that time was that dolphins are a lot bigger than they look when you get in the water next to them. well, i watched this sea lion and otter show and this guy mike moracco, he comes out during the show with a dress on as dorky in a dress with the sea lion, the coward sea lion and walking along with a basket. i thought i will never ever do that, you know. two months later, hi, i m dorky. walking out on stage with the sea lion. i was overwhelmed and i was so excited. i mean, just seeing a killer whale is breathtaking. i was just in awe. it s shocking to see how large they are and how beautiful they are. being, you know, in the
how do i make this animal as beautiful as they are and have people walk away loving this animal. and they re touched and they re moved. and i feel like i made a difference to them. i left in january of 2010, a month before dawn passed away. she was, like, a safety guru. i mean, she was always double checking and making sure that everyone was doing the right thing. so i remember she would record every show that she did and she would watch it and critique herself. and she was constantly trying to be better. when i found out it was dawn, i was shocked. that could have been me. i could have been the spotter. what if i was there and i could have saved her? you know, all these things go through your mind.
this whale and what they told us seemed to be two different things. the first day he arrived, i remember one of the senior trainers at seaworld, tilikum was in a pool and she was walking over a gate and she had her wet suit unzipped tied around her waist and making cooing noises and going hey, tilikum. what a cute whale and play talking at him and one of the supervisors said get her out of there, and just screamed at her like get her away from there. like they were so worried something would happen and i remember thinking, why are you guys making such a big deal out of this when he didn t actually kill her? well, clearly management thought there was some reason to exercise caution around him. clearly, they knew more than they were telling us. ladies and gentlemen, the next to be seen you can only see right here at seaworld. jeff was out in the audience filming one of the shamu shows. it was a perfect show. all the hot dog sequences, water sequences went off great.
that s why all our interactions are very carefully thought out. especially our water work interaction. whoa! [ applause ] you big, dork. especially our water work interactions because they re potentially the most dangerous. i ve been expecting it since the second person was killed. i ve been expecting somebody to be killed by tilikum. i m surprised it took as long as it did. first tonight, a six ton killer whale has lived up to his name, killing an experienced trainer at seaworld orlando today. a tourist at an earlier show said the animal seemed agitated. trainers complained the whales weren t cooperating. the whole show, the main show was a disaster that day. there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided that they had to stop the show because they couldn t get the whales under control. tilikum was in the back pool
as trainers, we never forget shamu s true potential. we see it each and every day. that s why all our interactions are very carefully thought out. especially our water work interaction. whoa! [ applause ] you big, dork. especially our water work interactions because they re potentially the most dangerous. i ve been expecting it since the second person was killed. i ve been expecting somebody to be killed by tilikum. i m surprised it took as long as it did. first tonight, a six ton killer whale has lived up to his name, killing an experienced trainer at seaworld orlando today. a tourist at an earlier show said the animal seemed agitated. trainers complained the whales weren t cooperating. the whole show, the main show was a disaster that day. there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided that they had to stop