One minute, Dawn Brancheau, a 40-year-old trainer at SeaWorld Orlando was walking around the outside of the tank, explaining facts about whales to a rapt audience. The next, she was being thrashed from side to side violently by a whale called Telly, short for Tilikum. Given the whale is 13,500 pounds, there wasn’t much that could be done to save Brancheau’s life. She died in one of the most horrific accidents in SeaWorld history. The saddest thing is that this should never have been allowed.
If you believe the news reports, Tilikum has killed before. Is it really that surprising that he’d kill again? In 1991, Telly was one of three whales at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, that killed a trainer. In 1999, 27-year-old Daniel Dukes was found dead in Telly’s tank at SeaWorld in Orlando. The official cause of Dukes was drowning, but he was bitten by the whale either before or after his death.
Given the situation, I think it’s time that Telly either finds himself set free in the ocean or turned into fish sticks. If he was a person, he’d still be in prison (probably on death row) by now. Otherwise, he’ll kill again.
Dawn Brancheau was a well known whale trainer. She was working in Sharmu Stadiom in Sea World and killed by a Whale.
This incident happened 2:00 PM, when she was preparing for live performance in the front of crowd.
While she was walking near the tank, she slipped, Whale grabbed her body and pulled her into the deep water.
Jim Solomon’s Spokesperson for the Orange Country Sheriff’s Department conducted a press meet at 4:30 and officially declared about her death.
In 1999, a nude dead body was found in Tilly’s tank. In 1991 Tilikum killed his traine during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia.
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