By Elizabeth Landau, CNN February 25, 2010 9:25 p.m. EST
SeaWorld animal trainer Dawn Brancheau died Wednesday after many traumatic injuries and drowning after a whale called Tilikum pulled her ponytail, and dragged her underwater at Shamu Stadium, in Orange County, Florida. This happened, because whales are not to be kept in captivity and this is a animal that weighs 2,000 pounds and can travel 100 nautical miles every day and putting them in a pool away from their families damages their brain. Tilikum, a whale, weighs about 12,000 pounds and is linked to others the deaths of other whales and trainers in 1991 and 1999, in SeaWorld in British Columbia, Canada. Whales are dangerous in captivity because of their big size. Annette Eckis Godsey was a victim of an accident in a 1972 accident, and because of that she had to have 200 stitches waist down. In the wild, these accidents never happen, so this tells us that these whale attacks aren’t natural.
My opinion is that whales should never, never be kept captive.
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