NO AUDIO: Newly-released video from an incident at SeaWorld San Diego in 2006 shows the killer whale Kasatka grabbing a trainer's foot and pulling him underwater.
YES! All the cases of people falling I to enclosures and the animal being shot, people trying to have exotic animals and being attacked, and things like this! The animal didn't ask for this, it's an animal. You don't get to steal it and then be upset it didn't want to be there
Yeah but it’s not the trainers fault, they were taught lies about their job or otherwise they wouldn’t work there and this incident happened because SeaWorld decided to separate the whale from her young baby
@@paimonspie8913they weren’t taught lies. It’s common sense not to take animals from the wild and keep them in essentially a giant bathtub, when they belong in the ocean. These trainers know about animals. They aren’t stupid. They know what they’re doing when they take jobs like this. Everyone knows how animals are treated in places like this and if you don’t in this day and age then you’re just ignorant. This is 100% on the trainer as well. People have no morals and will do whatever to make the cash flow keep coming.
She dominated him. They are EXTREMELY intelligent creatures. They should be left in the wild or a sanctuary where they can have liberty and not forced to perform like a circus
This dude was definitely smart about the entire situation. He knew if he had tried to swim off too early or panicked that he would've been dragged right back under. Kudos to him for keeping calm and reading the situation well enough to survive
You guys know these orcas are abused right? Seaworld and places who have orcas in large tanks are deserving of whatever those orcas do those people abuse these poor animals who need to be swimming in the open ocean
They don't tell you the other part to this, but you can look it up. Kasatka attacked as a result of punishment because she wasn't training the way they wanted. She was only interested in momming her new baby, and so they decided to separate her and her baby. During this performance she heard her baby crying out from a back pool, so she attacked out of frustration. They shipped her baby away after this.
@@southernsweettea3478 Well obviously he knew, but there’s nothing he could do about it. He doesn’t run the show, he merely trains the animals and makes sure they’re in good shape etc. And before you say “He should’ve resigned” there will always be someone to take his place, and eventually there will be someone who won’t give a damn about the animals whatsoever. He obviously did as a similar thing like this happened before in the past.
@@southernsweettea3478 That's like blaming the waitress for her knowing the chef microwaved your food to warm it up instead of cooking it the correct way. Don't yell at her for it, she had nothing to do with your microwaved pasta. She was doing her job and had no say in what higher ups do.
Being underwater that long would drown the average person..... Throwing in the stress and fear adds another huge factor.... Amazing he survived that... His lungs are HOF
Its not that easy they will die in the wild unfortunately of how dependent they are on humans. There life was determined the minute they were captured.
@@katie7513 ok katie lets just imprison them, huh we need money to help fund this project, I know! lets turn this into an attraction and raise the funds to keep them out of the wild.
I thought that most people DID know that these animals are meant to be free, especially recently with all the media/documentaries/incidents in the last 10-20 yrs. Not to mention common sense. Also, the movie Free Willy came out in what, 1993. Besides being a fun, cheesy kids movie it was also quasi-educational, showing how Orcas are NOT meant to be kept in captivity, how it disturbs them, warps their fin etc.
The calmness of that trainer will always be so impressive to me. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to keep that kind of composure and might've drowned. He's very lucky to be alive.
That’s a warning shot if there’s ever been one. Katsaka could have ripped his foot off instantly. The fact that she did not even lacerate his skin shows she was not biting him, just holding on to him as gently as she could. Considering their bite force, this in itself shows incredible restraint, gentleness, caution from the Orca, and undeniably shows she went out of her way not to hurt him. She also knew to bring him back up to breathe without waiting too long. Even at the end, as he gets away, she gently turns around and moves slowly. Had she wanted to, she could have charged and gotten to him in less than 2 seconds. She allowed him to swim away. Katsaka standing still after letting go, letting him pet her shows she enjoys contact with her trainer, has a bond with him, and was not trying to hurt him. She simply made a show of force, caused by the frustration and pain she was feeling after being separated from her offspring. Really no different than a child/adolescent yelling or acting out when they feel their caregivers are not listening to them & instead emotionally affecting them. Only in this case, Katsaka really is the top dog that will always win the fight, if pushed to that point.
To be honest if I was locked up for 30 years inside a little cell by a bunch of jerks but there was this one guy that was always kind to me that happened to come to me right as I was going to go crazy and attack, I'd probably give him mercy too. If it was a random trainer they would have died though
So many emotions here. Firstly, I'm so happy he survived. That was absolutely terrifying, but he held his wits and knew that he needed to try to stay calm AND that her need her to be calm, too. Second, I read that this orca mom was separated from her baby which is just sick! I'm going to leave it at that. Third, no one blames the orca. Period. I also don't blame the trainer, either. By the way he's interacting with her, her obviously cares for her quite a bit. He wanted to work with her for the right reasons, his love for this animal. Fourth, I would love nothing more than to have these animals freed, but it's not that simple. Orcas are mammals and as such, don't do things solely by instinct, but largely by teaching and instructing. Some of the orcas were taken from the wild, but others were born in captivity. The ONLY way to release them would be to also teach them how to hunt. If an orca doesn't know how to hunt, it cannot eat and will die a slow, painful death through starvation. There's also teaching them about territory and migration (in the case of transient orcas). They need you know how to navigate the waters, how to avoid being beached or stranded, and to understand that boats and a great number of other things are dangerous. They also need you understand that humans they encounter in the wild are NOT the same humans that held them captive. An orca has never attacked a person in the wild, but releasing a captive creature into the wild that has been habituated with the presence of people is something they also need to be taught about. In order to release these animals, there needs you be a reintroduction program to teach the beautiful creatures how to survive on their own in the wild. To do anything else would be amazingly reckless as well as careless. That, or make a reserve where they can have plenty of natural space to live, but where they can also be monitored and fed until they can become familiar enough with the natural outdoors to be able to be let go.
@@lunao8816 he simply did nothing wrong except do his job. The orca was frustrated with being in captivity in SeaWorld. It's not the guys fault. Stop wishing something that isn't his fault.
Being calm enabled him to stay under water without filling his lungs full of water. That’s a pretty big factor. I love seeing killer whales in pools instead of a vast ocean.
The wetsuit they used to wear is ridiculously resilient, it still managed to tear it off but the wetsuit is what prevented it from drawing blooding, the trainer did suffer multiple fractures in his foot from the bite.
And keep in mind that they do not attack humans in the wild. There’s no documented case of it ever happening. They’re smart. This animal knew what it was doing.
@@o.1660 The surfer claimed he was briefly bitten by animal with "horizontal tail" while swimming amidst seals. He was immediately let go with no further bites and swam to land but needed stitches. This was in the 70s, off Big Sur. If true, one non-fatal case in all of human history is an amazing record for an animal that eats Great Whites (even seals have killed people). In fact, there have been cases when Orcas saved people from sharks when their ship sank off the Australian coast.
Amazing? He is a partner in crime, keeping orcas torturely captive for the sake of entertainment and greed, I hope he had learned from that lesson and became an advocate against the evil sea worlds
Lori williams. It is funny hardley anyone would find profiting of of slavery even to this day heartbreaking but would for animals. Oh wait that happened a long time right?
This man in particular was a trained diver before he started as a trainer, so his experience & understanding of how to hold his breath while being pulled close to the bottom of a tank that deep, at that speed & for that long is what saved his life
@@keirawalton2578 Harsh but true. I'm VERY anti animal abuse and exploitation. That includes stealing Orca's from their families and natural habitat and sticking them in an aquatic circus.
I would say the whales mercy saved his life. No one gives any credit to the whale for letting the trainer go. He didn’t even inflict any injuries or anything like that. He was just playing around.
@@macysondheim he has a broken foot and ankle. Notice how when he tried to run he fell as soon as he came down on that broken foot. He probably didn't even know his foot was broken until after
@@macysondheim but the whale once he realized the trainer was leaving went after him, if the whale had noticed he was leaving a minute early, he might not have been so lucky
The scariest part is that the orca, without letting him go, brought him back to the surface just in time ...which means he was literally "playing" with his prey...like they do with turtles and rays in the wild
She absolutely did, and maybe have seen it as a game. He may have been the trainer who always held his breath the longest, and today she wanted to test how long he could.
To be fair, the trainers are probably the only people that work there that actually love those Orcas. They're not the ones buying and selling animals like slaves.
This wouldn't happen if they didn't force him to do tricks against his will. The Orca let this man live. He held him up at the end so guy could breathe. He didn't have any intentions of killing him... Poor whale is plain sick of their abuse. Much goes on behind the scenes with this whale. They punish him, they put him in a pool that he can't move around in, like us being in a bathtub. They withhold food, hit him, & wayyyy more..don't let these trainers fool you they just do it for the money not for the love of animals.
Context: they separated her (Kasatka) from her baby, and she heard the baby's vocals. Orcas have strong social bonds and emotions, and are extremely intelligent. In the wild, Orcas are very friendly towards people. 0 fatal attacks recorded, and there has even been instances where Orcas saved drowning boaters or feed fish to divers.
@@RobertGi I'm assuming you're saying you know at least 3 people that have died from orca attacks, I'm also assuming you don't mean 3 people you knew personally (if you're saying you did, then I call BS). But what was said is 100% correct, there have been no verified fatalities involving orcas in the wild. The only fatal attacks have occurred in captivity because DUH
The man survived because the whale decided he will survive. No other reason. Despite being imprisoned, they show more empathy than the humans involved in their imprisonment. Shame on anyone who still supports these places.
just stupid to hate the TRAINERS and use as reasoning becasue THEY keeping them captive. yeah of course the trainer keep them captive since we all know that the trainers are the one who own the whole park xD just stupid to acutally believe it and down right evil to wish them death
Nobody wishes the trainers death. Even the whale didn't wish him death or she would have killed him. Animals should not be imprisoned. This is what happens when they are.
No, the whale was goofing off...haven't you ever joked around with your friends and played around? These are apex predators. If this was anything other than playing a little joke on his human buddy, that man would have been dead in 5 seconds. He would have been in a hundred dismembered pieces in another 60 seconds. #whalesjustwannahavefun
Henz Sol mate do your research. These whales were drugged, forced to perform and depressed. The whale wasn’t goofing off, they want to be set free or not forced to perform everyday for nothing.
Eevee Vulpix I mean if you want to encourage depressed and suicidal animals then go ahead, but it’ll just show how much of a downgrade of a human being you are
Who else can’t breath watching this?! This poor guy really loved the orcas and learned too late that what he was doing was wrong. He’s out there educating people about why these orcas need to be left alone. What an amazing survivor.
In fact another former trainer says this guy pete punish the whales when they didn't do a good show..and also.he keeps working that place for many years
This was a show of dominance. The whale was basically saying, "You can put me in a tank and I'll do your tricks, but I'm in charge here, not you. NEVER you."
that whale showed a ton of mercy, pun intended. given the situation, she could have annihilated that trainer in a nanosecond, captive animals do get fed up. he's lucky she wasn't fed up enough to do him in, but she did show him who's really in charge, and the real boss of the water. not those ra-ra fake cheerleaders in wetsuits making a livings off this.
@@catherinemarie7058 10 months late but its Mercy. Mercy is a type of pods dolphins are in. There are 4 and killer whales are dolphin called orcas. The biggest dolphins.
if you've watched the movie blackfish, then you know it wasn't the trainers' faults. They weren't told any details about the attacks that the whales had committed against trainers; most of the time they were actually told the trainer who had gotten attack was at fault, and that the whales were NOT aggressive or deadly. So shut up. The trainers loved the animals.
Thats tilikum, thats a dude whale. Legend whale. Most of the seaworld whales today are decendants of him. Hes been apart of 4 human deaths. Watch the documentary BlackFish
Kasatka heard her daughter, Kalia, crying for her in a nearby tank during the show. She was frustrated at being separated from her crying daughter. The trainers said Kalia had been screaming just before Kasatka went nuts.
I went there in the early 90s, being face to face with an orca at the big glass window as a 4 year old. Will never forget it. But it took me a while to realise the abuse these animals endured.
If the orca wanted to he could of ripped of his leg in a heartbeat. Good thing the trainer is a diver, so that helped him to hold his breath for awhile
A large marine mammal that only has a pool to swim in when it's used to the ocean, pumped with drugs to keep it docile, separated from its family, forced to play tricks for another species' entertainment. Gee, I wonder what could go wrong. You'd eventually be at the end of your rope too if someone did that too you.
Mp Pow wow naw a whale can hold its breath wayyyy longer lmao look it up he brung him back up cause he knew he needed to breath not because the whale who lives in water was drowning 🤔🤦♂️😂😂😂
Also I looked it up, and the reason she did that to him is because she was upset because she could hear her baby making noise from a distance (she had be separated from her) and couldn't get to her and this was her way of dealing with her stress. She could of killed him if she wanted to, she let him back up because these animals are way more forgiving than they should be.
We are so arrogant as a species that we think we can keep a 12500lb whale in a swimming pool and not expect something like this to happen, The whale was absolutely right to behave like this and any animal would under the same circumstances. To be fair the reaction of the whale was rather understated and controlled considering it’s circumstances.
@Christina Smith i totally appreciate the sentiment. But hed have to have a katana. A smallish knife even 6 or 8 inches you only anger it. Wouldn't even make it through the fat layer.
Good they keep those whales in prisons and make them perform circus tricks for our amusement that whale shoulda taken his leg off that trainer doesn’t give af about the whale obviously
Apparently this happenes not once but multiple times through training so assuming by the calm demeanor he had and how quickly he assessed the situation I can say this is probably not his first time
@@jamesoden1223 If it wasn't his first time, then had he drowned it would have been completely on him. One incident is all it should take to realize that your life comes before any job.
He wasn't out of it, he was catching his breath of air because he didn't know when he would go back under. He also tried stroking the orca to let him go because he thought the bond him and the orca had would make it stop
I think it’s even more sad that the whales are so emotionally, and socially wrecked. They were taken from their pods in the wild, then put into tiny tanks they have never been in before, and with other orcas they are not friends with, and I mean like they are orcas that are from different cultures and they speak different languages so they fight, then they were forced to jump for the pleasure of humans, and if they didn’t they were deprived of food, then they are frustrated and can’t do anything about it, so attacked the humans. Then sea world says that they take good care of them?!?!? And the orcas die young so sea world says that they only live to 25-30 years but they really live to be 80-100 for females and males live 50-70. And sea world also says that their fins flop over as they get older but really it means that they are unhealthy, and also in the wild they only have fins that fall over less than 1% of the time. I’m sorry for the orcas they don’t deserve that kind of treatment and they suffer a lot. I am never going to sea world again.
An Orcha is not an ordinary fish. It is highly intelligent and knows about it's surroundings. He knows that he's in captivity and being played with like a toy.
saw the documentary black fish with my kids yesterday. its a very informative documentary. my 10 year old kid said he would never go to seaworld. thats how powerful the movie is.
I love Blackfish! It breaks my heart. I went to Seaworld back in the 70's when I was little and it breaks my heart to know what really goes on there...😓
I like the film but I think it could've been a little edgier and just a bit more informative--and I'm not saying this because I want sick thrills; I consider myself an empathic person and actually felt really bad for both trainers and orcas based on what I saw. I just think, to truly bring home the gravity of the situation, the film shouldn't shy away from the serious content. It already flirted with shocking content and then every time we saw something alarming, the camera would just stop and move on to some other image. I found it a frustrating directorial choice. The director had more footage she chose not to show, I guess to keep it family-friendly enough so that people could watch it with their kids, and because she herself is a mom, which probably colored her thinking. I think, if she's going to make a case for how dangerous it is for human beings to interact with captive orcas, she really needed to shock the public awake and not hide the footage she didn't want people to see, even if it resulted in a more mature rating. But I still think it's a powerful documentary and I'm glad it's had the cultural impact it has had to bring people to a better awareness that orcas kept in captivity are truly mistreated in ways we would consider inhumane if we did it to human beings.
Thank god he was able to hold his breath for such an incredible amount of time. Saved his own life. These animals need to be kept strictly in the wild they have multiple oceans to swim through for a reason.
This is so hard to watch... when he finally comes up for air, you can tell he’s trying to breathe as much as he can in case the whale brings him back down since he was still holding onto his foot... you can see how much fear he had by the way he swam away
You know, if the “trainers” stopped agreeing to do this then it wouldn’t happen. Trainer aren’t as responsible as owners but they hold some responsibility
Heretic Life I don’t thinks the trainers are mostly to blame. It’s the company because Seaworld is the one telling these trainers that what they are doing is fine and safe.
@@wienerschnitzelislife6070 And who doesn't want to make money from something they are trained for, handsome amount of money actually . Having said that iam against it, it's not the trainers who captured these orcas. Nor the trainers have a say these matters. You know kind of "head of the snake thing" are to blame. trainers are still part of it.
@@wienerschnitzelislife6070 people who persist in working for a company that exploits both them and the animals they care for are only hurting themselves. Commenting on that sad reality is nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps the issue is that it so directly touches on one of many problems? Do keep in mind - if many of these trainers' own statements are to be believed (eg the entirety of Hazel McBride's book) they frequently walk away from the animals they claim to care about. All the time.
These animals are basically tortured for decades and most people are just fine with that but when one animal is threatening a human it will be talked about as a sensation for decades.
Brian O believe me.. what they do to these animals are beyond sad starving them forcing them to do tricks in front of millions of people just don’t visit sea world..
Kasakta had her calf Takara taken away from her not long before the attack. She was still grieving during this show, and attacked her trainer. Her trainer Kenneth Peters had diving experience, and was able to hold his breath for quite some time. With him patting her and rubbing her, it slowly helped her calm down, then she released his foot. Kasakta is dead now, may she rest in peace.
3 people killed by one orca(that still performs as far as i know) at seaworld so far... they got under investigation for mistreating animals... and yet you call G R ignorant and stupid... people these days...
I only found out about this from the documentary blackfish. My god what a good documentary on why KillerWhales shouldn’t be in captivity and this man shows what it’s like to be built different. Look at the way he is trained in deep diving. The way he knows he’s going back under. This man has me nothing but impressed on how he responded to the situation.
This is what happens when you try to control a giant, smart, and powerful mammal with training and containing them in a fishbowl. Not the first time and won't be the last time man is reminded who is ultimately more powerful.
Imagine being able to roam the seas then be put in a small tank separated from your pack. Captivity is barely manageable with humans. Why would it work on other intelligent mammals who pay little mind to ways of man?
It’s sad because in the wild they’re incredibly friendly in the wild, but the way they’re treated in these tanks makes it so they have no where to release their anger and so they take it out on each other or on their trainers. In the wild they’ll come up to boats of whale watchers and let little kids pet them but here they become more aggressive.
I find it hilarious how people don’t expect this to happen. You’re keeping a wild killer whale in a massive tank, of course it’s going to be frustrated and end up doing something like this. 🤦🏻♀️
No matter how long or how many years you have been training with it, orcas, killer whales are wild mammals who always have their natural instincts, sea world trainers will never have a orca, killer whale under their complete control. I truly applaud the trainer in that terrifying situation who kept incredibly calm, knowing what that orca was capable of doing. These truly beautiful and magnificent mammals don’t deserve to be in sea world aquarium, enough is enough.
It's not just SeaWorld as a business. No one forced the trainers to get into a tank with an animal that can become violent or threatening whenever they see fit. No one forced the trainers to facilitate in the abuse that may contribute to events like these.
Who do you think is paying the trainers? If the trainers quit, they find new trainers, people need money. It's SeaWorld as a business and capitalism unregulated at it's worst.
Apparently many of the trainers were oblivious to their living conditions outside of the arena they trained in. With a job that cool getting to perform with orcas or makes sense they wouldn’t really question sea worlds methods. Plus many of the performers admitted to not knowing anything about whales other then what they were told by sea world. Thank you creators of blackfish for spreading awareness
@@edgarretana8377 yes its not until a few years in they get to see some of the darker aspects of how things work and internet was not huge like it is now. this is a key aspect i have issues with regarding woke and cancel culture today, judging past people by todays standards is absurd and it applies here. current trainers i have no excuse for but its possible they think better them than someone who doesn't care about the animal, who knows? With the stop of breeding and capturing it should all stop relatively soon.
These trainers loved the orcas and stated their faults in not knowing further how they were truly treated. These whales need at least the love of caring trainers while they are alone 24/7. It’s not the trainers fault or control.
This is shown in Blackfish and the thing is, the trainers love and care about the orcas. They don't have to have any qualifications or previous training to do this job, they are told a bunch of lies and then they learn for themselves how awful this is for the whales. They know that there is nothing they can do to save them so they do their job with love. This man trusted the orca with his life and continued to work with it because he cared.
Problem is it's the way there's orcas are separated, captured, held captive, trained fed a repeatative diet, made to perform then locked away again until the next performance
Talk about terrifying. Poor trainer. And that poor orca too. Probably thought he was playing. They play like this in the wild too. We really need to stop having animals in captivity like this. It’s wrong.
The orca in this video is a female and she wasn't playing, she deliberately attacked him by biting into is foot while refusing to let go and tried to drown him.
1. Don’t steal and trap orchas in tiny pools 2. Do they not have a sedative dart or any protective measures to stop this? I do they just wait it out every time? 3. Are they not teaching these people how to fight back, or have any small protective weapon on them? 4. Team must care, he had to run on his broken ankle/knee/leg to get away. Shut this place down.
Orcas can be underwater way longer than this. Her needing to take a breath was likely not the reason she surfaced. If she did need a breath she didn't have to stick around up there-she could have pulled him right back under in a blink.
Trust me that whale knows that human needs air to survive.
mike johnson yep, definitely
They're very smart babies. Damn i love orcas
Plus they have sonar and they see us. He knew what was the breaking point. I wonder how long he had planned for all this.
@@Sam-iy1nt 😂😂
Probably because the whale ALSO needs air to survive.
One thing to always remember. Don’t ever blame the wild animal for acting wild. Blame the humans who tried to play with fire and got burned.
YES! All the cases of people falling I to enclosures and the animal being shot, people trying to have exotic animals and being attacked, and things like this! The animal didn't ask for this, it's an animal. You don't get to steal it and then be upset it didn't want to be there
FACTS
One of the best comments yet👏🏼👏🏼 yelling a wild animal not to be just that is like telling fire not to be hot or water not to be wet
This should be the top comment .
Yep putting a fkng whale in a pool is criminal and everyone involved should be locked up.
It’s not nice to see someone suffering, but things like this need to happen to remind humans they can’t do whatever they want to whatever they want
We literally can though. But we definitely shouldn't.
@@YungLilBoiidumb dumb dumb
Yeah but it’s not the trainers fault, they were taught lies about their job or otherwise they wouldn’t work there and this incident happened because SeaWorld decided to separate the whale from her young baby
@@paimonspie8913they weren’t taught lies. It’s common sense not to take animals from the wild and keep them in essentially a giant bathtub, when they belong in the ocean. These trainers know about animals. They aren’t stupid. They know what they’re doing when they take jobs like this. Everyone knows how animals are treated in places like this and if you don’t in this day and age then you’re just ignorant. This is 100% on the trainer as well. People have no morals and will do whatever to make the cash flow keep coming.
No @@jennaanderson760
Now those lungs deserve an award
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Thanku
No, the orca needs the award
The award is that he survived
Well they are trained for this type of emergency and if they can't breathe then they have to try and hurt the animal as hard as possible
I don't blame the whale I would be frustrated too if I was kept in a giant bathtub my whole life
How about parrots kept in a tiny cage all throughout the world as pets?
kaylee s to us it would be giant, to them... it’s just a fishbowl.
@@aidenw207 do you think parrots belong in cages? the point was nothing that was once free belongs in a cage. was that your attempt at a witty retort?
@@motoz30 😅👏🏽
I think that was the orca they took the baby from. She was so upset about it...
She dominated him. They are EXTREMELY intelligent creatures. They should be left in the wild or a sanctuary where they can have liberty and not forced to perform like a circus
its almost like orcas shouldn’t be in tanks🤷🏽♀️🙄🤦🏽♀️
Almost? There's no question about it
He is being saracastic XD
They don't belong in tanks its ad how they are captured from their Natural habitat/homes to entertain us humans
Stop taking the comment seriously he is just being sarcastic
I’m in agony here at how a few people don’t get this comment 😖😖🤣🤣
This dude was definitely smart about the entire situation. He knew if he had tried to swim off too early or panicked that he would've been dragged right back under. Kudos to him for keeping calm and reading the situation well enough to survive
My point is no action of the guy saved him. The orca decided to let him live.
Great point. Ken Peters was also a trained scuba diver and thank God for that.
Nika Welsh he didn’t freak out because it would’ve scared the crowd
You guys know these orcas are abused right? Seaworld and places who have orcas in large tanks are deserving of whatever those orcas do those people abuse these poor animals who need to be swimming in the open ocean
The fact that people blame the trainers is pathetic. Blame the company. Also there doesn't seem to be much of a crowd here.
They don't tell you the other part to this, but you can look it up. Kasatka attacked as a result of punishment because she wasn't training the way they wanted. She was only interested in momming her new baby, and so they decided to separate her and her baby. During this performance she heard her baby crying out from a back pool, so she attacked out of frustration. They shipped her baby away after this.
The dude deserved it then..
@@southernsweettea3478It isn’t the trainer to blame, he did nothing the likes of that. However the people making the decision definitely are to blame
@@Andrea-1998 as the trainer he had to have known they took her baby. Thats BS.
@@southernsweettea3478 Well obviously he knew, but there’s nothing he could do about it. He doesn’t run the show, he merely trains the animals and makes sure they’re in good shape etc. And before you say “He should’ve resigned” there will always be someone to take his place, and eventually there will be someone who won’t give a damn about the animals whatsoever. He obviously did as a similar thing like this happened before in the past.
@@southernsweettea3478 That's like blaming the waitress for her knowing the chef microwaved your food to warm it up instead of cooking it the correct way. Don't yell at her for it, she had nothing to do with your microwaved pasta. She was doing her job and had no say in what higher ups do.
Being underwater that long would drown the average person..... Throwing in the stress and fear adds another huge factor.... Amazing he survived that... His lungs are HOF
It hurt my lungs lol
Absolument d'accord avec vous
HOF? Google is no help
he used to be a scuba diver
@@bambino9235 I'm stuck on HOF also lol
Stop visiting these places.Let them go.
Its not that easy they will die in the wild unfortunately of how dependent they are on humans. There life was determined the minute they were captured.
Parzehlli TV put them into sea pens smh
Orcas play with their food
@@katie7513 ok katie lets just imprison them, huh we need money to help fund this project, I know! lets turn this into an attraction and raise the funds to keep them out of the wild.
Alex Pena you put them into sea pens It means that they will be so large they won’t even realise. Its better than being forced to entertain humans
Most people don’t know that these animals are meant to be free and you can’t blame the animal for retaliating for being trapped.
I thought that most people DID know that these animals are meant to be free, especially recently with all the media/documentaries/incidents in the last 10-20 yrs. Not to mention common sense. Also, the movie Free Willy came out in what, 1993. Besides being a fun, cheesy kids movie it was also quasi-educational, showing how Orcas are NOT meant to be kept in captivity, how it disturbs them, warps their fin etc.
The calmness of that trainer will always be so impressive to me. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to keep that kind of composure and might've drowned. He's very lucky to be alive.
100%. I would've panicked. I'm appalled he was able to stay calm.
I am not sure if he was intentionally calm or if he was in a dazed "submit to your fate" mode like a cat with a mouse.
Knowledges is important part of our life
I bet he never risked his life again. He’s exceptionally lucky to be alive.
Blessed
That’s a warning shot if there’s ever been one. Katsaka could have ripped his foot off instantly. The fact that she did not even lacerate his skin shows she was not biting him, just holding on to him as gently as she could. Considering their bite force, this in itself shows incredible restraint, gentleness, caution from the Orca, and undeniably shows she went out of her way not to hurt him. She also knew to bring him back up to breathe without waiting too long. Even at the end, as he gets away, she gently turns around and moves slowly. Had she wanted to, she could have charged and gotten to him in less than 2 seconds. She allowed him to swim away. Katsaka standing still after letting go, letting him pet her shows she enjoys contact with her trainer, has a bond with him, and was not trying to hurt him. She simply made a show of force, caused by the frustration and pain she was feeling after being separated from her offspring. Really no different than a child/adolescent yelling or acting out when they feel their caregivers are not listening to them & instead emotionally affecting them. Only in this case, Katsaka really is the top dog that will always win the fight, if pushed to that point.
Beautifully said
The only thing you missed out was its freedoms, its return to the ocean...
perfectly said
you are so smart lol..
To be honest if I was locked up for 30 years inside a little cell by a bunch of jerks but there was this one guy that was always kind to me that happened to come to me right as I was going to go crazy and attack, I'd probably give him mercy too. If it was a random trainer they would have died though
So many emotions here. Firstly, I'm so happy he survived. That was absolutely terrifying, but he held his wits and knew that he needed to try to stay calm AND that her need her to be calm, too.
Second, I read that this orca mom was separated from her baby which is just sick! I'm going to leave it at that.
Third, no one blames the orca. Period. I also don't blame the trainer, either. By the way he's interacting with her, her obviously cares for her quite a bit. He wanted to work with her for the right reasons, his love for this animal.
Fourth, I would love nothing more than to have these animals freed, but it's not that simple. Orcas are mammals and as such, don't do things solely by instinct, but largely by teaching and instructing. Some of the orcas were taken from the wild, but others were born in captivity. The ONLY way to release them would be to also teach them how to hunt. If an orca doesn't know how to hunt, it cannot eat and will die a slow, painful death through starvation. There's also teaching them about territory and migration (in the case of transient orcas). They need you know how to navigate the waters, how to avoid being beached or stranded, and to understand that boats and a great number of other things are dangerous. They also need you understand that humans they encounter in the wild are NOT the same humans that held them captive. An orca has never attacked a person in the wild, but releasing a captive creature into the wild that has been habituated with the presence of people is something they also need to be taught about.
In order to release these animals, there needs you be a reintroduction program to teach the beautiful creatures how to survive on their own in the wild. To do anything else would be amazingly reckless as well as careless. That, or make a reserve where they can have plenty of natural space to live, but where they can also be monitored and fed until they can become familiar enough with the natural outdoors to be able to be let go.
This kind of medium sized, well redacted and consice comments tend to have far less likes that it should.
IT’S AMAZING THAT THE TRAINER SURVIVED. I WOULD HAVE DROWNED 😭😭😭😭 BUT FREE THOSE ORCAS!!!! 😩
ßiTE SiZE ßAяßiE yeah free them so they can die in the wild lol...anyways i would’ve drown too
@@ohtav
At least they have freedom in the wild Instead of having to be in a small aquarium
@@ohtav
It's almost as being in a locked room for the rest of your life doing tricks and never being able to go out and explore
@@ohtav they can actually live longer in the wild, the "facts" SeaWorld said was a lie
@@lunao8816 he simply did nothing wrong except do his job. The orca was frustrated with being in captivity in SeaWorld. It's not the guys fault. Stop wishing something that isn't his fault.
Trainer looked like he stayed calm which probably saved him.
No way. Orca let him live
Do you think that is the thing that Dawn didn’t do?
The calmness didn't save him, the Orca just let him go.
Being calm enabled him to stay under water without filling his lungs full of water.
That’s a pretty big factor.
I love seeing killer whales in pools instead of a vast ocean.
Being calm definitely helped
It's almost like these creatures shouldn't be locked up in cages for our amusement.
I was noticing that the whale didn't even draw blood on his foot, he was pretty delicate in some respects.
The wetsuit they used to wear is ridiculously resilient, it still managed to tear it off but the wetsuit is what prevented it from drawing blooding, the trainer did suffer multiple fractures in his foot from the bite.
His foot was bleeding ....
His foot was a balloon
And keep in mind that they do not attack humans in the wild. There’s no documented case of it ever happening. They’re smart. This animal knew what it was doing.
Only one case but still I completely agree with the point
@@kuperzahn4559 Only one case ? When ? Where ?
@@o.1660 The surfer claimed he was briefly bitten by animal with "horizontal tail" while swimming amidst seals. He was immediately let go with no further bites and swam to land but needed stitches. This was in the 70s, off Big Sur. If true, one non-fatal case in all of human history is an amazing record for an animal that eats Great Whites (even seals have killed people). In fact, there have been cases when Orcas saved people from sharks when their ship sank off the Australian coast.
Not true, there are a small handful of isolated cases of attacks in the wild.
Documented doesn’t mean it NEVER happened! 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
I remember this when it happened. That trainer was incredibly amazing. He’s lucky that he maintained being calm.
Amazing? He is a partner in crime, keeping orcas torturely captive for the sake of entertainment and greed, I hope he had learned from that lesson and became an advocate against the evil sea worlds
It's heartbreaking that people make profits from capture whales for Entertainment! These Mejestic Creatures Deserves to live free from evil inhumans.
Amen
It's next day off is when it dies. 😢
@gippygipmg I was curious how long it'd take for someone to turn this conversation towards slavery, for no reason.
Lori Williams - I so agree with you!
Lori williams. It is funny hardley anyone would find profiting of of slavery even to this day heartbreaking but would for animals. Oh wait that happened a long time right?
This man in particular was a trained diver before he started as a trainer, so his experience & understanding of how to hold his breath while being pulled close to the bottom of a tank that deep, at that speed & for that long is what saved his life
@@diamonddog4708 lmao
@@keirawalton2578 Harsh but true. I'm VERY anti animal abuse and exploitation. That includes stealing Orca's from their families and natural habitat and sticking them in an aquatic circus.
I would say the whales mercy saved his life. No one gives any credit to the whale for letting the trainer go. He didn’t even inflict any injuries or anything like that. He was just playing around.
@@macysondheim he has a broken foot and ankle. Notice how when he tried to run he fell as soon as he came down on that broken foot. He probably didn't even know his foot was broken until after
@@macysondheim but the whale once he realized the trainer was leaving went after him, if the whale had noticed he was leaving a minute early, he might not have been so lucky
This video should be called: Stop imprisoning these highly intelligent animals.
the orca just wanted to show whos the real boss. and then it let the poor man go. they are very smart
Exactly!
Who knows what really goes on
PewDiePies Dingleberries LMAO 😂
Then the human pulled the plug out on this Killer Whales tank to show who the real Boss is.
The man deserves it
The scariest part is that the orca, without letting him go, brought him back to the surface just in time
...which means he was literally "playing" with his prey...like they do with turtles and rays in the wild
She very likely knew what she was doing
She absolutely did, and maybe have seen it as a game. He may have been the trainer who always held his breath the longest, and today she wanted to test how long he could.
Well its they're fault putting an KILLER whale aka ORCA in a tank that they shouldn't be
Top of the food chain??
@@whateveryouwant9559 What
Title should be “Torture victim takes light revenge on torturer”
To be fair, the trainers are probably the only people that work there that actually love those Orcas. They're not the ones buying and selling animals like slaves.
I would have put in my resignation that day. ✌🏾
Ok
same
I would have stabbed the whale
This wouldn't happen if they didn't force him to do tricks against his will. The Orca let this man live. He held him up at the end so guy could breathe. He didn't have any intentions of killing him... Poor whale is plain sick of their abuse.
Much goes on behind the scenes with this whale. They punish him, they put him in a pool that he can't move around in, like us being in a bathtub. They withhold food, hit him, & wayyyy more..don't let these trainers fool you they just do it for the money not for the love of animals.
@@justinseagull3257 oh like you're going to have that equipment when he suddenly pulls you under a little stab wouldn't touch this beauty
Context: they separated her (Kasatka) from her baby, and she heard the baby's vocals. Orcas have strong social bonds and emotions, and are extremely intelligent. In the wild, Orcas are very friendly towards people. 0 fatal attacks recorded, and there has even been instances where Orcas saved drowning boaters or feed fish to divers.
Thanks for telling the ENTIRE story. She wanted her baby
Awe. 4 real . These animals need naturalized and released. Cmon now. 🥲 humans 🤮 so much to learn . Honestly we so stupid 🙄
Bro what I know at least 3 people have sided from orcas and those are only the ones I know
@@RobertGi I'm assuming you're saying you know at least 3 people that have died from orca attacks, I'm also assuming you don't mean 3 people you knew personally (if you're saying you did, then I call BS). But what was said is 100% correct, there have been no verified fatalities involving orcas in the wild. The only fatal attacks have occurred in captivity because DUH
@@RobertGi Read my comment carefully: WILD
The man survived because the whale decided he will survive. No other reason. Despite being imprisoned, they show more empathy than the humans involved in their imprisonment. Shame on anyone who still supports these places.
I realize a lot of people hate these trainers for keeping the whales captive, but I would never wish them death by one . This is terrifying.
@@milesjohnson5487 What do you mean? The whale and the trainer are both well and alive today.
If that's what it takes to stop this evil industry so be it.
They clearly love these whales. It’s the owners of the parks that are the real villains.
just stupid to hate the TRAINERS and use as reasoning becasue THEY keeping them captive.
yeah of course the trainer keep them captive since we all know that the trainers are the one who own the whole park xD
just stupid to acutally believe it and down right evil to wish them death
Nobody wishes the trainers death. Even the whale didn't wish him death or she would have killed him. Animals should not be imprisoned. This is what happens when they are.
The Whale lost his mind. SeaWorld broke that poor Whale. Don't go to SeaWorld.
No, the whale was goofing off...haven't you ever joked around with your friends and played around?
These are apex predators. If this was anything other than playing a little joke on his human buddy, that man would have been dead in 5 seconds. He would have been in a hundred dismembered pieces in another 60 seconds.
#whalesjustwannahavefun
Dont tell me what to do.
@@henzsol6771 you know sometimes killer whales play with there food before they eat it
Henz Sol mate do your research. These whales were drugged, forced to perform and depressed. The whale wasn’t goofing off, they want to be set free or not forced to perform everyday for nothing.
Eevee Vulpix I mean if you want to encourage depressed and suicidal animals then go ahead, but it’ll just show how much of a downgrade of a human being you are
POOR ANIMALS!! this type of places should be banned
Who else can’t breath watching this?! This poor guy really loved the orcas and learned too late that what he was doing was wrong. He’s out there educating people about why these orcas need to be left alone. What an amazing survivor.
In fact another former trainer says this guy pete punish the whales when they didn't do a good show..and also.he keeps working that place for many years
What's his name, please? Thanks.
@@NOCOBE not that guy particularly lol. It's their way of training, you make it sound like it was just this guy
@@corneliawalter5940 you make it sound like it's cool to punish orcas for not entertaining humans. They shouldn't be in these tanks for life.
@@MsMichaela999 Is Ken Peters, but he was not interviewed in the documentary. It seems he didn't like it. czcams.com/video/lZulNRn1nYQ/video.html
This was a show of dominance. The whale was basically saying, "You can put me in a tank and I'll do your tricks, but I'm in charge here, not you.
NEVER you."
Still poor man just try to do his job here
Yeah he also thought about his favourite netflix show dude
Facts😳
I like the way this poor bloke had absolutely nothing to defend himself with or any of his peers had a clue what to do in this situation, geniuses 👏👍
that whale showed a ton of mercy, pun intended. given the situation, she could have annihilated that trainer in a nanosecond, captive animals do get fed up. he's lucky she wasn't fed up enough to do him in, but she did show him who's really in charge, and the real boss of the water. not those ra-ra fake cheerleaders in wetsuits making a livings off this.
Patrick McKenna what's the pun
I'm not very creative I think the word “ton”
@@catherinemarie7058 10 months late but its Mercy. Mercy is a type of pods dolphins are in. There are 4 and killer whales are dolphin called orcas. The biggest dolphins.
if you've watched the movie blackfish, then you know it wasn't the trainers' faults. They weren't told any details about the attacks that the whales had committed against trainers; most of the time they were actually told the trainer who had gotten attack was at fault, and that the whales were NOT aggressive or deadly. So shut up. The trainers loved the animals.
Thats tilikum, thats a dude whale. Legend whale. Most of the seaworld whales today are decendants of him. Hes been apart of 4 human deaths. Watch the documentary BlackFish
Kasatka heard her daughter, Kalia, crying for her in a nearby tank during the show. She was frustrated at being separated from her crying daughter. The trainers said Kalia had been screaming just before Kasatka went nuts.
Heartbreaking
Hence, she didn't go nuts.
I went there in the early 90s, being face to face with an orca at the big glass window as a 4 year old.
Will never forget it. But it took me a while to realise the abuse these animals endured.
If the orca wanted to he could of ripped of his leg in a heartbeat. Good thing the trainer is a diver, so that helped him to hold his breath for awhile
Orca: "Where's my fish Jimmy? I gave you a week. I didn't wanna have to do this..."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha
A large marine mammal that only has a pool to swim in when it's used to the ocean, pumped with drugs to keep it docile, separated from its family, forced to play tricks for another species' entertainment. Gee, I wonder what could go wrong.
You'd eventually be at the end of your rope too if someone did that too you.
at least he brought him up for air.
😂😂
Y'unique Phillips ... right before he died.
Elizabeth Gonzalez he didn’t die
Brung him up for air cause it needed air it’s self
Mp Pow wow naw a whale can hold its breath wayyyy longer lmao look it up he brung him back up cause he knew he needed to breath not because the whale who lives in water was drowning 🤔🤦♂️😂😂😂
Also I looked it up, and the reason she did that to him is because she was upset because she could hear her baby making noise from a distance (she had be separated from her) and couldn't get to her and this was her way of dealing with her stress. She could of killed him if she wanted to, she let him back up because these animals are way more forgiving than they should be.
We are so arrogant as a species that we think we can keep a 12500lb whale in a swimming pool and not expect something like this to happen, The whale was absolutely right to behave like this and any animal would under the same circumstances. To be fair the reaction of the whale was rather understated and controlled considering it’s circumstances.
What’s crazy about this is the fact he still tries to calm the orca down. He’s scared but he doesn’t seem to even be mad at her.
@neotokyo exactly. No choice
@invertedpixel yeah could've gotten worse, poor guy was trying to run when it came turning. Btw it dived after that right?
Or he did that till he got away from the whale, see how fast he swam away and how he ran away from the tank when he got out.
OBVIOUSLY HES TALKING AFTER THE WHALE LET HIM GO...
@Christina Smith i totally appreciate the sentiment. But hed have to have a katana. A smallish knife even 6 or 8 inches you only anger it. Wouldn't even make it through the fat layer.
Wow! Now those are a good set of lungs. I cant hold my breath for more than maybe 20 seconds.
Me 1 nanosecond and I am sead
It's crazy to me how humans put themselves in these types of situations
That's the gold standard of training and diving like a pro. Even when he fears for his life, he stays calm and saves himself in the end. Amazing
The calmness didn't save him, the Orca just let him go.
@@enasnirercos7626 no
@@kaleb7636 yes
@@enasnirercos7626 no
@@enasnirercos7626 the fact that you don’t understand that him being calm enough to not panic while being underwater is crazy
These creatures are to live in oceans, not goldfish bowls.
Go figure...
The way he ran when he finally got out of the pool was so sad. Like you could tell how scared he was.
Good they keep those whales in prisons and make them perform circus tricks for our amusement that whale shoulda taken his leg off that trainer doesn’t give af about the whale obviously
The way the orca is calm at the end. Makes me think he was showing the trainer how they feel. Trapped. They hate living there ! Let them be free
My thought exactly
I am sure there was a moment, his whole life flashed right in front of him. He is one Lucky man.🙈🙊🙉😱
@@dianefavuzza7281 😂👍
You mean his life splashed in front of him
He deserved it for treating that whale as if it was a dog
Apparently this happenes not once but multiple times through training so assuming by the calm demeanor he had and how quickly he assessed the situation I can say this is probably not his first time
@@jamesoden1223 If it wasn't his first time, then had he drowned it would have been completely on him. One incident is all it should take to realize that your life comes before any job.
Can't blame a wild animal for doing that, thats the risk you take.
He was smart to keep a cool head. If he would've panicked, he would've been history.
The calmness didn't save him, the Orca just let him go.
when he came up he looked so out of it, i am sure that lack oxygen made him black out and somehow adrenaline brought him around..
He wasn't out of it, he was catching his breath of air because he didn't know when he would go back under. He also tried stroking the orca to let him go because he thought the bond him and the orca had would make it stop
IA Rocks maybe the orca told the man it’s life story
He saw the trainer go over the line net and did exactly the same. Smart
The fact that they even allowed them at one point to get in the water with them knowing that they are in captivity & can attack is really crazy😳
It’s totally bonkers
They dont attack bc of captivity 🤣 u dummies throw it in there to sound more morally right.
More crazy is the stupid people who pays to maintain this kind of absurd business
Anything for the sea world execs to make a buck
What?
I think it’s even more sad that the whales are so emotionally, and socially wrecked. They were taken from their pods in the wild, then put into tiny tanks they have never been in before, and with other orcas they are not friends with, and I mean like they are orcas that are from different cultures and they speak different languages so they fight, then they were forced to jump for the pleasure of humans, and if they didn’t they were deprived of food, then they are frustrated and can’t do anything about it, so attacked the humans. Then sea world says that they take good care of them?!?!? And the orcas die young so sea world says that they only live to 25-30 years but they really live to be 80-100 for females and males live 50-70. And sea world also says that their fins flop over as they get older but really it means that they are unhealthy, and also in the wild they only have fins that fall over less than 1% of the time. I’m sorry for the orcas they don’t deserve that kind of treatment and they suffer a lot. I am never going to sea world again.
An Orcha is not an ordinary fish. It is highly intelligent and knows about it's surroundings. He knows that he's in captivity and being played with like a toy.
Mammal
That’s one intelligent animal. Knows exactly what they’re doing.
saw the documentary black fish with my kids yesterday. its a very informative documentary. my 10 year old kid said he would never go to seaworld. thats how powerful the movie is.
I love Blackfish! It breaks my heart. I went to Seaworld back in the 70's when I was little and it breaks my heart to know what really goes on there...😓
I like the film but I think it could've been a little edgier and just a bit more informative--and I'm not saying this because I want sick thrills; I consider myself an empathic person and actually felt really bad for both trainers and orcas based on what I saw. I just think, to truly bring home the gravity of the situation, the film shouldn't shy away from the serious content. It already flirted with shocking content and then every time we saw something alarming, the camera would just stop and move on to some other image. I found it a frustrating directorial choice. The director had more footage she chose not to show, I guess to keep it family-friendly enough so that people could watch it with their kids, and because she herself is a mom, which probably colored her thinking. I think, if she's going to make a case for how dangerous it is for human beings to interact with captive orcas, she really needed to shock the public awake and not hide the footage she didn't want people to see, even if it resulted in a more mature rating. But I still think it's a powerful documentary and I'm glad it's had the cultural impact it has had to bring people to a better awareness that orcas kept in captivity are truly mistreated in ways we would consider inhumane if we did it to human beings.
Thank you for educating your children on this. 👏
A lifetime of abuse, and confinement caused this.
I think it's safe to say the trainer was scared shitless.... for good reason! that's a lucky man!
OMG, the orca followed him even after he swam over the net!
Thank god he was able to hold his breath for such an incredible amount of time. Saved his own life. These animals need to be kept strictly in the wild they have multiple oceans to swim through for a reason.
That whale showed the man more mercy then we've ever shown those whales.. there better creatures then we are.
This is so hard to watch... when he finally comes up for air, you can tell he’s trying to breathe as much as he can in case the whale brings him back down since he was still holding onto his foot... you can see how much fear he had by the way he swam away
Think how the whales feel being ripped from their pods and stuck in tiny tanks. Disgusting 🤮
why is it hard to watch man didnt even die
How much fear did he have?
Trainer: Let's show them a trick!
Orca: Let me show YOU a trick...
You know, if the “trainers” stopped agreeing to do this then it wouldn’t happen. Trainer aren’t as responsible as owners but they hold some responsibility
It should be impossible to own an orca.
Heretic Life I don’t thinks the trainers are mostly to blame. It’s the company because Seaworld is the one telling these trainers that what they are doing is fine and safe.
@@wienerschnitzelislife6070 And who doesn't want to make money from something they are trained for, handsome amount of money actually . Having said that iam against it, it's not the trainers who captured these orcas. Nor the trainers have a say these matters. You know kind of "head of the snake thing" are to blame. trainers are still part of it.
@@wienerschnitzelislife6070 people who persist in working for a company that exploits both them and the animals they care for are only hurting themselves. Commenting on that sad reality is nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps the issue is that it so directly touches on one of many problems? Do keep in mind - if many of these trainers' own statements are to be believed (eg the entirety of Hazel McBride's book) they frequently walk away from the animals they claim to care about. All the time.
After the trainer got away the whale was following him like "where you going boo?"
Boo 👻
These animals are basically tortured for decades and most people are just fine with that but when one animal is threatening a human it will be talked about as a sensation for decades.
The trainer Kasatka kept his cool and survived. He is an amazing swimmer and trainer.
Brian O Kasatka is the orca not the trainer :) watch BlackFish
Ken Peters is the trainers name. I guess she ha bit ken twice before this incident.
Brian O Kasatka ia the orca -.-
He's not even a trainer, none of them are. They don't even have a marine life education and lie about everything
Brian O believe me.. what they do to these animals are beyond sad starving them forcing them to do tricks in front of millions of people just don’t visit sea world..
Kasakta had her calf Takara taken away from her not long before the attack. She was still grieving during this show, and attacked her trainer. Her trainer Kenneth Peters had diving experience, and was able to hold his breath for quite some time. With him patting her and rubbing her, it slowly helped her calm down, then she released his foot. Kasakta is dead now, may she rest in peace.
did she died from old age or they killed her bc of this?
@@bellgonzalez6022 she died from illness
Did you get that info from Blackfish?
@@canadasweetie Only a tiny bit.
Why are whale calves taken away?
That makes no sense.
If you want a happy well-adjusted whale, let him/her grow up with their mother.
Strange how they would save a person from drowning in the ocean... yet they want to drown one in captivity... I wonder why
Can't blame the whale. Boycott SeaWorld.
G R that's an ignorant statement.
Old Man Dan who cares?
G R you my friend are a special kind of stupid.
3 people killed by one orca(that still performs as far as i know) at seaworld so far... they got under investigation for mistreating animals... and yet you call G R ignorant and stupid... people these days...
@@emilyrose5536 no your the FUKING STUPID IDIOTIC PEOPLE LIVING HERE
Fun fact; this same whale, kasatka, attacked this same trainer twice
Probably would too. Lol
Honestly surprised this dude didn’t quit right after this. Like what are you thinking dude you’re lucky to be alive
He swam like he was in the Olympics.
What happened the second time
That is such a fun fact
and this is a perfect example of why a wild animal should not be held captive. I'm glad the trainer is ok.
I only found out about this from the documentary blackfish. My god what a good documentary on why KillerWhales shouldn’t be in captivity and this man shows what it’s like to be built different. Look at the way he is trained in deep diving. The way he knows he’s going back under. This man has me nothing but impressed on how he responded to the situation.
*God
This is what happens when you try to control a giant, smart, and powerful mammal with training and containing them in a fishbowl. Not the first time and won't be the last time man is reminded who is ultimately more powerful.
Imagine being able to roam the seas then be put in a small tank separated from your pack. Captivity is barely manageable with humans. Why would it work on other intelligent mammals who pay little mind to ways of man?
It’s sad because in the wild they’re incredibly friendly in the wild, but the way they’re treated in these tanks makes it so they have no where to release their anger and so they take it out on each other or on their trainers. In the wild they’ll come up to boats of whale watchers and let little kids pet them but here they become more aggressive.
I find it hilarious how people don’t expect this to happen. You’re keeping a wild killer whale in a massive tank, of course it’s going to be frustrated and end up doing something like this. 🤦🏻♀️
Jessica Hendry many of the trainers didn’t know anything about orcas other than what they were told by sea world.
Edgar Retana regardless of what they do and don’t know, it’s still a wild animal.
Amni Ony not sure if that was meant to be an insult but it made me giggle 😂
Alternative title: wild animal held captive in a tiny pool against their will for our own "entertainment" responds appropriately
No matter how long or how many years you have been training with it, orcas, killer whales are wild mammals who always have their natural instincts, sea world trainers will never have a orca, killer whale under their complete control. I truly applaud the trainer in that terrifying situation who kept incredibly calm, knowing what that orca was capable of doing. These truly beautiful and magnificent mammals don’t deserve to be in sea world aquarium, enough is enough.
I feel pretty confident saying that guy never swam with another whale after that incident. He was very lucky.
It’s so clear and obvious what it’s trying to tell them. They’re incredibly smart.
It's not just SeaWorld as a business. No one forced the trainers to get into a tank with an animal that can become violent or threatening whenever they see fit. No one forced the trainers to facilitate in the abuse that may contribute to events like these.
Who do you think is paying the trainers? If the trainers quit, they find new trainers, people need money. It's SeaWorld as a business and capitalism unregulated at it's worst.
Apparently many of the trainers were oblivious to their living conditions outside of the arena they trained in. With a job that cool getting to perform with orcas or makes sense they wouldn’t really question sea worlds methods. Plus many of the performers admitted to not knowing anything about whales other then what they were told by sea world. Thank you creators of blackfish for spreading awareness
@@veritasetaequitas4310 - Good old capitalism. Too many people worship it. It's only useful if highly restricted and controlled.
@@edgarretana8377 yes its not until a few years in they get to see some of the darker aspects of how things work and internet was not huge like it is now. this is a key aspect i have issues with regarding woke and cancel culture today, judging past people by todays standards is absurd and it applies here. current trainers i have no excuse for but its possible they think better them than someone who doesn't care about the animal, who knows? With the stop of breeding and capturing it should all stop relatively soon.
These trainers loved the orcas and stated their faults in not knowing further how they were truly treated. These whales need at least the love of caring trainers while they are alone 24/7. It’s not the trainers fault or control.
Whale is like “I was just playing bro”
Before I red your comment I thought the same and wrote my comment according! If it was the case that the Orca was hunting him he wouldn’t be alive!
Right 😂
These people will never understand that as long as you put a 10,000 pound wild animal in a bathtub, things can go wrong very quickly
Every time I watch this I get chills.
I get sweaty 😓 like my aunt Betty
Was probably telling him how it felt to be in there all the time
How stupid the whale was just playing. The man's lucky to be alive. Not enough humility in front of this creature!
This is one of the most anxiety-inducing videos I’ve ever seen.
unsee it then
This is shown in Blackfish and the thing is, the trainers love and care about the orcas. They don't have to have any qualifications or previous training to do this job, they are told a bunch of lies and then they learn for themselves how awful this is for the whales. They know that there is nothing they can do to save them so they do their job with love. This man trusted the orca with his life and continued to work with it because he cared.
Problem is it's the way there's orcas are separated, captured, held captive, trained fed a repeatative diet, made to perform then locked away again until the next performance
If they loved them they’d advocate for their release.
Talk about terrifying. Poor trainer. And that poor orca too. Probably thought he was playing. They play like this in the wild too. We really need to stop having animals in captivity like this. It’s wrong.
The orca in this video is a female and she wasn't playing, she deliberately attacked him by biting into is foot while refusing to let go and tried to drown him.
1. Don’t steal and trap orchas in tiny pools
2. Do they not have a sedative dart or any protective measures to stop this? I do they just wait it out every time?
3. Are they not teaching these people how to fight back, or have any small protective weapon on them?
4. Team must care, he had to run on his broken ankle/knee/leg to get away.
Shut this place down.
He's lucky he was dealing with a mammal that needed to breath.A shark would have been a whole different story.
he would've still hurt the shark tho
The shark would eat him
First of all...orcas are way more powerful than sharks...hence they're more dangerous...
Second...ALL ANIMALS NEED TO BREATHE!
Orcas can be underwater way longer than this. Her needing to take a breath was likely not the reason she surfaced. If she did need a breath she didn't have to stick around up there-she could have pulled him right back under in a blink.
Orcas average 15 minutes per coming up to breathe and the average human struggles with a minute. He was lucky.
I don’t feel bad for the humans, they are wild animals you can’t keep a killer whale in a pool and have them do shows everyday, they need to be freed
I think the whale was warning him to leave him alone. He brought him back up eventually, so he could breath.
Facts😌