Is it worth it?

Sea World, California (1989): August 21 "*Kandu V*, dominant female orca at SWC at the time, rushed out of a back pool, charging at the large *Corky 2*, another adult female who'd been brought to the park three years before. Opening her mouth very wide she lunged at Corky during a show, and striking the larger female's broadside. As "Kandu" returned to the north back pool, she took her first observed breath exhaling large amounts of blood. The impact had fractured her upper jaw and lacerating arteries. The  hemorrhage persisted for 45 minutes until death."

Sea World (1987): November 21 "Trainer John Sillick, 26, suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured femur, and a fractured pelvis after *Orky 2* breached on top of him while riding on *Corky 2* during a performance. Sillick had less than two years experience working with orcas."

Kandu V spurting blood from her blowhole after ramming Corky 2.

Orky 2 breached on top of Sillick during a preformance.

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Miami Seaquarium (date unknown): "Trainer Chris Christiansen received seven stitches in his cheeks after placing his head within the jaws of *Hugo*, closing his mouth on a mis-cue. Trainer Manny Velasco recalled both *Hugo* and *Lolita* becoming aggressive, lunging at trainers on the platform."

Hugo, closing his mouth on a "mis-cue", almost decapitated his trainer during this stunt.

Marineland Ontario 6/1994: "*Junior* had to spend the last four years of his short life in an awful tiny tank inside a windowless store cynically called the "warehouse" (because arriving dolphins were "stored" there before they were declared ready for the public pool). During this time he was without sunlight and outside air. To make things even worse he often had to share the already little space with several dolphins. *Junior* died in 1994 after havíng been abused probably the most of all captured whales."                                                           ~Stefan Jacobs

Junior swims in his swallow, dirty and desolate warehouse pool during his last four years of life.

Sea World, Texas (1991) May 5:   "*Kahana* died violently from injuries resulting from a collision with the pool wall, including multiple fractures of the mandible and skull, lacerations exposing portions of the brain, and severe hemorrhage. Sea World attributed the collision to a panic response caused by pain due to a 3 cm by 6 cm intestinal tumor. Following an investigation of the death, National Marine Fisheries Service notified Sea World that the cause of death would be recorded as "severe trauma."

Kahana leaps, about a year before she accidently commited suicide due to pain from a tumor.