Dawn Brancheau Video SeaWorld's signature show — about a child who grows up to swim with the mighty orcas — was in many ways the story of the trainer drowned this week by one of the park's killer whales.
Dawn Brancheau Like the child portrayed in "Believe" at Shamu Stadium, Dawn Brancheau fell in love with the majestic mammals at a young age and went on to become a trainer at the world's most famous marine parks. Friends, relatives and colleagues recall her as a bright girl who dedicated herself to the animals she considered her own children.
"Her personality and disposition was just a magnet," said Robin Friday, a former curator of animal training at SeaWorld who hired Brancheau in 1994. "I can never think of a negative experience or time that I personally had or any employee had."
Brancheau, 40, was rubbing Tilikum after another noontime show, "Dine With Shamu," when the 22-foot, 12,000-pound creature grabbed her ponytail in its jaws and pulled her off a poolside platform. Tilikum was also one of three orcas blamed for killing a trainer in 1991 after the woman lost her balance and fell into a pool at a Sealand theme park near Victoria, British Columbia.
A former head trainer at SeaWorld who trained Brancheau, Thad Lacinak, said Friday he believed the attack was caused by a mistake she made by letting her ponytail drift in front of the killer whale.
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