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>> visitors at sea world watched in horror as a six ton killer whale grabbed an orca. grabbed a veteran trainer and pulled her into the pool. victim was 40-year-old dawn brancheau. it turns out this whale had been linked to two previous deaths. so why was it still working at sea world? joining us right now is an expert in this field, russ rechter down in miami. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> you warned sea world about this particular orca a number of years ago. >> yes, november 4, 2007. >> what did you write to them? what did you tell them? >> well, i told them that they were ju...

Spoke with them this morning. the one thing i'm hearing from these folks that they were surprised about is to learn that indeed this specific orca whale was linked to two deaths previously before this one. witnesses say, apparently yesterday, before it killed a third time yesterday, the orca was acting strangely before that noontime show, was acting defiant and a bit ornery were the words were. back in 1991, he died kill a trainer at sealand in canada and in 1999 that same whale was blamed for the death of a man who snuck into sea world. he was found with -- sitting, laying on top of that whal...

This happened, apparently the orca was circling the tank and also people who saw that particular show commented that they didn't seem to be following their trainer's instructions that day and in fact, weren't following -- weren't doing what they were supposed to. >> that's not a good sign. that should tell the trainer that the animal is off its game that day. >> it's interesting, the orlando sentinel is reporting two different versions. somebody said that the woman bent over and was touching the orca on the nose and that's when he grabbed her and another report says that the orca jumped out an...

Captive animals and this one was a load gun waiting to go off. >> the other two incidents, he didn't know what he was doing. he was playing with the people. do you buy that? >> not a being -- >> whatever they had planned. believe me, this animal had planned this. this was not an accident. the first victim was not an accident. the second where he killed the man that stayed in the park was not an accident. >> the big question now, russ, is what should they do with that 12,000 pound orca? >> well, i don't know what they're going to do. i just know that if this had been a dog or big cat or a bear ...