Posted on 02/28/2010 12:05:44 AM PST by JoeProBono
Amateur footage captures trainer Dawn Brancheau performing tricks with a killer whale minutes before it attacked and killed her at SeaWorld in Florida. Dawn Brancheau, 40, died after the orca known as Tilikum grabbed her from a poolside platform and dragged her underwater.
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There was another [home/cellphone] video that showed up a few days ago. It was about 6 minutes long and ended (edit?) just seconds before Tilly grabbed the trainer’s hair and pulled her underwater.
It contradicted the SW officials who said the trainer was not in the water. Even yesterday, another SW official said she was ‘on a shelf that only had about 4” of water’. The video contradicted that, too.
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On post on FR in one of the early threads indicated that the trainers were allowed to swim with all the whales, EXCEPT for Tilly. [The video showed this trainer in the water with Tilly just moments before she was pulled under the water.]
>>”Amateur footage captures killer whale prior to attack”
If THIS video is “amature footage,” it was professionally edited. At least four camera angles were involved. They may not have been taken on the same day. Intended to mislead
Although I have no dog in the fight, there are two variants of the story:
1. standing on the land, grabbed around the waist.
2. in the water with the orca, grabbed by the pony tail and/or head.
It matters not to me, which; I don't plan to look any further to find out. What I was decrying (perhaps unnecessarily) is that the media tells a story AS TRUE, that they either know nothing about, lie about, cobble together “amateur videos” about, or tell two (or more) versions that are completely incompatible.
Love of the truth is not in them.
DG
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