Publisher's Synopsis
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove at two of SeaWorld's US facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programmes were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. In 'Beneath the Surface', Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures.
