I don’t have much use for Sea World. Whale watching in the ocean was much more fun for me than the Sea World show.
I don’t care for most zoos in our country either. The National Zoo in DC is in terrible condition and should be shut down.
I didn't really get it. I did see some impressive large-scale engineering, but I doubt that even one in one hundred noticed it.
I too thought the massive, sterile white killer whale tank didn't look right as a habitat for wild animals. The whale act didn't impress me at all. Even if they had done the whole act the day we were there (which they didn't, the whales weren't cooperating or something), I just didn't find it to be very entertaining. They were constantly trying to emphasize their big commitment to conservation, which just didn't make sense in the context of the act itself.
I grew up during the SCUBA craze of the early 1960s, and I think SeaWorld is kind of a hold-over from that era, now an anachronism.