“This one’s just a mean sumbitch who has no business being around people.”
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I don’t know that he’s mean because it happened in San Diego (circa 1970’s) with a Shamu whale also. Shamu didn’t kill the girl trainer but he did grab her by the leg and drag her down to the bottom of the pool. He was just “playing” with her.
I don’t believe for a minute these whales are trying to kill these trainers. I think they are just showing their natural dominance and superiority in the water.
If the whales wanted to kill, they would bite and eat their victims and that’s not what happened in ANY of these cases.
I have always thought a simple way to prevent these events from ending in tragedy was for the trainers to wear a scuba tank, just in case the whale took them down too long.
Where is OSHA?