shamu eats trainer in front of audience
 

kinda.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/85237837.html

I'm going to swim with this highly intelligent 7000lb killing machine, what could go wrong??

that woulda been awesome

Staff note to the maintenence and feeding crew: the whale in tank 5 has already eaten. Expect whale shit with pieces of neoprene...

Wow... sending kids to therapy one whale at a time.

pics or vidz

Thought that was called a Fat Farm...

Killer Whale. Nuff said. He gets big respect from the other inmates for dropping a hack. Just wait till they find the shiv in the dolphin tank...

Sometimes you get the whale and sometimes the whale gets you.

I suspect its time to simply quit using whales in shows. obviously they dont enjoy it.

There has to be some video out there of this...but I can't find it.

So long.

Thanks for all the fish.

And by the way, fuck you.

JC

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Best book series ever.

That was dolphins dude.

Either way, he did it on porpoise.

nom nom nom

http://beermestrength.files.wordpres...7/12/shamu.jpg

Hey, that's the b**ch who doesn't tip!

Going from killing sharks and seals and shit, to literally jumping through hoops for an 8" fish.

Wally the Whale: "Hey Bob, I heard someone talking that the trainers are made of meat..."

Bob the Whale: "Nooooo shit."

cue the tree huggers

FUCKA YOO WHALE!

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fwNvIM2W9Aw/0.jpg

I am having a hard time feeling bad about this ordeal. Or the guy who got ate by grizzly bears, or any lion tamers that have ever been attacked....

Or motorcyclists who have been hit by cars turning into them, or skydivers with a twisted chute, or fighter pilots, and so on...

Just leave the animals alone and this shit will kinda not happen but I'm sure some dumbass will swim naked out into the ocean to pet flipper and get eaten by a blow fish.

this whale has been involved in two other deaths. In one, the whale killed the person, but in the other, they simply found the person draped over the whale and think the guy had simply drowned. So, this makes three deaths involving this whale...is there a 3 strikes and your out rule at SeaWorld?

This just in, 2 for 1 sushi special at Seaworld this Thursday...

Think maybe its his way of saying, 'i'd rather be out there?'

Seriously? What do you do? You take an amazing predator out of the ocean (or wild in the case of grizzly's) and put it in a cage, from no crime of its own, you cant really complain it kills people. It may as well, its got the life sentence already...

We can only hope to be as crafty if/when our own governments start caging us up without reason :lol:

This.

And this!!

I feel bad for the folks who saw it, and for those that loved her, but I gotta ask, what exactly has this poor whale been through? Rarely do animals attack unprovoked...body language, antagonism, poor training of a WILD creature. The fact that there were already 2 deaths attributed to this one tells me that they knew something was up with this poor critter. Time to rehab and retrain for the wild.

hahahhahahaha awarded best post of the thread

You mean 12,000lb killing machine.

Maybe the whale just wanted to play?:lol

"That son of a bitch killed my favorite trainer. Send in the fleet!"

http://www.twowheelfix.com/attachmen...1&d=1265212625

that is so wrong, and yet funny as hell. :lol

i was listening to bubba this morning and a guy came on with vader voice to talk about it. main points :
this whale is the biggest in captivity. 12000 lbs, not scared of shit.
it is used ONLY to breed with the females when they are in heat and to splash the audience.
he has killed 5 previous people, originally from canada. usually afterward they ship it to another park and give it another name.
everyone (staff) knows that this whale is very aggressive.
whenever the gates are open, bells and whistles are rung so that all trainers know that this aggressive whale is in the main tank, and to keep 3-5' away from the walls.

so basically , unfortunately, it was the trainers fault. she was on the dry dock platform talking to people and did not make the proper safety adjustments to get out or away from the tank. the whale slid up on the dock, bit her leg when she wasn't looking, and dragged her under. game over.

Pretty much what I was going to post...well except for the government caging us up part. :lol:

The point is that it is ironic and mindless for a motorcyclist to make fun of someone's death because they were taking a risk.

Everyone who lives a fun life does dangerous things. This trainer was one of their most experienced, had been doing this 16 years....some motorcyclists don't even live through their first month on the street, but when a fellow motorcyclist dies we don't say, "Well, dumbass had it coming, should've been driving an airbag laden SUV"

Some "dumbass" is usually the reason we know as much about the earth as we do, because they're willing to take chances and explore, despite a risk of death or injury. We shouldn't condemn or make fun of them, we should celebrate their efforts and mourn their passing. I know, I know, its the internet and guys have to look tough by making fun of dead people, I get it...its always been like that on forums. I'm just annoyed by a lack of independent and reasonable thought.

For the record, I don't think Killer Whales should be held in captivity unless they're not physically capable of surviving in the wild. It'd be like if people spent most of their waking time caged in a little cardboard cubicle staring at a screen....oh....wait....

So what do you do with a whale like that? Im sure if you let him go he'll just start picking off Canadian fishermen.

They do have ocean re-introduction programs for them, and apparently they do work very well. Whales are supposedly a lot more accepting than people :lol:

lolz

:lmao: :lmao:

so that would make him a serial killer whale right? :Lol:

Oh I feel guilty for laughing at that!!!!!!!! :lmao:


How many people do they get to kill before we put them down though? If a dog kills ONE person they are dead - this whale's killed at least 3, maybe 5 people???? :wtfru:

They wont put him down.

That would be crueller then him killing handlers. The whale didnt do anything wrong.

He should be set free, not trapped in a bathtub. Maybe if he kills more, they'll get the picture.

why put him down? I'm confused...

they will never put him down.
:wtfru:

Oh I agree about keeping them confined. But if they don't change something it's almost like they're giving him snacks... or toys.

This time they fed him a pretty lean, sexy piece of meat too. I was just looking at pictures of her. Whale was probably thinking the same thing as me. NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM!

Well that sucks. Not that ugly people deserve to die or anything..

No, but its preferable to hot people.

:lol

link?

Google?

The best I saw of her was a video of her doing a show with a whale. She had quite a body.

A St. Bernard wanted to play with me today. He tried to jump up on me. Glad I was able to move out of the way. Those that know me can understand the significance of a Bernie compared to me. :lol: I can't imagine a 12,000lb whale.

please, just say two tons. Just as impressive

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you

Know what would be really impressive?

Knowing that 12,000 lbs. is 6 tons. :lol:

JC

Isn't a net ton 2,000lbs? So it would be 6 tons. Very impressive, indeed.

ETA* Dammit!

even better :lol:

Ya, the little ones are 2 tons, lol.

fun dave fact: memory + numbers = no :lmao: you're welcome for the joke fodder though

win :lol:

So....You're like Rain Man.

Only, without the good at math part. :lol:

JC

They come with a goddamn warning - it's not like they're called Cuddle Whales for crying out loud.

That's a very good point.

Says right on it.

Maybe if they wore "I am a Motherfucker" t-shirts, people would get the gist.

JC

Then the poor whale wouldnt be able to take the bus anywhere.

If he was able to get to Frisco to score some weed, wetsuit girl would still be alive.

JC

But amberlamps mighta had one too many, and picked a fight with the whale for requesting a fin shine.

And he woulda got weed. Win, win.

Wetsuit girl had a fine body. Stupid whale.

to hell with the name, I figure the TEETH are a damn good indicator...

You are correct. Besides they are really called Orca anyway!

yeah, killer whale is just the affectionate nick name we've given them. :lol

just the sound of it makes you want to pet one.

Wait, you said ORCA.

My bad...

JC

:lol:

definately a good driver though, definately

bout the same weight :lol:

on the contrary, when he got the munchies he probably would have swallowed her whole :lol:

They should give him a Coast Guard job at Lake Erie instead of doing shows.

I like dolphins a lot and don't see the need to capture them when in the wild they are friendly enough to humans so that you can go up to them anyways. I remember reading that there has only been 1 or 2 documented cases of a Killer Whale killing a human in the wild. I'd feel safe being in the ocean and seeing a killer whale or any other kind of dolphin.

I went whale watching on Vancouver island in 03. We came upon a "super pod". There were easily 50 orca swimming around us. They looked so calm and docile. But, guess which guy didn't put his hands anywhere near the water?? :lol:

Ya, you'd think it'd be common sense.

Hey, this animal is only about 50 times my size (mathematicly), why dont I just jump into an undersized tank and play with it?

Imagine if 50 Orca's decided to 'play' with a whalewatching boat?

The guy that still has both his hands? :lol:

JC

I thought we established that Orcas don't like Canadians. Americans should be okay. Probably thanks to our navy ships dumping so much food into the ocean.

Found a cool vid where Shamu plays with a seal like it's a frisbee at a Dave Matthews concert
http://fliiby.com/file/9164/zi58x7zakg.html

Bad ass motherfuckers they are
http://fliiby.com/file/133041/jiglscy3x7.html

I've seen that vid a few times now, and it never ceases to impress me!

I've seen it before (infact posted in a thread a while back) but never saw the end where the seal was back up. I think in the Discovery version they did say they were training the young Orcas how to hunt. Very cool.

The coolest vid I've seen was where some Scuba divers for Discovery where below an ice pack with the Orcas and this one Orca had a grip on a seal and kept trying to give it to the Cameraman as a gift. It finally let go of the seal but was very neat to see how the Orca wanted to interact with the human.

Interesting story I heard at work the other day about dolphins is a guy's father was shot down in the ocean during the Korean war. He was safe in the ocean because Korea didn't have much of a navy but the land had troops. He was waiting for some American boats to come and then kept getting bumped by what he thought was a shark. It was actually a dolphin pushing him to shore. Of course the dolphin pushed him straight into enemy hands where he became a POW. He's not a fan of dolphins aparently.

:lol::lol:


http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...er/thisguy.jpg

this is why killer whales are the baddest mama jammas out there.

they even could kill bearshark.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...ideos/07504_00

I was snorkeling years and below us in the deeper part of the ocean was a huge school of barracuda!! :tremble:

cuda arent dangerous, unless you have lots of shiny jewelry

You have to love any fish that only eats rappers.

JC

thank you jebus for that glorious feat of design!

"so I let her lick the rapper..."-Lil Wayne

Video of the killing here:

http : // www . liveleak . com/view?i=06b_1267765340

Not real graphic, just a lot of splashing around and screaming.

somebody needs to add elton john's circle of life for some background music

She went for quite a ride.


When the video ended, I thought, 'Reminds me of the 500gp days'...

Wow... that wasn't just "grabbed her and pulled her under." That whale messed around with her like a cat and mouse plaything situation....

where were the rodeo clowns? They needed those annoying distracting clowns - and how DO you stop a giant animal like that? Is it more traumatic for the audience to watch a human being killed or a whale getting shot? tough choice...all I can think of it a giant net at the bottom of everything that hoists everything in the pool up out of the water in an emergency...but I'm not sure even that would have helped (or if there IS such a contraption)

Man. that just sucks. I mean, it sucked before. But that puts a spin on it. No pun intended at all.

He sure seemed able to tell when they were just about to save her and pull her out...he was having none of that .

man, that thing was like flopping all over her

Ya, the autopsy said she drowned, but im suprised she wasnt dead from massive injuries even before that happened. I mean damn, she was like a toy!

the problem is the size of the orca.
They do have sensitive ears, maybe find a frequency that causes them distress, and play that underwater.

The thing is, what happens to a stressed/distessed Orca?

Its quite possible stress was what made him flip out on wetsuit girl.

True, but it also might make him flee. Sounds have different effects on different animals.

After watching that video, he was not playing with her. he intended to kill her.

I wonder what kind of gun you would have to use. I'm betting that dolphin skin isn't exactly thin, since it can withstand freezing cold waters.

They should hire some Eskimos to bounce the the Orcas. They get too rough, then we send in the snow mexican mafia.

Thats what I got out of it too. He seemed to be pissed off. But, at the same time, they are apparently very rough when they play with eachother, and they are very social. So its possible that maybe he considered her a friend, and thats his way of playing???

I honestly dont know, and I agree with you, it seemed like he intended to end her. But professionals say that this is how they play, almost like wrestling.