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Shamu – SeaWorld in San Diego suspended its Shamu killer whale show after a trainer was killed Wednesday at its Orlando, Florida park in front of a horrified audience. The identity of the victim has not been released, although SeaWorld president Dan Brown confirmed during a news conference that it was a senior female trainer at the park.
“We’re terribly saddened by the loss of the member of our SeaWorld family, it doesn’t matter what park,” said SeaWorld San Diego spokesman David Koontz. “We have canceled our afternoon Shamu show here today.” Koontz could not say when the daily show would resume. It was not immediately clear if the killer whale show, one of SeaWorld’s biggest draws, would also be suspended at the park’s San Antonio location, which was closed until the weekend.
The whale, named Tilikum, is apparently a wild-captured, rather than captive-bred, orca who also had some history of involvement in the earlier deaths of two other humans.
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