the orca tank, to be honest, on first inspection, it looks big, it looks huge or I haven't seen anything from your cassette and that the shows are about to start and looking at our there's one there, I mean , they have several pools here and I've certainly never seen a tank this big in person and with the backdrop and Scott has the Alps there it all looks quite beautiful. on the Sun, I guess you could look deeper, the thing is on the big screen, you know, you feel like you're learning something, since they have so much data that's happening up there and how we're preserving the planet, how we're helping. flea season makes you feel like this is so right, all on purpose here for a good reason and that's why I want to know if it helps.

I mean, it's clear that trainers have an undeniable God with these animals. I can almost love them you can see that but you have to wonder if they love them that much and it's really bad for the animals they love but when they back out you can't blame people for having fun here because it seems so good it feels like it's polite , it seems that it is only one reason, that is the GUP. You know, people clap and laugh and learn, so I like it, that's the question, the absence of the spectacle, although again the atmosphere is completely. different, the same animals that were jumping and tumbling in the air now seemed lifeless on board, but it's seeing how different the dolphins are during the morning Catholic show and starting to get a clearer picture again in the performance, There are all smiles that you can't. help that smile again and then I'm African American with everyone else's smiles.

I can't tell you why it's just allowing the doulton not to want to sleep. We have been experts in telling laughter. Another thing I can do. I see why people go back to the educational walls of the parties to see the educational experience, but I can't help but feel that these animals may be depressed, they only seem to come to life during their shows and it seems to me that behind the scenes there is a lot. more that meets further afield, so I set up a talk with former marine laboratory supervisor John Wall, I went to see and we were in California as a senior trainer to basically run and take over the orca program in France because they wanted the zero product that they wanted. swam with their orcas, they had never had trainers in the water with those, well you know how to do it, so myself and another SeaWorld trainer from another park we visited, took over the program and we certainly had our fair share of aggressions.

I personally had major assaults in aquatic work and the other SeaWorld trainer had 25-30 people talk to me, John, about the way animals are treated at Marine Laden. I mean, I love it a lot too, since we went into this with the purest intentions we were kids we didn't know any better when I went to do it I started in '93 I quit in 2012 I had no reason to believe that these would live anything less than a perfect existence It wasn't until I was in my career and in my career for years before you started to see things and realize that we certainly started to separate the calves from their mothers and you see the way that the mothers and the calves react to trauma. , all the drugs, the premature death, I mean, all those wells are soaked.

Taking so much medication is unbelievable, so you think all these animals in Marine Lines would have to be drugged, really drugged, so what is the future as a result of this kind of public pressure? What is the future for species like marine land? I know, I think they're kidding themselves into thinking that they're going to continue to have orcas in captivity if people are going to accept that you know that increasing public pressure on them will do exactly the same thing to them that happened to SeaWorld. that if SeaWorld sees that a multi-billion dollar corporation can't handle the pressure and the magnitude of the pressure that was being put on them, Marineland and Eve certainly won't be able to handle that because they are nothing compared to SeaWorld in the United States in terms of size or money or resources and since they want to try it they want to go more they want to try to play the game good luck weather machine Mian it is clear that the debate around these animals in captivity is almost warlike but Today I really want to know some data on the subject, so I will spend time with Dr.

Ingrid Visser while conducting her research in the park, so I'm looking for things that show the problems and one of the classic ones is what is called stereotypies and they are abnormal repetitive behaviors that for us have no obvious external function . I've seen concrete chewed. I've seen them shake their heads. I've seen them swim in patterns. I've seen them do all kinds of repetitive behaviors and that's the kind of thing I'm documenting, but I'm also looking for self-mutilation where they repeatedly hide in one place or another and end up harming themselves and I'm also looking for the teeth where Justice is getting interesting the conversation stops the terrestrial marine representative wants to know exactly what Ingrid is filming and why she is here, I was very interested and in light of the interrogation, ingrid wants to start her investigation as quickly as possible, but before starting, I am interested know how you handle resistance to what you believe, because there is always that thin one. line as well as the one between you sounding like your excuse to make a crazy accident that you know about for the general public and also being someone who is actually informing them about something real and realistic and that they can relate to and you know, yeah, so how do you fight a battle, you know, what I always do is present the facts, yes, and then the facts speak for themselves, so as a scientist, if you can present your face, then it is logical to take the next step and move on, well that's not really what we should be looking at this ball playing behavior, it looks cute, but that's not natural.

How many dolphins have you ever seen in the wild? And some

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playing with a ball. Take a look at the end of the grandstand at the end of the. Advice, look, look at the wound, yes, yes, right at the top, yes, up and down, and what day is that when he self-mutilated and even though he's actually bleeding, you can see it naturally? These dolphins have injuries like this in the wild. I'm sure they get injured in the wild and I'm sure they get grades in the wild, but the fact of the matter is that this is not natural here, so whatever happens because they are here is not natural, you know what happens if Look at these concrete walls, there's nothing for these animals to look at, which is interesting because the sea lions seem to have and still seem to have more enrichment.

I know they are on the surface. Thank you. Yes. That's for you to look at. Well, okay, animals, so why don't they put things like rocks in there? Hello, because they can't keep it clean easily. This is a dolphin, a different dolphin again and it has more injuries. And this one that you once looked at on the list, let's go to the head. Outside you'll see a dark line on the side, it's like almost where his cheeks would be. Can you see that dark line? There you'll see one let's go out now, look at that dark line.

Yes, that's because he is tilting his head unnaturally. like this all the time, which is multiple, yes, well, it's like a fold because of the gaze, the lifting, the fear on the surface all the time, the observations that Ingrid is making to us so easy for an untrained eye to miss , but judging from what she says, there are also strong indications of distress within captivity and it seems that in the English size things are just as distressing for the Orca. What does it do to you? Something in the race. This makes me feel bad. It makes me sick that humanity can do this to these incredible people. intelligent animals and they think it's okay to sit there and clap and laugh and that's very degrading to the animals, they have no choice, I mean the audience applauding and things that are not them, you know, it's not because of them that these orchids are here, that's because the park is the ocker here because of the people from the tourist point of view, if they came here yes, they would see this tank and I think you know that it is a decent size, it is not taken into consideration that always a sizepotential breeding male even in the world community.

Yes, it is, but not here. He wouldn't let his mother be a potential sperm donor. Yes, and you hear stories of inbreeding in captivity and what happens in the wild. At least one generation must do it. Does it happen in playback like it happened here? I'm sure you liked it, so look here, this baby has a rape mark. When you see animals fighting, all the grading marks are located around the head area because they are facing the front, which is underneath. That's just cubs, although this may be the case, I can't help but feel that if this Orca were being attacked she would surely try to move her head out of the way first and as a result the other P orcas would grab her body.

But if the comments that Ingrid made about Mayor Lukas' announcement are key that I would like to address with John next, we notice in the photos that his teeth are not still or fallen out, we know that they are worn down, what is the result? probing things with his teeth well so that it doesn't happen again, you know where he's been gnawing and self-mutilating his snot, it's not Newt's euphoria, no, it could be, if you want to consider it negative, you can consider it a sign of boredom if you want, but if you want, orcas died in the wild from dental problems, aha, they have big dental problems because don't forget that these guys have bones crushed all day and they break their teeth very often and die from mm incredibly, John was more or less.

I just repeated word for word what Ingrid had previously predicted she would say on the subject. I'm intrigued to see what he also has to say about another topic he has to do with his teeth, it's things like those drill marks, oh no, no, we drilled them. and instead of filling them we choose to simply keep them washed because if we fill it like this we are not going to do it in the conditions of the antiseptic conditions that would be feasible in a land that we cannot. Do this kind of thing with the orca tooth so that an orca tooth that is open once stays open and is rinsed daily considering the world's decision to ban alteration breeding in 2016.

I thought that people like sea land they would be pressured to continue suit, but judging from something I saw while I was in the park, it seems that may not be the case that we saw the last time we were here again, it was managed to line up and the perpetrator was face up and what? what is this preparation? Because is it artificial information that did not exist? There is a sequel to training for artificial insemination, we don't really fix things but you have to make a lot of progress, but you do it regularly. I can finish here. right, yes, she is trained for it, she is trained for artificial insemination, so is there any plan in the near future or is there any plan to breed from her?

None, we don't have anything planned, no, so you don't intend to this population of Walker that you. I have here to grow, I would like you to, but there is a definite tendency to slow down this type of thing and our stone comes from scratch, so that is what SeaWorld donates to this company, something, yes, we still are. We're still talking about we're still talking to them about why they would do this to begin with if they show you in the back studying for dinner. I've set up in the back there, SeaWorld, I see well, they live as they want. believe what they believe, but I would really like to see the reasoning behind all of this to find out why it really happened.

I know they have twenty-something whales, so it will be years before their wild population disappears. We have four, we are in a slightly different situation than them. Do you think there will ever be a future here where you can move away from the theater and music type of thing and have it more of an act? You're making me basically explain the methods behind it. Do you think there's ever a chance that that's the direction you guys would go? I think the actual facilities themselves would have to be so spectacular for there to be a reason. to come and see because there still has to be some kind of visitor attraction and let's be very honest, that's why we are here to attract visitors to attract visitors there would have to be a fantastic installation that would attract if there wasn't the spectacle of the animals themselves they will attract, but I'm sure we're going to get to a situation where all the pools and their tunnels there will be different areas that you can visit, there will be little coves, there will be water currents, it will be me.

I am sure that we are moving towards modern facilities that are increasingly more natural. I'm sure we're going to go that way. I'm sure we're going to naturally move away from everything we're doing now simply because everyone has seen it. That's how it will be and it would be economically devastating to continue doing the same thing when the public asks for new things in a permanent time after four days at Marineland. I leave with mixed emotions. I have no doubt about the staff that works. with these amazing animals I love them so much, but I also can't help but feel that people behind the scenes watching these animals is nothing more than a way to line their pockets and it's a far cry from seeing that these animals, regardless of the weather, are licked.

Whether or not it is silent suffering in what can only be described as a modern marine circus, but what is reassuring for me is that I have realized that the prospect that marine biologists' organizations and, hope

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y, marine parks work together to create the best future for these Animals are not a million miles away and one day I am sure you will only be able to see them where they truly belong to you.