SeaWorld has lost its legal battle to overturn a federal safety violation in the 2010 death of Orlando orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, and was roundly defeated in its attempt to vacate OSHA-mandated measures to protect the safety of trainers.
AP | Posted 11.22.2011
SANFORD, Fla. — The killer whale that dragged a SeaWorld trainer into a pool and drowned her last year was possessive of objects, and trainers w...
AP | Posted 11.21.2011
SANFORD, Fla. -- Government attorneys say SeaWorld Orlando has incomplete records about aggressive whale behavior. An attorney for the federal job sa...
AP | KYLE HIGHTOWER | Posted 11.20.2011
SANFORD, Fla. — Government attorneys declined to show video of a SeaWorld trainer being drowned by a killer whale during a hearing Tuesday over ...
David Kirby | Posted 11.19.2011
On Thursday, a federal judge ruled against the husband and family of Dawn Brancheau, the trainer who died in February 2010 at SeaWorld.
Tim Zimmermann | Posted 09.18.2011
Dawn Brancheau was the first SeaWorld trainer killed by a killer whale. But she wasn't the first trainer killed by a SeaWorld killer whale.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld officials say trainers will get back into the tanks with killer whales for the first time since one of their colleagues...
David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no possible rationale for closing these hearings and sealing the record, other than to protect a multibillion dollar corporation from airing its laundry before the public and press.
Tim Zimmermann | Posted 05.25.2011
It's not very shocking to think that life in marine park pools is not very good for large, intelligent mammals, used to a tight family social structure and the wide expanses of the open ocean. But there's more worth knowing than that.
Tim Zimmermann | Posted 05.25.2011
Like Aaron Sorkin's scathing takedown of Sarah Palin and her showy slaughter of a caribou, there are serious questions beneath the celebrity rubbernecking.
David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011
A former human resources director has come forward with her own allegations of obstruction and "stonewalling" during OSHA's official inquiry. The charges and counter-charges are messy.
Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 05.25.2011
Now, right here in America, some people have imprisoned a dog inside a box barely bigger than his own body. He has been locked in the box for months. Why, you may ask, aren't these people in jail?
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
No human being has ever been seriously injured or killed by an orca in the wild, but four people have died and dozens have been injured, some very seriously, by captive orcas.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Tomorrow morning my colleague Naomi Rose, Ph.D., and a number of other experts will testify before a House subcommittee about the ethical and legal is...
Leilani Münter | Posted 05.25.2011
With dead dolphins washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn't it be great if you knew you could help save a few? Thirteen, to be exact.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
It was because of Dawn's life-long devotion to trying to understand the animals with which we share our planet that thousands of families were able to get close to these marvelous creatures.
Posted 05.25.2011
Shamu's Twitter musings are no more. The suspension of the tweeting killer whale's Twitter account comes shortly after the death of Sea World trainer...
Peter Christian Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
Philip Hoare pays eloquent tribute to the beauty, power, and history of the sea's mightiest creatures. Can readers who have discovered the elegance and mystery of whales ever again enjoy a seaquarium?
AP | By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 05.25.2011
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BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal, the survival and well being of the animal may be severely impacted in d...
AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 05.25.2011
ORLANDO, Fla. — A SeaWorld killer whale snatched a trainer from a poolside platform Wednesday in its jaws and thrashed the woman around underwat...
David Kirby | Posted 05.31.2012