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