A new low. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Two days after a killer whale killed a trainer at Orlando’s Sea World, the President and CEO of Sea World, Jim Atchinson, holds a news conference with the podium in front of the glass of a whale tank! As he’s talking no less than four are frolicking in the water behind him. It was distracting, thoughtless and it almost looked as if the whales were trying to nuzzle up behind him. The only thing that got in the way, inches thick glass. My pal Jim Braude of The Braude Beat on NECN went nuts about it. Watch here.
There’s a time and a place for everything. What was this man thinking? Jim Atchinson was certainly sorry for what happened to 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau, and he struck the right tone in mourning her loss.
Courtesy: Orlando Sentinal, Julie Fletcher
But to announce Sea World is reopening its killer whale exhibits three days after the trainer was dragged and drowned underwater, I don’t like the timing. And I definitely didn’t like the place where the message was delivered.
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