Please see the documentary Blackfish. Tilikum had killed 2 other trainers in other parks, and Sea World Orlando did not give this info to their trainers, including Dawn.
It will absolutely change your mind on whether killer whales should be kept in captivity. I suspect within two generations, we will look back with disgust and say, What were we thinking?
But they’re so Cute and they’re Black and White just like Obama. They should put an Orca on the Obamacare Death Panel.