SeaWorld Announces Sea Rescue TV Series
Press Release from Litton Entertainment:
Sea Rescue will debut on April 7, 2012, and will be broadcast nationally on Saturday mornings during Litton's Weekend Adventure, a three-hour block of six series airing on 95 percent of the country's ABC Affiliates. The new show will follow Good Morning America in most markets.
"I grew up watching family-friendly shows like The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and Wild Kingdom. These shows entertained us with beautiful images of nature, yet taught us that we are the guardians of delicate wildlife. It's a dream come true to share stories of the dedicated men and women who devote their lives to rescuing animals in danger. Wouldn't it be great if this show inspires yet another generation to appreciate the wonders of the sea," said Champion.
"SeaWorld has rescued 20,000 animals over the last 40 years, and we are thrilled to bring viewers inside our most extraordinary and heartfelt stories of rescue, rehabilitation and release," said Jim Atchison, Chief Executive Officer and President of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. "Our wildlife rescue teams are on call 24/7 and every day is a new adventure, whether airlifting a manatee by helicopter out of the Everglades, replicating mother's milk for an orphaned gray whale, or creating a back brace for a stranded pilot whale with scoliosis."
"Litton Studios' Sea Rescue exemplifies the educational and inspirational mission of Weekend Adventure," said Morgan.
Sea Rescue will showcase amazing stories of the rescue, rehabilitation and return to the wild of marine animals by a team of dedicated veterinarians, animal care experts, animal science researchers and government authorities. Led by one of the nation's most recognized and respected journalists, Sam Champion, Sea Rescue will take viewers on incredible and heartwarming adventures through a combination of first-hand accounts, expert insight and remarkable footage.
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This is a public relations strategy by an entertainment corporation to drive more business to their theme parks. With Death At SeaWorld approaching its publication date, SeaWorld wants to offset the negative publicity coming its way. SeaWorld's reason for existence is to make money. They use conservation and education to obfuscate this so people will feel they're participating in something "nice" rather than the exploitation of marine mammals for money which is really what SeaWorld is about. That ABC would participate in this deluding of the public will make me skip their channel. Many others will, too.
SEA WORLD IS AWESOME!!!!
and their fozern lemonade is TO DIE FOR!!!
i know where my family's next vacation is!! AGAIN!!!!
those tricks they do jumping over fire hoops.... CLASSIC!!
Seaworld do NOT rescue, rehab and Release ! Why are there so many dolphins who are healthy in capivity at seaworld then?
FACT: Seaworld trainers stand on the hunting boats with Japanese fishermen at Taiji Japan. Where the trapping in the cove, hunting and massacre of dolphins takes place. The only dolphins that survive this are the ones the Seaworld trainers choose to catch and take back to a miserable life of captivity where the size of the pool they live in is the equivalent of a bathtub after the ocean.
Yes Seaworld trainers who say they love dolphins choose their specimen for a life of exploitation and captivity then look on while the rest of the pod and family is mercilessly butchered. The dolphins take 10 to 15 minutes to die.
Are you feeling the love? Frankly I'm not.
The only love involved in Seaworld is love of money and profits.
They pay 150,000 to 300,000 for a dolphin hunted and captured from the wild to be brought back for a life of misery in captivity being exploited for entertainment.
So if they really want to do some good in the world - why don't they stop sending their trainers out on hunting boats ? And send the trainers out to stop the hunting boats and help the dolphins stay where they belong along with the other sea creatures they exploit for their profit?
This programme needs to be seen for what it really is - a desperate attempt to keep brainwashing the public that Seaworld do good when they really are nothing more than hunters and animal torturers with big pools and big wallets.
I would like to ask SeaWorld why, if they're in the business of "rescue, rehab, and release", there are ANY healthy whales and dolphins at SeaWorlds in all locations, as well as places owned or operated by SeaWorld, such as Loro Parque. It seems to me that 95% of the dolphins and whales in the "shows" at SeaWorld are there to fill Blackstone Group's (corporation that owns SW) coffers. This is sickening! Whales and dolphins are forced into captivity for MONEY and GREED only. Why are they not "rescued, rehabbed, and released"??
Sam Champion is a good guy, and I'm sure he thinks he has good intentions, but he is either a corporate lackey or just plain uneducated about the plight of many captive cetaceans at SW!
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