Seaworld Trainer killed by whale

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gorocks99
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Feb 24, 2010 6:25pm
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Feb 24, 2010 6:26pm
I have been under a few whales and got nothing except for a bruised ego.
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Feb 24, 2010 6:28pm
Definitely not saying the whale didn't have a part in it..as I believe it did. But the whole drowning thing isn't that far fetched. She could have slipped and hit her head on the edge rendering her unconscious maybe? Possibly that's why she 'drowned'?
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Feb 24, 2010 6:39pm
GoChiefs wrote: Definitely not saying the whale didn't have a part in it..as I believe it did. But the whole drowning thing isn't that far fetched. She could have slipped and hit her head on the edge rendering her unconscious maybe? Possibly that's why she 'drowned'?
This is what I was thinking, which scares the hell out of me that GoChiefs mentioned it! :D

If the whale were a pit bull, they'd put a bullet through it's head.
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Feb 24, 2010 7:06pm
:@ Don't forget..I know which path you occasionally take to a certain posters home in a certain nearby town every now and then. Don't think with that information..I can't find you! :D
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Feb 24, 2010 7:17pm
Something must have smelled like fish
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Feb 24, 2010 7:54pm
lesson to be learned from this:

Don't piss off an Orca
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Feb 24, 2010 8:02pm
That's what you get for swimming with the world's largest predator...
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Gardens35
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Feb 24, 2010 8:10pm
If I heard the news report correctly.....this is the third incident of death involving a human and this same whale since 1992.
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Feb 24, 2010 8:17pm
http://www.news4jax.com/news/22660616/detail.html
A SeaWorld killer whale seized a trainer in its jaws Wednesday and thrashed the woman around underwater, killing her in front of a horrified audience. It marked the third time the animal had been involved in a human death.

Distraught audience members were hustled out of the stadium immediately, and the park was closed.

Trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was one of the park's most experienced. It was not clear if she drowned or died from the thrashing.

A former contractor with SeaWorld told the Orlando Sentinel that the whale, Tilikum, is typically kept isolated from SeaWorld's other killer whales and that trainers were not allowed to get in the water with him because of his violent history.
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Feb 24, 2010 8:26pm
Gardens35 wrote: If I heard the news report correctly.....this is the third incident of death involving a human and this same whale since 1992.
So..it's a 'serial killer whale'.

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Feb 24, 2010 8:48pm
So sad.
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Feb 24, 2010 8:53pm
its a shame but imagine a horrified little kid who saw it. traumatized.
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Feb 24, 2010 11:21pm
Tilikum is a nearly 30-year-old, 12,300-pound bull orca.
R.I.P Dawn Brancheau.

http://www.wesh.com/news/22659996/detail.html

this link has a witness statement. sounds awful, she said Dawn was rubbing Tilikum's belly, then Tilikum took off around the water real fast, came back around, jumped up and grabbed the trainer. About 50 witnesses, including a bunch of little kids saw it.

http://www.clickorlando.com/video/22663393/index.html

http://www.wftv.com/news/22659910/detail.html

I was right by Seaworld today an hour after it happened. Dropped my daughter at Orlando airport then went to I-drive to the outlet stores and Bass Pro Shop.
In a wierd related story, the rare Northern Atlantic Right Whales have been seen off the beach since Sunday playing around, heading back to Nova Scotia. They were at New Smyrna Beach, then Daytona yesterday, probably will be by St. Augustine and Jacksonville the next few days. Those things are HUGE.
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Feb 24, 2010 11:26pm
Alright everyone don't jump all over me for this but...


I wonder if there is a video of this??
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Feb 24, 2010 11:27pm
Just saw the story on the local news. Sad for sure but I am surprised this doesn't happen more often. Don't fuck with Mother Nature
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Feb 24, 2010 11:28pm
I was thinkin' it too Fab don't feel bad.

I'll check the tube.
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Fab1b
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Feb 24, 2010 11:29pm
Let me know if you find one
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ytownfootball
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Feb 24, 2010 11:35pm
They have spokesmen in front of microphones and a shot of the whale chillin' in the tank...that's it

not worth a look imo.
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Feb 24, 2010 11:36pm
i think at some point a video will come out
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ytownfootball
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Feb 24, 2010 11:41pm
Somebody had a camera there, I don't doubt it for a minute.

It would certainly be in poor taste but I've come to expect that these days.
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Feb 24, 2010 11:48pm
here is a video of Dawn in 2000
http://www.wesh.com/video/22663480/index.html

on the 3 links I posted, there are more related news reports on those pages.
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JTizzle
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Feb 25, 2010 10:19am
I think this whale is being framed!
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Feb 25, 2010 10:36am
Well, Dawn Brancheau is the woman I was speculating on before. She is from Toledo. Very sad.
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Feb 25, 2010 12:00pm
Don't always agree with PETA, but i hope they use this tragedy to spur some change in regards to keeping large mammals like this in tanks that are essentially a bath tub to them.

These things could be averted by...not keeping monster animals and treating them like circus animals.