SeaWorld killer whale attacks trainer: latest in string of deaths

Published: 7:47AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

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Dawn Brancheau, 40, was killed after the 30-year-old, 12,300-pound longhorn orca declared Tilikum, jumped out of a tank, grabbed her around the waist and pulled her underwater.

Her genocide is the ultimate in a fibre of fatalities involving experienced animal trainers and wildlife experts.

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December 2009: Alexis Martinez Hernandez, 29, a wildlife trainer, fell from a whale and dejected his rib enclosure at Loro Parque on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Park officials pronounced the whale, a 14-year-old declared Keto, done an surprising move as the span rehearsed a attempt in that the whale rises the tutor and leaps in to the air.

October 2009: Anton Turner, a British safari guide, was killed when he was charged down by an elephant during filming of a BBC childrens programme in Tanzania. The 38-year-old had been aiding a radio organisation in sharpened an part of the CBBC array Serious Explorers, that traces the footsteps of path-finder David Livingstone in Africa. Friends described him as "one of the majority experienced" people with elephants in the world.

April 2008: Stephan Miller, an American animal tutor and Hollywood attempt double, died after he was mauled by a five-year old having grey hair bear declared Rocky in San Bernardino, California. The 7ft6ins, 50 mill animal bit Miller once on the behind of the neck. Miller, 39, the owners and owners of Predators in Action a association that trains wild animals for movie and radio appearances died roughly instantly. Rocky has appeared in the Hollywood movie Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell.

April 2007: A tutor was killed and some-more than twenty onlookers harmed when an elephant went on the uproar at a rite legal holiday in the south Indian state of Kerala. The man was picked up by the elephant, called Vinayan, utilizing the trunk, and trampled to death.

September 2006: Stephen Irwin, the Australian wildlife expert, died after being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray dart whilst filming on the Great Barrier Reef. Nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", Irwin, 44, had turn a radio celebrity by a array of inlet programmes in that he clearly brazenly rubbed crocodiles, snakes and alternative lethal species.

March 1991: Pamela Orsi, 27, an animal trainer, was trampled to genocide as she attempted to mangle up a quarrel in between dual elephants at San Diego Wild Animal Park, California. She suffered deadly head injuries in the strife of the dual Asian elephants, each weighing some-more than dual and a half tons.