By Tim Zimmermann
On February 24, 2010, Tilikum, the most important killer whale at SeaWorld, unexpectedly dragged sunrise Brancheau, his coach, into the pool and killed her. Journalist Tim Zimmermann got down to discover why. His riveting account of Tilikum's lifestyles, and the historical past of killer whale leisure at marine parks, dives into the realm of the ocean's best predator. It chronicles Tilikum's catch and separation from his relatives, and the actual and mental pressure he skilled in marine park swimming pools over a few 30 years. It explores Tilikum's involvement in earlier deaths. And it info the inherent hazards of utilizing captive killer whales for human leisure. eventually, Zimmermann explains how the lifetime of Tilikum got here to intend the demise of sunrise Brancheau.
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We wanted to make humans in the water so commonplace that it didn’t elicit any response. ” But SeaWorld faced the same vexing Catch-22 that had given Sealand pause. SeaWorld’s head trainer, Flaherty Clark, said that it was impossible to prove or disprove what might have happened if Tilikum had been desensitized. ” Instead, SeaWorld focused on creating roles for Tilikum that showcased his size and power when no trainers were in the water. The sight of him rocketing into the air awed the crowds.
Subsequently, Kasatka joined Tilikum and a couple of other unruly SeaWorld orcas on the “no water work” blacklist. Following the Peters incident, OSHA opened an investigation. ” SeaWorld challenged the report as filled with errors, and, under pressure, OSHA agreed to withdraw it. In late March 2010, a month after Brancheau’s death, I visited Orlando’s SeaWorld park for the first time. I paused to take in the sheer enormity of the place, with its hundreds of attractions, but there was just one thing I really wanted to see: a killer whale show.
The floor was quickly raised. Even then, Tilikum refused to give her up. Trainers were forced to pry his jaws open with a stick. When they pulled Brancheau free, part of her arm came off in his mouth. His jaw had to pried open again to retrieve it. Brancheau’s colleagues carried her to the pool deck and cut her wetsuit away. She had no heartbeat. The paramedics went to work with a defibrillator, but it was obvious she was gone. A sheet was pulled over her body. Tilikum had killed her. “Every safety protocol that we have failed,” SeaWorld director of animal training Kelly Flaherty Clark told me a month after the incident, her voice still tight with emotion.
