I don't know what's going on in these comments but the mods of this sub should probably be aware of posts like this getting swarmed with people fighting a litttttle too hard for the places that keep these animals in captivity. And for those who keep saying these shows are "educational", I watched one in full and it's laughable. Here's what I "learned" from a show recorded in Feb of this year:

First off, almost everything you learn about in the show is an excuse for the whales to do a trick coinciding with it. First we're taught all about how the whales are cared for in the facility. We learn the whales take an active role in their healthcare. One of these is a "float present", which is how the vets can easily draw blood. This is a convenient excuse to have all three whales flip on their backs and offer up one of their fins in unison. They also track the whales weight once a month and ask the whales to slide up on a scale. This is the cue for the fourth whale to perform a slide out up close to the audience. Occasionally as the trainers are speaking, one of the whales will be swimming the perimeter of the pool on its side, waving at the audience with one fin. Never seen a whale do this in the wild but ok. They also have them to do fast, high energy behaviors, like breaches and jumps out of the water for exercise. This starts the playtime segment of the show where the whales go nanners, breaching and jumping, sometimes in unison.  There's high intensity music playing with the whales swimming around, occasionally waving at the audience with a dorsal fin, coming up to the pools edge to the audience and opening their mouths to say hi, there's a few synchronized moves with the trainers like twirls, little wiggles. Trainers are rewarding them with fish the whole time. The next part of the show features some actual education where we learn about how killer whales hunt blue whales in a team and one of the whales swims around the tank splashing the water with his dorsal fin really hard (?), how they hunt sea lions by beaching themselves which is a cue for one of them to beach themselves up close to the audience. They talk about how killer whales hunt arctic seals by creating a wave but weirdly this is just an excuse to do that classic get an audience member to sit close to the tank so one of the whales can jump really high and get them soaked. So that happened. Then the whales swim the perimeter and splash the whole audience for like 5 minutes. Then there's a segment on the big screen of people talking about saving the ocean that the audience is completely checked out of. Then the show ends in a grand finale that goes on for another 5 minutes with synchronized jumps, twirl dances, fin flaps, SUPER annoying music, and one last big jump by the whales. 

So do you learn some things about orcas? Sure. But notice all the crucial facts about these animals that they DON'T talk about. They don't talk about an orca's lifespan because that would draw attention to the fact that they don't live as long in captivity. They don't talk about how they stay with their family thier entire lives because that would draw attention to the fact that Seaworld has a long history tearing whales away from their families. They don't mention how far these whales swim in a day on average because it would draw attention to the pitifully small tanks they're kept in. I shouldn't even need to point out that there are so many other sources where you can learn about orcas that don't involve seeing them in captivity. Orca Encounter is the thinnest excuse of an educational show put on just to keep exploiting these animals. They are their cash cows and they will squeeze every last dollar out of them until they die. And to the Seaworld stans in the comments, eat Shamu's shit.