Killer Whale Kills Trainer During Live Show at Sea World-- What Happens Next?

Dawn did not "drown". She was killed by a very intelligent tortured animal who had had enough or innocently has no concept of what its actions mean to us. Ocean animal Theme parks are horrible hideous places where man kind exhibits grossly its insensitivity and ignorance. Putting one of these great, for crying out loud, OCEAN inhabiting creatures in one these tanks, with nothing but hard white walls to perceive (something they have no understanding of in nature, unlike us, I don't care how much we pat our selves in the back for making them larger than the ones before) is the equivalent of keeping a beta-fish in a cup of water or keeping a person in a small room for years. After this tragic event, and because of Dawn's fate, we ought to feel ashamed and head this alarming call by raising our level ofconsciousness and appreciation for life on our planet desperately. Instead of questioning whether this animal out to be put down or not, we should be making the effort of at least saying that man kind is not stubbornly stupid by releasing all whales and dolphins back to the sea; the only place where they live happily and healthy (since they too know health of mind); if we want to keep believing that we are what we seem to believe we are by the way we portray ourselves on fashion billboards and carcommercials . I do feel for the betrayal and fear Dawn must have felt during her last moments. But we betray these sublime creatures much more than we realize and are far from understanding what must be really going on in their minds. Theme Parks should become Centers for rescue and healing of wild animals since more that often very likely run into trouble because of problems that WE bring to their environment. I would suggest that the next time one of these "wild animal park" owners goes to a zoo or aquarium, they look through the eyes of a seal or a large feline and through their bars or deceitful confinements right back at them selves and see what they really are doing to a beautiful life.

If nothing else, I hope this opens eyes and hearts, unfortunately at the cost of the trainer's life. We're not learning anything about these magnificent creatures by seeing them swim in circles in captivity, in what to us, is a bathtub.

Nothing will happen to him. He is Seaworld's primary male breeding orca. The majority of the captive-bred orcas at seaworld are his offspring. Point is, he is too valuable an asset to them for him to go anywhere.

My bet is they'll end up killing the Orca, rather than, you know, setting it free into the wild where it belongs. I'm not really one of those "Save the whales" types, but Orcas are far too intelligent to live life as a circus act for humans.

I really hope they don't doo anything to that poor animal. A few years back an elephant at a circus got loose and killed her trainer in an attempt to get away, she was shot to death by police. This whale story reminded me of that