February 2010 — SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was interacting with a killer whale called Tilikum before a live audience at SeaWorld Orlando when it pulled her from a platform by her arm and held her ...

Park has no plans to euthanize killer whale linked to deaths of 3 people. Feb. 25, 2010— -- SeaWorld has no plans to euthanize the killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death Wednesday, and ...

Tilikum was a male orca who almost lived his whole life in captivity. He was only two years old when authorities captured him in the waters off the coast of Iceland in 1983. At first, he lived in a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at ...

Dawn Brancheau, 40, lost her life in 2010 after Tilikum dragged her by ponytail The orca's troubled life in captivity was documented in 2013 Netflix hit, Blackfish READ MORE: 'Astonishing' moment an ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The former head trainer at SeaWorld spoke out Friday and said mistakes by trainer Dawn Brancheau led to her death. "It looks like to me she made a mistake," Thad Lacinik told WFTV. RAW ...

SeaWorld is fighting OSHA citations that may put its famous shows in jeopardy. Sept. 22, 2011 — -- SeaWorld Orlando and federal officials are sparring in a Florida courtroom this week over ...

SeaWorld whale trainer Dawn Brancheau cared for whales like family. “”She loved all of them,”” said Diane Gross, Brancheau’s sister. Brancheau had a passion for animals, so she surely didn’t expect ...

The death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau has been the catalyst for major changes in how the theme park handles its killer whales. The whale... SeaWorld's Orca Tilikum, Subject Of 'Blackfish' ...

COMMENT AT THIS TIME. MICHELE. ALL RIGHT, SUMMER, THANK YOU. TONIGHT, WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A WHALE AT SEAWORLD THAT LEFT A TRAINER WITH A BROKEN WRIST. THIS HAPPENED IN JUNE OF ...

Call it the “Blackfish effect,” shorthand for the fallout from the repeated airing on CNN of the 2013 anti-captivity documentary Blackfish.” The film used as its centerpiece the now deceased killer ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tilikum the orca has died after more than two decades at SeaWorld Orlando, where he gained notoriety for killing a trainer in 2010 and was later profiled in a documentary that ...