TitanBrett
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2009
That's quite a bit different than saying it would be "refreshing" to hear that the orca did it on purpose.
Generally speaking, debates in the immediate aftermath of something like this (particularly when no one knows the facts) are nothing more than knee-jerk, emotional responses that rarely yield productive results. The fact of the matter is that these and other marine mammals are going to continue to be used for entertainment purposes. If this is nothing more than a case of her hair becoming entangled in his mouth, then there are probably a few minor protocols that would need modifying in order to help prevent something like the from happening again.
By refreshing I mean it would be nice for them to not spin the event into some sort of "bad luck" happenstance. nobody is ever going to know what was in the mind of that whale and if Sea World's official story becomes "death by ponytail" I'm going to be disappointed in them. I think it should be stressed by Sea World that hopefully this was horseplay gone awry but we will never know for sure and that these whales have feelings and emotions both positive and negative. tbo.com was reporting earlier that the whale had to be lured into that pen and raised out of the water before they could retrieve the trainer's body. That doesnt sound like merely a snagged pony tail to me.