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Dec 24, 2020 · On Christmas Eve, 2009, trainer Alexis Martínez was attacked and killed by orca, Keto, at Loro Parque in Tenerife - the whale had spent the whole of his life in captivity
Nov 15, 2023 · A killer whale trainer died following a brutal attack that saw the mammal rip out his internal organs. Alexis Martínez was 29 when he died on Christmas Eve 2009 while training for his routine with Keto the orca at Loro Parque’s Orca Ocean in the Canary Islands.
Sep 20, 2022 · Last week, an orca named Kohana died at the age of 20 at Loro Parque in Tenerife, Spain. In the last 18 months, orcas Skyla and Ula also died. The former was aged 17 while the latter was two. Since 1961, when humans first started capturing orcas and using them for entertainment in marine parks, around 171 orcas have died in captivity, reports ...
Aug 6, 2022 · Alexis had started his career in 2004 when he bagged a job at Loro Parque in Tenerife - one of only two parks in Europe to house killer whales.. Two years later, the park loaned four orcas from ...
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As his expert 40-year-old trainer Dawn Brancheau leaned over the edge of his tank during what is called a “relationship session,” the 11-ton star orca Tilikum took her in his mouth, dragged her into the pool, shook her, fractured much of her body, drowned her, savaged her, and killed her. During the attack, he reportedly scalped her and bit ...
Apr 7, 2024 · NEWS. April 7, 24. Trainer’s horrific death as SeaWorld orca crushed him and ‘violently played with his body’. By VT. A SeaWorld trainer suffered a horrendous death at the hands of an orca that was born in captivity. Keto, a 6,600lb male, was the first orca to be born in a SeaWorld theme park. Born in 1995 to Kalina, the huge killer whale ...
Feb 25, 2010 · On Dec. 24, 29-year-old Alexis Martinez Hernandez fell from a whale and crushed his ribcage at Loro Parque on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Park communications director Patricia Delponti said ...
