Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
Sea World Trainer Killed – A killer whale killed a 40-year-old female trainer in an apparent attack witnessed by horrified onlookers at Florida’s SeaWorld entertainment park, police and the park’s manager said. Authorities at first said the woman died after apparently falling into the whale’s tank, but an eyewitness claimed the animal leapt out of [...]
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Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
Shamu Kills Trainer – A killer whale at the SeaWorld amusement park in central Florida killed a trainer on Wednesday, police and company executives said. “She was rubbing the killer whale’s head, and (it) grabbed her and pulled her in” to the pool, said Chuck Tompkins, Corporate Curator of Zoological Operations at SeaWorld Parks & [...]
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Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
Killer Whale – Witnesses said the 30-year-old, 12,300-pound bull orca named Tilikum, or Tilly for short, suddenly jumped out of the 35-foot-deep tank, grabbed the 40-year-old trainer around the waist and “thrashed her all around”. “He was thrashing her around pretty good,” Victoria Biniak, a guest at the park, told the local WKMG-TV. “It was [...]
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Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
Seaworld Orlando – A veteran SeaWorld trainer in Florida was attacked and killed by a whale Wednesday afternoon just as a public show was set to begin — and the same whale is linked to another death in B.C. SeaWorld spokesperson Fred Jacobs identified the whale that killed the 40-year-old trainer as spectators looked on [...]
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Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
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 [...]
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