During a family vacation to Orlando, she set her heart on becoming an orca trainer. When the alarm sounded, one of SeaWorld's surveillance videos focused on the pool captured Brancheau, 40, as she briefly broke free from the killer whale. What happened next would shock the audience - and the world. [8], Subsequently, in late May 2012, Judge Ken S. Welsch formally sided with OSHA over SeaWorld's orca safety practices. Why did the marine park wait for 27 minutes to call for paramedics after Tilikum pulled Brancheau into the water? An autopsy found numerous wounds, contusions, and abrasions covering his body that were caused by Tilikum. But her autopsy report was truly harrowing, Don't miss a thing! New in the final report was: A synopsis of. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Tilikum remains at SeaWorld Orlando. The gory details of Dawn Brancheau's death in the jaws of a killer whale are not for the faint of heart. Her spinal cord was severed, and she had sustained fractures to her jawbone, ribs, and a cervical vertebra. An alarm sounded and staff rushed the audience out of the stadium as workers scrambled around with nets while others called authorities. Terms for automated texts/calls from PETA: http://peta.vg/txt. One of her SeaWorld colleagues is certain she "loved" the 12,000-pound orca and that he loved her back. Stacy Nichols was working on the Dine with Shamu show when she observed Tilikum do a "deep dive" to the bottom of the tank with a trainer in his mouth. The report states that Brancheau was horribly bruised, cut, and scraped, with her left elbow and knee being dislocated, along with multiple broken bones, including her ribs, jaw and neck. It does work. The autopsy determined that Dawn Brancheau died of blunt force trauma to the head, neck and torso, and drowning when the giant orca yanked her into SeaWorld's pool Feb. 24. The animal attack was deemed accidental. In the same statement, they went on to note that Dawn would not have remained a trainer at SeaWorld for 15 years if she felt that the whales were not well cared for.[49], Brancheau's death has been seen as a factor in starting a trajectory of recalibration for SeaWorld. WARNING: Graphic content. A report into Dawn's death by the Sheriff's Office refers to an . In response, SeaWorlds vice president for animal training criticized their actions in a two-page document claiming that the show should not have been ended early because it brought unnecessary attention to the incident. Wearing only his underwear, Dukes jumped, fell or was pulled into the frigid water of Tilikum's huge tank. Dawn Brancheau Autopsy Report Uploaded by Tim Zimmermann Description: The Orange County Medical Examiner's Autopsy Report on Dawn Brancheau Copyright: Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC) Available Formats Download as PDF or read online from Scribd Flag for inappropriate content Save 45% 55% Embed Share Print Download now of 8 Related Interests Colleagues were horrified, shocked and baffled by her death. SeaWorld Orlando spokeswoman Becca Bides said the park did not have any comment on the autopsy. She died of drowning and blunt-force trauma, according to the medical examiner, who ruled the death an accident. Dawn Brancheau - Autopsy Reports of Celebrities and Other Famous . [4], Brancheau spent two years working with dolphins at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey before beginning her career at SeaWorld Orlando in 1994, initially working with otters and sea lions. Was the park using this time to remove witnesses whose accounts didnt match the story that SeaWorld was trying to create to make it seem as if her ponytail had triggered Tilikums reaction? In one case, trainers ended a show after an orca began to ignore signals, swim rapidly, and grab at one of the trainers arms. Eventually they enticed him in to a smaller medical pool where he eventually let go of her body. Dawn, an experienced SeaWorld trainer, died of 'drowning and traumatic injuries' after she was mauled by Tilikum, a 5.4 tonne orca measuring more than 22ft in length. 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The autopsy was released as SeaWorld and Brancheau's family await a court ruling on their request to keep private a video of the fatal attack. This was cause enough for him to turn around to push the alarm button. Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at SeaWorld Adventure Park who died in a savage attack by one of the park's killer whales in Februaary, is shown while performing in 2005. [33], On August 23, 2010, SeaWorld was fined US$75,000 by OSHA for three safety violations, one directly related to Brancheau's death. It took nearly two hours to retrieve her body. PETA Leads the Charge: Inside the Global Effort to Take Down Exotic Skins, Challenge of Monterey Zoos Alleged Violation of Californias Bullhook Ban to Proceed, Step Away From the Birkin Bag! Employees used nets and threw food in the water in an attempt to distract him. He was swimming manically, only coming to the surface long enough to breathe before diving again. She also dislocated her left elbow and left ear. At just 2 years old, he was torn from his mother and their ocean home and sent to the rundown marine park Sealand of the Pacific. News organizations tried to obtain these media items as records in public custody, but her family expressed privacy considerations and sought to limit "voyeuristic gawking". Actress: Animal Action. [5] As a senior trainer, she appeared in various SeaWorld public performances for many years. 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Her left elbow and left knee were dislocated. Perhaps most importantly, why did SeaWorlds then-owner try to blame his own orca trainer for her deatheven after the OSHA investigation uncovered that the same safety measures and recall signals that had failed to prevent Dawn Brancheaus death had been failing for years? Food was withheld from him as a training technique, and he endured attacks from the two dominant female orcas, whom he was forced to live with. CLOUDE, FL FORMERLY OF CEDAR LAKE Dawn Therese Brancheau (nee Lo Verde), 40, of St.