ONE of SeaWorld California’s most notorious captive killer whales once fractured a young woman’s neck and tried to drown another trainer by dragging them to the bottom of her tank. In j… ...

Debate over the treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld parks heated up after trainer Dawn Brancheau died in 2010. She was pulled into the water by Tilikum, a 12,000-pound killer whale.

The whale, along with two female killer whales drowned Keltie Byrne, a trainer, in 1991 at a British Columbia park. And in 1999, Tilikum killed a man who had sneaked into the SeaWorld tank after ...

On Feb. 24, 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was interacting with Tilikum, a killer whale, before a live audience in a pool at Shamu Stadium in Orlando when Tilikum grabbed her and pulled her ...

A SeaWorld trainer tosses a fish to a killer whale during the first show after a trainer was killed by an orca at the theme park three days earlier in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.

A SeaWorld spokesperson previously said that there's been no more incidents since they made the changes in 2010 preventing people from performing with the orcas.

Feb. 26, 2010— -- SeaWorld will resume killer whale shows Saturday, three days after the show's largest orca dragged a trainer underwater and killed her, the park's president said today.

SeaWorld continued to defend its safety record Wednesday in front of a federal judge in Seminole County.In the wake of the death of whale trainer Dawn Brancheau in February 2010, the Occupational ...

One of the Orcas at SeaWorld in San Diego has been filmed seeminlgy attacking another Orca sharing its tank. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights group, shared the ...

Kamea, an 11-year-old female, was part of the last generation of orcas to live in captivity at the theme park.