On February 24, 2010, an animal trainer named Dawn Brancheau was killed during a routine performance with an orca at SeaWorld in Orlando. After that, the theme park never permitted people to go into ...
Tilikum was SeaWorld’s most famous orca — a massive captive whale who had already been linked to deadly incidents before the world truly knew his name. In 2010, after what seemed like a normal show in ...
ORLANDO Horrified visitors who had stuck around after a noontime show watched the animal charge through the pool with the trainer in its jaws. Workers used nets as an alarm sounded, but it was too ...
SeaWorld Orlando officials announced the death Sunday of a 50-year-old killer whale named Katina. “Her health had begun to significantly decline as she entered her geriatric years,” the theme park ...