Few people were better at it than top SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who, at forty, was blond, vivacious, and literally the poster girl for the marine park in Orlando, Florida, appearing on billboards around the city.
A family from New Hampshire visiting SeaWorld Orlando shoots a home video seconds before trainer Dawn Brancheau is killed in an attack by a killer whale named Tilikum.
In 2010, tragedy struck at SeaWorld Orlando when Dawn Brancheau lost her life in a gruesome attack by an orca she had worked with for years - and her final moments are nothing short of haunting.
Dawn Brancheau was a 40-year-old senior trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, and worked regularly with the animals, including one killer whale named Tilikum.
The autopsy determined that Dawn Brancheau died of blunt force trauma to the head, neck and torso, and drowning when the giant orca yanked her into SeaWorld's pool Feb. 24. The orca's was so violent with Brancheau that part of her scalp was "forcibly torn from the head," the autopsy said.
Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer at SeaWorld Adventure Park, shown performing on , was killed in an accident with a killer whale at the SeaWorld Shamu Stadium in Orlando,...
On , an animal trainer named Dawn Brancheau was killed during a routine performance with an orca at SeaWorld in Orlando. After that, the theme park never permitted people to go ...
Dawn Brancheau was killed while performing with an orca named Tilikum in Orlando on — and SeaWorld never allowed humans into tanks with killer whales ever again.
Nobody expected Dawn Brancheau - one of SeaWorld's most seasoned trainers - would be savagely killed by the whale she'd worked with and adored.
Dawn Brancheau was killed by Tilikum, a 5.4 tonne orca measuring more than 22ft in length, in a prolonged and violent attack in front of horrified onlookers at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida
On , an animal trainer named Dawn Brancheau was killed during a routine performance with an orca at SeaWorld in Orlando. After that, the theme park never permitted people to go into ...
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Distraught audience members were hustled out of the stadium, and the park was immediately closed. Veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was one of the park's most experienced. It wasn't clear if she ...
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