to her really could have happened to anyone. this is detective rivera with the orange county sheriff s office. today is february 24th, 2010. in the room with me is thomas george tobin, is that correct? correct. did you see any blood in the water or anything like that? she was scalped, and there was no blood. okay. so pretty much we knew then the heart wasn t beating. once they were able to pull her away, how did he let go? he didn t. he never let go of the of the arm. he swallowed it. so the arm is nowhere right. on behalf of the federal government, he is basically suggesting that swimming with orcas is dangerous and you can t predict the outcome when you enter the water or their
he was near to the end. presumably ken peters had a relationship with this whale. maybe he did. maybe that s what saved him, but peters got the whale to let him go. and they strung a net across, and ken peters pulled himself over the float line, and swam like a demon to a slide out because the whale was coming right behind him. the whale jumped over it and kept right after him. he tried to stand up and run but his feet were damaged. he scrambled. and they take this as a prime example of their training working. and they say stand back and stay calm. and that did work.
it was sea world by name that was told do not come back to washington to capture whales. without missing a beat, they went from washington to iceland and began capturing there. part of revolution and two change of presidents in central and south america and seen some things that it s hard to believe, but this is the worst thing that i ve ever done is hunt that whale. no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself.
did this female trainer work with this whale on a regular basis? i don t know. apparently what happened is we had a female trainer back in the whale holding area. she apparently slipped or fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales. at first seaworld reported a trainer slipped and fell in the water and drowned. that was the first report. it wasn t until eyewitness reports disputed that they they huddled and came up with a new plan. a whale pulled a woman into the water. she didn t fall into the tank as the sheriff s department initially reported. the new plan is that he grabbed her ponytail. this is a subtle way of placing the blame on dawn s shoulders. she shouldn t have had the ponytail. dawn, if she was standing here with me right now would
being, you know, in the presence of the killer whales was just inspiring and amazing and i remember seeing them for the first time, not just being able to believe how huge they were. you re there because you want to train killer whales and that s your goal. i didn t know it was going to happen, so i wasn t expecting it and one day they say okay, sam, you re ready to go. you re going to stand on the whale, you re going to dive off the whale. the whale will swim under you and pick you up again and you ll do a perimeter ride around the pool. they just told me to go do it and i did it. wow, i did i just rode a killer whale. when you look into their eyes, you know somebody is home. somebody is looking back. you form a very personal