emphatic repetition: Repeating was reduces Sealand to only the net.
All Sealand was was a net hanging in a marina with a float around it.Blackfish · 2013 — Capítulo 3 de 8 · 2'44" · B2
Starving Whales Into a Steel Box, Explained: on a hair trigger
Trainers describe nights in a module about 20 feet across, and the trick that got the whales inside. "So if they're hungry enough, they're going to go in there." Hunger is how the whales were made to spend two-thirds of their lives in the dark, then come out with fresh tooth rakes.
Qué pasa
Staff at Sealand describe locking the whales overnight in a module, a floating steel box about 20 feet across and 30 feet deep, with the lights out. Once the animals no longer fit easily, food was held back until they went in. In winter that meant 5 at night until 7 in the morning. Letting them out, you saw new tooth rakes and sometimes blood.
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eager to pleasefine and dandygang up onfor the most part
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on a hair trigger
ready to explode at a touch
The tone hardens from describing the box to saying he was ready to go off.
The talks are on a hair trigger after last night's walkout.
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- eager to please
keen to make others happy
- fine and dandy
perfectly fine, no trouble
- gang up on
join together against someone
- for the most part
mostly, with few exceptions
- to be honest
speaking more frankly now
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especially liked working with
Tilikum was the one we really loved to work with.keen to make others happy
Someone remembering the early days sounds fond, calling the whale keen to get things right.
He was very well behaved and he was always eager to please.perfectly fine, no trouble
The easy tone lasts one clause, then the same sentence turns to punishment.
When he was first introduced, everything just went fine and dandy, but the previous head trainer used techniques that involved punishment.pair one with the other
He would team a trained orca up with Tilikum who was untrained.dispatch both to perform it
He would send them both off to do the same behavior.Let the t in didn't flick lightly into do.
If Tilikum didn't do it, then both animals were punished.kept without food on purpose
Deprived of food to keep them hungry,participle phrase: The opening says they were starved so they would stay hungry.
Deprived of food to keep them hungry,grow angry at that one
and would in turn get frustrated with Tilikum and would rake him with his teeth.over the whole body
There would be times during certain seasons that Tilikum would be covered head to toe with rakes.Don't give to a full beat; pull head and toe together.
There would be times during certain seasons that Tilikum would be covered head to toe with rakes.covered in tooth scrapes — Trainer shop talk for those wounds; outsiders miss it.
And from head to toe you could see blood and you could see scratches, and he would just be raked up.join together against someone
It is said flatly, as a habit in the dark, after the scratches have already been described.
Both females would gang up on him.our own name for it
The issue was really that we stored these whales at night in what we call a module,their name for the night pen — Insider jargon; it will not travel outside this job.
The issue was really that we stored these whales at night in what we call a module,a step taken to prevent harm
probably 30 feet deep as a safety precaution because we were worried about people cutting the net and letting them go.slice open the enclosing net
probably 30 feet deep as a safety precaution because we were worried about people cutting the net and letting them go.switched off not a result; the lights were switched off
And the lights were all turned out, so there was really no stimulation.most of a lifetime
They're just in this dark, metal 20x30-foot pool for two-thirds of their life.mostly, with few exceptions
After saying they fit nicely, the speaker narrows it: most of the time they could not move.
So they fit in there quite nicely, but they were immobile for the most part.speaking more frankly now
It sits at the end of the sentence, marking that this line about the box is being said straight.
We started having difficulty getting them all into this one small steel box, to be honest.this is the point where it is used not walking in; the method starts
That's where food deprivation would come in.withhold food for a while
We would hold back food, and they would know if they went in the module that they would get their food.Let going to blur, then set go down lightly.
So if they're hungry enough, they're going to go in there.a sudden jolt of shock — Casual shock; skip it in formal talk.
it's a stab, it's a "whoa."noun clause: The what-clause is the result he claims, and I think hedges it.
but it probably led to what I think is a psychosis that...ready to explode at a touch
The tone hardens from describing the box to saying he was ready to go off.
he was on a hair trigger.Stress hair and let trigger ride out after it.
he was on a hair trigger.Starving Whales Into a Steel Box, explicado
What's really going on
Tilikum is introduced as the whale they loved to work with: well behaved and "always eager to please." A previous head trainer sent him out, still untrained, beside a whale who already knew the behaviors. Miss the behavior and both were punished, kept hungry, until the established animal raked him "head to toe." The whales were stored in a module, about 20 by 30 feet, lights out, "for two-thirds of their life," because people might cut the net. "It was a floating steel box." When they grew and would not go in, food was held back until hunger put them there, in winter from 5 at night to 7 in the morning. There were new tooth rakes and sometimes blood. Someone calls shutting him in "a stab," and, if the story is true, says the treatment was inhumane and left him "on a hair trigger" — "He'd kill." No killing is shown. The scene is the bargain: food on the other side of the door.
Theme
PowerTrainers hold back food so the whales will enter a dark steel module and stay there through the night.
GuiltThe account calls the box wrong, shutting the door a stab, and the treatment inhumane.
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- didn't do it — Let the t in didn't flick lightly into do.
- head to toe — Don't give to a full beat; pull head and toe together.
- going to go — Let going to blur, then set go down lightly.
- hair trigger — Stress hair and let trigger ride out after it.
All Sealand was was a net hanging in a marina with a float around it.Sealand was nothing more than a net hung in a marina, with a float around the edge.
If Tilikum didn't do it, then both animals were punished.If the untrained whale missed the behavior, the trained whale beside him was punished too.
They're just in this dark, metal 20x30-foot pool for two-thirds of their life.The whales spend two-thirds of their lives in a dark metal pool about twenty feet by thirty.
That's what it was. It was a floating steel box.The speaker stops calling it a module and names it plainly: a steel box that floats.
When you let them out, you'd see these new tooth rakes and sometimes you'd see blood.After the night in the box, the whales come out with fresh tooth marks, and sometimes those marks are bleeding.
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Why were the whales put in the module at night?
Speakers call it a safety precaution. They were worried someone would cut the net and let the whales go, so the animals spent the night in a dark metal pool about 20 feet across and 30 feet deep, with the lights out.
Why hold back their food?
The whales were getting hard to move into the one small steel box. Food was held back so they would know that going into the module was how they got fed. Hungry enough, they went in. In winter that ran from 5 at night until 7 in the morning.
What are rakes here?
A rake is teeth on teeth, dragged across the skin. Tilikum was sometimes covered head to toe with them, blood and scratches included, and new ones showed when the whales were let out in the morning.
Why did the other whales rake Tilikum?
A previous head trainer paired untrained Tilikum with a trained whale, sent them to do the same behavior, and punished both if Tilikum missed it, while keeping them hungry. The established animal got frustrated and raked him. Both females would gang up on him.
Why does closing the door feel like a stab?
Because he is locked in there for the whole night. Someone says closing that door, knowing that, feels like a stab.
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