captive orca profiles 8 Kasatka

Kasatka is a female orca who lives at SeaWorld San Diego and the mother of Takara, Nakai, Kalia and Makani. She is currently the park's dominant orca and she can be seen putting the other whales in their places including her own offspring. She was captured off the coast of Iceland on October 26, 1978, at the age of one year. Kasatka is now a great grandmother. Kasatka has shown aggression to humans. In 1993 Kasatka tried to bite a trainer during a show, and again in 1999. On November 30, 2006, Kasatka grabbed a trainer and dragged him underwater during their show. The trainer escaped with his life and was later in good condition despite being underwater for a "brief" amount of time. Since this incident, Kasatka has been barred from performing waterworks with trainers. The clip everyone has seen of an orca holding the trainers foot (Ken Peters) and dragging him to the bottom of the pool and back is of Kasatka. As you can see below Kasatka has quite a large attack history, having a go at Ken Peters twice. My own opinion is it is more luck that anything else that she hasn’t done someone some serious harm or caused their death. Saying that though, she is more than capable of killing each one of these trainers yet chose not to. 1989/04/08 Sea World Texas, USA Kasatka 12-year-old female Kasatka mouthed a trainer’s leg. 1989/09/30 Sea World Texas, USA Kasatka 12-year-old female Kasatka mouthed a trainer’s feet. 1990/07/06 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 14-year-old female Kasatka mouthed a trainer’s thigh. 1991/07/31 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 14-year-old female Kasatka grabbed a trainer’s foot (termed “jaw popped on foot” in Injury Report) and fluked a trainer’s back. 1992/10/11 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 14-year-old female Kasatka mouthed a trainer’s foot. 1993/04/25 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 16-year-old female Kasatka tried to bite a trainer (not Kenneth Peters, btw), mouthed feet and legs 1993/07/15 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 16-year-old female Kasatka mouthed a trainer’s feet and legs, grabbed a knee and dunked the trainer, grabbed a foot and dunked the trainer 1999/06/12 Sea World California, USA Kasatka After her calf Takara split to a back pool during a show, 23-year-old Kasatka, the dominant female in the park, began to fast swim around the perimeter, grabbed trainer Kenneth Peters’ leg and attempted to throw him out of the pool at SeaWorld San Diego. Peters was pulled out of the pool by another trainer. 2004/10/18 Sea World California, USA Kasatka A trainer was attempting to Scuba dive in “E” pool with 28-year-old female Kasatka and her 3-year-old male calf Nakai. The trainer did not have approval to swim with fins. He may have brushed her with his fins and she became aggressive, mouthing fins and Scuba gear. She eventually responded to a hand slap stage call. 2006/11/29 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 30-year-old female Kasatka attacked Kenneth Peters, SeaWorld San Diego’s most experienced trainer, during a show at Shamu Stadium. Kasatka grabbed the trainer’s foot and dove to the bottom of the 36-foot tank. They surfaced less than a minute later, but she ignored other trainers’ signals to draw her to the side. The orca dove a second time with the trainer for about a minute. Peters only escaped after other trainers worked a large safety net between the two. He suffered puncture wounds and a broken left foot. That’s the second reported attack by Kasatka on Peters. 2008/03/18 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 32-year-old female Kasatka came out at a trainer. 2008/09/10 Sea World California, USA Kasatka 32-year-old female Kasatka came out at a trainer

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