Seaworld killer whale 'likely to kill trainer'
US investigators say it is only a matter of time before a whale trainer at SeaWorld in San Diego is killed.
California trainer Kenneth Peters was bitten and held underwater several times by the seven-thousand-pound killer whale during a show at Shamu Stadium on November 29th. He escaped with a broken foot and was in hospital for three days.
The Cal-OSHA report says Peters survived the attack because he stayed calm. But the report goes on to say that swimming with captive orcas “is inherently dangerous and if someone hasn’t been killed already it is only a matter of time before it does happen”.
A SeaWorld San Diego official disagreed with some of the report’s findings and said they reflected a lack of understanding of whale behaviour.
He denied that a trainer’s death was inevitable.
