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 set up to do a dine with shamu performance with dawn. likely she saw what had gone on during the main show, and so she had probably felt more pressure to do a good show. when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there s a couple of behaviors she asked him to do where tilikum jumps right in and does exactly what she asks him to do. there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, so to speak. and my humble opinion, it was at that missed bridge whistle
gosh, do i love coming out here every day and having the audience just love what we re doing with the animals. how do i make this animal as beautiful as they are, having people walk away loving this animal. and they re touched and 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.
and when seaworld sent the orcas to loro parque, everybody was always questioning, like, how did they make that leap to send four young orcas to a park off the west coast of africa with trainers who a lot of them had never been around orcas before. nothing was ready. the venue wasn t ready. it wasn t ready for the orcas. it wasn t ready for a show. the owner of the park didn t want to lose revenue by shutting down the pools and repairing them. so for three years the animals ate the pools, and for three years, the animals had problems with their teeth and stomachs. so that s why the animals are enduring the endoscope procedures. those are still seaworld s animals, and they are responsible for those animals.
loro parque doesn t have a good reputation. people that work in the business know the reputation of places. and loro parque doesn t have a good reputation. they didn t spend the same amount of time as the seaworld trainers, didn t go through the same regimen the seaworld trainers went through. and alexis really was the best trainer. and i did say, i said, you re the only trainer there that can hold his own with a seaworld trainer. but i said, you know, you need to be careful. [ speaking foreign language ].
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 waterwork interaction. whoa! you big dork. especially our waterwork 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 operating. the whole show, the main show was a disaster that day.