The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm thrilled to be partnered up with SeaWorld.
There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.