shamu eats trainer in front of audience

[Dave]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

If he was able to get to Frisco to score some weed, wetsuit girl would still be alive.

JC

on the contrary, when he got the munchies he probably would have swallowed her whole

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by AquaPython

he has killed 5 previous people, originally from canada.

They should give him a Coast Guard job at Lake Erie instead of doing shows.

I like dolphins a lot and don't see the need to capture them when in the wild they are friendly enough to humans so that you can go up to them anyways. I remember reading that there has only been 1 or 2 documented cases of a Killer Whale killing a human in the wild. I'd feel safe being in the ocean and seeing a killer whale or any other kind of dolphin.

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

They should give him a Coast Guard job at Lake Erie instead of doing shows.

I like dolphins a lot and don't see the need to capture them when in the wild they are friendly enough to humans so that you can go up to them anyways. I remember reading that there has only been 1 or 2 documented cases of a Killer Whale killing a human in the wild. I'd feel safe being in the ocean and seeing a killer whale or any other kind of dolphin.

I went whale watching on Vancouver island in 03. We came upon a "super pod". There were easily 50 orca swimming around us. They looked so calm and docile. But, guess which guy didn't put his hands anywhere near the water??

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by Tmall

I went whale watching on Vancouver island in 03. We came upon a "super pod". There were easily 50 orca swimming around us. They looked so calm and docile. But, guess which guy didn't put his hands anywhere near the water??

Ya, you'd think it'd be common sense.

Hey, this animal is only about 50 times my size (mathematicly), why dont I just jump into an undersized tank and play with it?

Imagine if 50 Orca's decided to 'play' with a whalewatching boat?

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Tmall

But, guess which guy didn't put his hands anywhere near the water??

The guy that still has both his hands?

JC

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Tmall

I went whale watching on Vancouver island in 03. We came upon a "super pod". There were easily 50 orca swimming around us. They looked so calm and docile. But, guess which guy didn't put his hands anywhere near the water??

I thought we established that Orcas don't like Canadians. Americans should be okay. Probably thanks to our navy ships dumping so much food into the ocean.

[Smittie61984]

Found a cool vid where Shamu plays with a seal like it's a frisbee at a Dave Matthews concert
http://fliiby.com/file/9164/zi58x7zakg.html

Bad ass motherfuckers they are
http://fliiby.com/file/133041/jiglscy3x7.html

[Tmall]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4vNn2b6CU

[Apoc]

I've seen that vid a few times now, and it never ceases to impress me!

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Apoc

I've seen that vid a few times now, and it never ceases to impress me!

I've seen it before (infact posted in a thread a while back) but never saw the end where the seal was back up. I think in the Discovery version they did say they were training the young Orcas how to hunt. Very cool.

The coolest vid I've seen was where some Scuba divers for Discovery where below an ice pack with the Orcas and this one Orca had a grip on a seal and kept trying to give it to the Cameraman as a gift. It finally let go of the seal but was very neat to see how the Orca wanted to interact with the human.

Interesting story I heard at work the other day about dolphins is a guy's father was shot down in the ocean during the Korean war. He was safe in the ocean because Korea didn't have much of a navy but the land had troops. He was waiting for some American boats to come and then kept getting bumped by what he thought was a shark. It was actually a dolphin pushing him to shore. Of course the dolphin pushed him straight into enemy hands where he became a POW. He's not a fan of dolphins aparently.