Sea World Stories, #1

February 10, 2009 by Tim
Filed under: Theme Parks 

sharkSeeing blog posts and tweets from various and sundry bloggers that seem to have gathered for a trip to Sea World – Orlando brought back memories of my time working there one summer in college. Normally, I was assigned to the Fantasy Theatre, working the Under the Sea show as an usher, or Dr. Lovecraft’s Night Magic Show (this was a veeeerrrrryyyyy long time ago!). One day, I was assigned to cover the Shark Encounter for whatever reason. While there, I noticed a dead grouper on the bottom of the tank.

The special in the employee cafeteria the following day: Grouper Bits.

Stay tuned, I have a million of ‘em… ;-)

Creative Commons License photo credit: eschipul

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21 Comments on Sea World Stories, #1

  1. Tudi on Wed, 11th Feb 2009 3:23 am

    2. All I can say is….eeeewww :)

    Haven’t been to Sea World yet, so I can’t really compare, but visiting the Aquarium in Valencia, Spain was awesome experience. I urge you, if you’re ever in that area, take a day off and visit the Aquarium, it’s brilliant. No dead groupers though, but I did see a very old and lazy seal.

  2. M. Weber on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 7:39 pm

    3. What a story!

    I guess the company (Sea World) believes in making sure everything should have its purpose.
    When you mentioned the dead grouper, and having “that” meal served in the cafeteria the next day…well…I guess, it’s good to eat fish?!?!!

    If you look at it from another angle…

    Four ounces of uncooked grouper has only 110 calories, 2 grams of fat (none is saturated) and only 55 grams of cholesterol. When you add the 23 grams of protein plus calcium and iron, grouper begins to look like the perfect food. Because the grouper meat is so low in fat, some basting may be necessary when grilling, broiling or baking. Florida grouper can be purchased fresh or frozen.

    Great to know everyone’s diet in the Sea World is not something we should worry about!

  3. Connie on Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 7:48 pm

    4. There’s some hefty fines for catching grouper now. SeaWorld may be in big trouble!

  4. automobile insurance quote on Fri, 17th Apr 2009 6:17 am

    5. Sear World is simple awesome esp the whale show and also the whale-shark show together. Its really very beautiful. Especially the shows which are conducted on the sea world simply great. Rides and all simply awesome.

  5. seminoleflhomes on Fri, 17th Apr 2009 11:28 am

    6. we have the a clearwater marine aquarium where there is a famous dolphin that was rescued about 15 years ago and had to have it’s tail amputated. It is now learning to swim with a prosthetic tail that cost $250,000 to develop. Pretty Wild!

  6. Kenneth Sena on Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 5:20 pm

    7. sea world might be awesome but they are also quiet dangerous… more dangerous than the aquarium… aren’t you afraid of it? gee, me seeing the sharks makes me feel like drowning…

  7. Dirk on Tue, 19th May 2009 3:24 am

    8. I am so scared of sharks! This is a dangerous predator, and I would not like to be somewhere close to them!

  8. Bobby Mington on Wed, 12th Aug 2009 9:43 am

    9. i was at seaworld a few months back, and i swear i saw fake penguins!! :)

  9. Ac? Cehre on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 2:33 am

    10. Woow its scared.. thanks for picture and article man

  10. Lida on Tue, 1st Sep 2009 9:13 am

    11. thanks for great information

  11. perde on Wed, 2nd Sep 2009 9:41 am

    12. nice articles, thank you very much man…

  12. Louisiana on Mon, 7th Sep 2009 4:50 am

    13. Sea is largest fish in this word…………

  13. Magnolia TX Computer Repair on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 5:47 pm

    14. I love Sea World! Haven’t been there in a few years. Great shark photo you got there I never had a shark encounter like yourself, lol.

  14. Fluxreader on Sat, 26th Sep 2009 4:37 pm

    15. c est toujour aussi savoureux. Ong’ y trouve a boire et a manger. Mais la c’est genial bravo

  15. kelly on Wed, 14th Oct 2009 1:44 am

    16. that’s gross. But I completely get it. I worked at a Mcdonalds for a summer, and after that, guess what? Never ate again McDonalds.

  16. John removal on Tue, 17th Nov 2009 10:50 am

    17. what a cool job to have. that’s too funny that you saw that and then they had it for lunch the next day. yummy. what else did they have in that tank?

  17. Billy Liu on Mon, 30th Nov 2009 12:00 am

    18. wow,thanks for sharing your wonderful experience.

  18. Mark A on Mon, 30th Nov 2009 10:09 am

    19. I love dolphins the best. So any dolphin show I make sure I watch it. Twice! LOL! Seals are funny to watch too. It seems all they do is go after the man, or woman, with the fish. =P

  19. Jeffery on Tue, 22nd Dec 2009 12:16 pm

    20. Perhaps it was scary to see such a perch. Photograph was taken very eerie and at the same time beautiful.

  20. New Cars Online on Wed, 3rd Feb 2010 4:59 am

    21. Its the largest mammal in the world.

  21. toplu sms on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 5:08 am

    22. waaow its looks so horrible :/ i scared but nice shot, congrats.

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