EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Whale Advocate Blames Sea World For Trainer's Death
Posted on Feb 24, 2010 @ 07:47PM
“What we’re looking at is negligence,” Captain Paul Watson told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview about the death of a female trainer at Sea World in Orlando.
The Canadian Whale Rights Advocate says both Sea World and Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia are to blame. Police say the famous orca killed 40 year old Dawn Brancheau at Sea World when she slipped and fell into his pool, but a witness said the whale actually grabbed her and shook her.
Sea World has shut down their parks in Orlando and San Diego.
The 30 year old whale, whose name is Tilikum, is the largest whale in captivity, and is responsible for two previous deaths.
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“They didn’t seem to learn any lessons from the incidents,” Captain Paul told RadarOnline.com from a satellite phone in the middle of the Antartic where he is on a whaling mission, “they knew it was capable of killing a human being.”
Sealand in Canada closed in 1991 after Tilikum and two other whales killed a part time trainer. Shortly thereafter he was sold to Sea World.
Watson, who met the whale in Canada, says he is surprised that more incidents don’t happen because the mammals are housed in tiny tanks and they are capable of tremendous strength. Tilikum weighs 12,300 pounds.
He says there are only two choices: either destroy the whale or send him back into the wild.
His suggestion: “Put it back where they got it from: the waters of Victoria, British Columbia.”
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may your memories of her bright smile and happy personality help you get through this hard time. god bless you and your families.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:37pm
This is such a horrible situation that happened. i pray for the family both relatives and family at work in their time of grief. she passed doing something she has loved since such a young age and she in in a better place now.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:37pm
you just want to leave them out there in the wild to suffer and get killed for other animals to feed when the animal can be saved. Please, shed some light on that and how that is actually ANIMAL RIGHTS.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:37pm
Is that what you so called animal rights activists want? do you really think that letting a sick or hurt animal just suffer and ignore them is really right either?
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:36pm
then by the time they are healed they have been in captivity for so long and had food just provided to them that they no longer know how to hunt they would only be hunted.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:35pm
most of these animals would not be alive now if it was not for being saved and nurtured back to health.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:35pm
i understand that they are wild animals and deserve to be in the wild but do you not realize that most of these animals were saved from the wild because they were injured or sick.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:34pm
i know for a fact that yes, they do perform daily but i also know that if the animal does not want to perform they do not make them.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:33pm
I have actually been to sea world orlando several times growing up.
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:33pm
Sorry did not mean to post multiple times
Posted Thu, 02/25/2010 - 10:34am