tell you that that was her mistake in allowing that to happen. they blamed her. how dare you? how disrespectful for you to blame her when she s not even alive to defend herself. he grabbed her ponytail and pulled her in the water. that s as simple as it gets. there are photographs of plenty of other trainers doing exactly the same thing she was doing. so i knew that seaworld was lying about the fact that this was her fault. the ponytail in all likelihood is just a tale. the safety spotter apparently didn t see the takedown, came up with that. are you excited? during the spotter s testimony, osha pushed him to say that he wasn t really sure that it was her ponytail that was in the whale s mouth, that he just saw her underwater and assumed it was the ponytail. osha contends that the whale came up and grabbed on brancheau s arm.
held him at the bottom, let him go. picked him up, took him down again. and these periods he was taken down were pretty close to the mark. you know, a minute, a minute 20. when he was at the surface, he didn t panic. he didn t thrash. he didn t scream. maybe he s just built that way, but he stroked the whale. and the whale let go of one foot and grabbed the other.
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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. john selig is the guy who was in 1987 crushed between two whales at seaworld of san diego. now even though i had been working at seaworld for six months, i had no idea that had even happened. i never heard the story. and the seaworld party line would say it was a trainer error. it was john s fault. john s fault. he was supposed to get off that whale. and for years i believed that. i told people that.
environment. the crux of the case, stay out of the proximity of the animals and you won t get killed. it will have a ripple effect through the industry. this was national news. sea world whale performances may never be the same. right now the theme park is arguing in court to keep the whale trainers in the world, something osha says is extremely dangerous. these are wild animals and unpredictable because we don t speak whale. we don t spring whale, tiger, a we don t speak monkey. tempers flared when osha s attorneys suggested sea world only made changes after dawn brancheau s death. outrage 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 is too dangerous. they won t get on the water, riding, things like that? if you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don t you think you