Nonsense! /sarc
Killikum was sold to Seaworld under the proviso that he was a breeder only, and should not be used in shows.
Seaworld stretched that to mean no trainers in the water with him. They used him as the “show closer” who circles the tank and splashes the crowd. Trainers may not have been in the water with him, but they were in close contact with him.
“Hello?” Orcas pull seals off of beaches and ice floes to eat them.
The trainer’s family is going to sue Seaworld for millions, and they will settle and pay up.
The customers who witnessed this event will be the first to sue. Pain, suffering, distress, etc. I bet a lot of them are selling video to tabloids even as I type. Unless Seaworld has already paid them big bucks to hand over the footage.
TAG LINE FOR SALE
“If she were alive she would acknowledge it was her mistake”
In early 2000, I went TDY to Camp Astoria Oregon to help the OR National Guard prepare for a deployment to Bosnia. One morning, I went for a run along the beach and saw the head of a basking shark, about the size of an end table, washed up on shore. There was little doubt in my mind what had happened to the rest of it...