The trainer was standing in a pool of knee high water when the killerwhale grabbed her by the hair/arm [I've seen two versions by two news sites], thrashed her about and then pulled her under the water, eventually drowning her.
The killer whale [Tillikum] who killed the trainer has also killed/been linked to the deaths of two other people.
One guy sneaked in past security and was found in Tillikum's pool, but they couldn't figure out if he'd fallen, jumped or been pulled. And Tillikum and two other killerwhales pulled another trainer under the water during a show.
Eventhough it's been aggressive in the past, Seaworld have/are keeping him because he wouldn't survive in the wild. Although now, they probably won't use him in shows.
It sounds awful, but I think that horrific as it is, these things happen. If you work with large, captive animals, you work with the risk that sometimes things go wrong. If I was a lion tamer, I may trust the lion not to maul me to death. But I wouldn't expect that accidents may not happen.
- Rexy
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ブルータスよ、我々がつまらない人間でいる責任は、
運にあるのではなく、自分達自身にあるのだ.
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