the situation with dawn brancheau didn t just happen. it s not a singular event. you have to go back over 20 years to understand this. it was a really exciting thing to do until everybody wanted to do it. what were they telling you you were going to do? capture orcas. they had aircraft, they had spotters, they had speedboats, they had bombs they were throwing in the water. they were lighting their bombs with acetylene torches in their boats and throwing them as fast as they could to herd the whales into coves. but the orcas had been caught before, and they knew what was going on, and they knew their
stay out of proximity with the animals and you won t get killed. it will have a ripple effect through the whole industry. this was national headline news. seaworld s whale performances may never be the same. right now the theme park is arguing in court to keep the whale trainers in the water. something osha says is extremely dangerous. these are wild animals and they are unpredictable because we don t speak whale. we don t speak whale, we don t speak tiger, we don t speak monkey. tempers flared between two sides today when osha s attorneys suggested seaworld only made changes after dawn brancheau s death outraged the public. osha doesn t want the trainers going back in the water without a physical barrier between them and the whales. being in close proximity to these top predators is too dangerous. they won t be getting in the water and riding on whales, things like that? if you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don t you think you d get a little irritated, aggravated,
the situation with dawn brancheau didn t just happen. it s not a singular event. you have to go back over 20 years to understand this. it was a really exciting thing to do until everybody wanted to do it. what were they telling you you were going to do? capture orcas. they had aircraft, they had spotters, they had speedboats, they had bombs they were throwing in the water. they were lighting their bombs with acetylene torches in their boats and throwing them as fast as they could to herd the whales into coves. but the orcas had been caught before, and they knew what was going on, and they knew their young ones would be taken from them.
if you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don t you think you would get a little irritated, aggravated, maybe a little psychotic? the situation with dawn brancheau didn t just happen. it s not a singular event. you have to go back over 20 years to understand this. it was a really exciting thing to do until everybody wanted to do it. what were they telling you you were going to do? capture orcas. they had aircraft, spotters, speedboats, they had bombs they were throwing in the water. they were lighting their bombs with torches in their boats and were throwing them as fast as they could to herd the whales into coves. but the orcas had been caught
the situation with dawn brancheau didn t just happen. it s not a singular event. you have to go back over 20 years to understand this. it was a really exciting thing to do until everybody wanted to do it. what were they telling you you were going to do? capture orcas. they had aircraft, spotters, speedboats, they had bombs they were throwing in the water. they were lighting their bombs with torches in their boats and were throwing them as fast as they could to herd the whales into coves. but the orcas had been caught before, and they knew what was