Many were outraged by the terrible video that showed the unimaginable assault on Spanish orca trainer Alexis Martinez. In the Canary Islands, the 28-year-old has been training.
With orcas at Loro Parque’s Orca Ocean. On December 24, 2009, the orca Keto murdered Alexis Martinez as they were rehearsing for a Christmas play.
Tragically, he passed only two months prior to Dawn Brancheau, a 14-year-old trainer, being attacked and murdered by an orca. Just weeks before to the incident in which he was killed,
Martinez expressed worries about the killer whales’ behavior, according to his girlfriend, Estefanía Luis Rodriguez. He told her that the whales were become hostile, disruptive, and disobedient.
Born in 1995 at a SeaWorld exhibit, Keto is a 6,600-pound male killer whale who has never seen the ocean. Keto was on loan from SeaWorld to Loro Parque at the time of Martinez’s death.
The trainer perched on the killer whale as he emerged from the water during Martinez’s attempt at a stand-on spy hop, which led to the catastrophe.
