IMPORTANT UPDATE

OK guys, something really terrible has happened and I'm going to need you breath and be aware that this is the direct result of humans keeping these great beings in captivity.

On September 20th, 2012 Nakai (an 11-year-old orca at Sea World San Diego) was seriously injured during a night performance with two other whales. Sea World is claiming this was a result of him getting caught on a portion of the tank. The rest of us believe that this was the result of an attack by one or both of the other whales. Looking at the wound it looks like it was bitten clean off. And anyway, if Sea World had any brains at a, they wouldn't claim it was their tank since that would only illustrate that they do not keep their whales in a safe facility.

The image below shows the extent of the damage.
Photo from Tim Zimmerman's Tumblr.
The missing piece was recovered from the bottom of the tank. There has been some talk by others on various forums, facebook pages and blogs about potentially reattaching the missing piece, but according to many this is not likely as the forces in the water would prevent it.

Nakai's biggest problem now is infection. He is being given a lot of antibiotics to help and they are apparently using honey as a topical solution to help with the infection.

How can we let this go on? How can we let these humans get away with this? These whales were put in this situation and all of this wouldn't have happened if not for the greed of humans.

Please keep Nakai in your thoughts and share this story with everyone you can. 

If you have any updates on how Nakai is doing or any photos to share, please email us!
9/28/2012 08:37:28 am

Sickening - I gasped when I saw these photos. WTF (and I usually don't swear in a comment) but really this is beyond anything I can wrap my head around.

As grisly as it is to see thank you for sharing this. I will go looking for updates and will keep you posted.

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