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>> you big dork! especially our wart work interactions, because they're potentially the most dangerous. >> i've been expecting it since the second person was killed. i've been expecting somebody to be killed by tilikum. i'm surprised it took as long as it did. >> first tonight, a six-ton killer whale has lived up to its name, killing an experienced trainer at seaworld orlando today. >> a tourist at an earlier show said the animal seemed agitated. trainers complained the whales weren't cooperating. >> the whole show, the main show, was a disaster that day. >> there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided they had to stop the show because they couldn't get the whales under control. >> tilikum was in the back pool, set up to do a dine with shamu performance with dawn. >> likely she saw what had gone on during the main show. she probably felt more pressured to do a good show. >> when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there's a couple of behaviors that she asks him to do where tilikum just jumps right in and he does exactly what she asks him to do. >> there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, to so speak. and in my humble opinion it was at that missed bridge, whistle bridge on the perimeter peck wave. >> she asked him to do a perimeter pec wave where she asks him to basically go all the way around the pool and wave his pectoral flipper. and she blows her whistle, which is a bridge, which tells the animal that okay, you've done a good job, come back and get food. but he missed that cue. and he went all the way around the pool on this perimeter pec wave. >> my interpretation is that he didn't hear the whis gel so not only did he not hear the bridge, then he went and did a perfect behavior and came back, and what he got was what we call a three second choice which is the way to let the animal know, no, you didn't do the correct thing. you're not going to get rewarded. then we're going to move on you. can also see through the video that dawn is running out of food. >> the animals can sent when you're getting to the bottom of your bucket of fish because they can hear the ice clanging around and the kind of fishy, soupy water at the bottom. and the handfuls of fish they're getting delivered by the trainer are all getting smaller. so they know that they're coming down to the end of session. >> when you see the difference between the beginning of the video and the end of the video, you can see that he's just not quite on his game anymore. >> there's no food left. she kept asking him for more and more behaviors. he wasn't getting reinforced for the behaviors that he was doing correctly. he probably was frustrated towards the end. >> then she walked around the perimeter of g pool. he followed her. and then continued over into the rocky ledge area where she laid down with him to do a relationship session, which is -- it's quiet time, basically. tilikum at some point grabbed ahold of her left forearm and started to drag her. and eventually did a barrel roll and pulled her in may have started as play or frustration, and clearly escalated to be very violent behavior that i think was anything but play. in the end, he basically just completely mutilated that poor girl. >> they were gathering all the trainers at the texas park. he said, there's been an accident at the florida park, and a trainer was killed. hearing that it was dawn, i was -- i couldn't believe it. i just remember saying to myself, not dawn. it can't be dawn. he said that -- and he still has her. and i just was so disturbed by that and the reality of how powerless we are. >> laceration, abrasion, fractures, frarkss associated hemorrhages, blunt force traumas to the main body, to extremities. to see this meted out against a trainer. and i cannot fathom the reason. it's shocking. >> a lawyer for osha asked me what i thought we'd learned. and i'm sitting in the courtroom, and i've got the kelty burn case file in one hand and dawn branscho almost 20 years apart. my answer was not a thing. they've not learned a damn thing for that thing to happen 20 years apart. britta olsen is my . i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. 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