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AERIALS OF SEA WORLD / PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING / AFFILIATE SU INTERRUPRTIONS / MOS One person is dead at SeaWorld's Stadium, following an incident this afternoon, an Orange County Sheriff's Office official confirmed. Orange County Fire Rescue responded to SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium this afternoon on report of a person who was not breathing. Details about the incident are not yet available, but a Sheriff's Office official confirmed it is a death investigation. A local TV station is reporting that a female trainer was killed after she was grabbed by one of the theme park's whales at the start of a public show. Park guest Victoria Biniak told Local 6 that the trainer was a veteran of SeaWorld and had just finished explaining to the audience the show they were about to see. At that point, Biniak said, the whale came up from the water, grabbed the trainer around the waist and "thrashed her all around" to the point the trainer's shoe fell off. Guests were evacuated and were later told the park was shut down, Biniak told Local 6. Rescue personnel were called to the theme park at 2 p.m. Calls to SeaWorld and Orange County Fire Rescue were not immediately returned. The Sheriff's Office is en route. ----------------------------------- LATER NEWS: SEA WORLD TRAINER KILLED: Sea World officials in Orlando, Florida say the death of one of its trainers today by a killer whale appears to be an accident. Eyewitnesses said 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau, an experienced trainer, was finishing up a session with the whale when it grabbed her with his jaws and thrashed around underwater. The whale, John Berman reported on WORLD NEWS, was "30-year-old Tilikum, or Tilli, a 6 ton bull who has killed before.a trainer in Canada in 1991 and in 1999 a man was found in his tank in Sea World with bite marks. Tilikum was typically kept alone because of his aggressive nature." Sea World said it is investigating the incident. Today the park closed its killer whale exhibits in Orlando and San Diego; the exhibit in Orlando will be closed until at least Friday.
Footage Information
Source | ABCNEWS VideoSource |
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Direct Link: | View details on ABCNEWS VideoSource site |
Title: | SEA WORLD AERIALS |
Date: | 02/24/2010 |
Library: | ABC |
Tape Number: | NYU23212 |
Content: | AERIALS OF SEA WORLD / PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING / AFFILIATE SU INTERRUPRTIONS / MOS One person is dead at SeaWorld's Stadium, following an incident this afternoon, an Orange County Sheriff's Office official confirmed. Orange County Fire Rescue responded to SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium this afternoon on report of a person who was not breathing. Details about the incident are not yet available, but a Sheriff's Office official confirmed it is a death investigation. A local TV station is reporting that a female trainer was killed after she was grabbed by one of the theme park's whales at the start of a public show. Park guest Victoria Biniak told Local 6 that the trainer was a veteran of SeaWorld and had just finished explaining to the audience the show they were about to see. At that point, Biniak said, the whale came up from the water, grabbed the trainer around the waist and "thrashed her all around" to the point the trainer's shoe fell off. Guests were evacuated and were later told the park was shut down, Biniak told Local 6. Rescue personnel were called to the theme park at 2 p.m. Calls to SeaWorld and Orange County Fire Rescue were not immediately returned. The Sheriff's Office is en route. ----------------------------------- LATER NEWS: SEA WORLD TRAINER KILLED: Sea World officials in Orlando, Florida say the death of one of its trainers today by a killer whale appears to be an accident. Eyewitnesses said 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau, an experienced trainer, was finishing up a session with the whale when it grabbed her with his jaws and thrashed around underwater. The whale, John Berman reported on WORLD NEWS, was "30-year-old Tilikum, or Tilli, a 6 ton bull who has killed before.a trainer in Canada in 1991 and in 1999 a man was found in his tank in Sea World with bite marks. Tilikum was typically kept alone because of his aggressive nature." Sea World said it is investigating the incident. Today the park closed its killer whale exhibits in Orlando and San Diego; the exhibit in Orlando will be closed until at least Friday. |
Media Type: | Archived Unity File |