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A WOMAN who was savaged by Shamu the SeaWorld orca has revealed what it was really like when the killer whale tried to drown her. Anne Godsey found herself jammed between the jaws of the two-tonne ...
As SeaWorld announces it is phasing out its killer whale shows, Newsbeat looks back at 50 years of Shamu.
39-year-old trainer is injured after Shamu the Killer Whale pulls him underwater twice by grabbing his feet during a performance at the SeaWorld Adventure Park.
Shamu is big business at SeaWorld, which owns more killer whales than anyone else in the world and builds the orca image into its multimillion-dollar brand, and the killing of a trainer this week ...
SeaWorld pulled all trainers out of its orca pools after the February 2010, death of Dawn Brancheau, a SeaWorld Orlando trainer who was killed by a 6-ton orca named Tilikum.
Whether the iconic killer whale images survive remains to be seen. Shamu already started fading from view when Southwest Airlines dropped its marketing partnership with SeaWorld in 2014.
SeaWorld has made headlines several times in the past decade: trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a captive orca during a live show in 2010, and a 2013 documentary focused intense scrutiny on the ...
The killer whales then, in some instances, take out those emotions on other whales, which doesn't happen in the wild as much. The documentary argues that trainers are also in danger of being hurt.
Shamu shows will resume Saturday, three days after a six-ton bull orca dragged Dawn Brancheau underwater to her death at the end of a show in Orlando, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment President ...
Music up. A symphonic score fills the former Shamu Stadium at SeaWorld, the tempo building suspense as footage of an icy landscape in Antarctica moves across a 140-foot wide screen. “Get ready ...
Shamu was a captive orca that appeared in shows at SeaWorld San Diego in the mid/late 1960s. It was during a "Dine with Shamu" session that Tilikum killed Brancheau—the trainer who was with him ...