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Reuters reports: Killer whales severely damaged a sailing boat off the coast of southern Spain, the local maritime rescue service said on Thursday, adding to dozens of orca attacks on vessels recorded so far this year on Spanish and Portuguese coasts. In the early hours of Thursday, a group of orcas broke the rudder and pierced the hull after ramming …

PETA is suing Sea World for violating the Thirteenth Amendment, which bans slavery. And Shamu? That’s his SLAVE name. The chances of the suit succeeding are slim, according to legal experts not involved in the case; any judge who hews to the original intent of the authors of the amendment is unlikely to find that they wanted to protect animals. …

“What about the term ‘killer whale’ do SeaWorld officials not understand? If the counsel of the Judeo-Christian tradition had been followed, Tillikum would have been put out of everyone’s misery back in 1991 and would not have had the opportunity to claim two more human lives. Says the ancient civil code of Israel, ‘When an ox gores a man or …

Sea World says they’ll resume the killer whale shows this weekend, but trainers won’t be getting in the water for now. Tilikum, the literal killer whale, will remain “an active contributing member of the team.” What he contributes is orca sperm, as he is the main stud for all the Sea World parks.

Well, this is bound to hurt attendance. A killer whale at Orlando’s Sea World grabbed a trainer off the platform and killed her. A SeaWorld employee died this afternoon during an incident at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium, an Orange County Sheriff’s Office official confirmed. SeaWorld, rescue personnel and the Sheriff’s Office are not revealing the identity of the victim, although a …