Eyewitnesses watch as 12,000-pound whale attacks female trainer at SeaWorld. Feb. 24, 2010— -- A female trainer was killed today at SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla., by a 12,000 ...

"We built the brand around Shamu many years ago and made people fall in love with killer whales," Manby told me, "but now the paradox is that it's one of the leading reasons people are ...

(Apparently they weren’t interested in just giving the whale a name of her own.) Their new attraction would be named Shamu. “And that’s how it all started,” Griffin concluded.

SeaWorld has announced it is evolving its killer whale shows, which typically feature the orca Shamu, after activists repeatedly called them cruel. Shamu is actually a brand name, based on the ...

SeaWorld Orlando’s four pilot whales have a new home in Shamu Stadium, where guests should soon be able to see them. SeaWorld moved the whales April 28 from the dolphin stadium, where they had ...

SeaWorld marine parks will launch a new killer-whale show in spring 2011 as it attempts to move beyond the death of an animal trainer that forced a complete reworking of the current Shamu show.

Shedding Shamu also means that whale memorabilia have become collector’s items. The gift shops at Sea World no longer sell souvenir hats, jackets and key chains depicting the smiling blimp.

David Kirby, author of the book "Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity," joined the "CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-hosts to talk about the documentary.

17385.story”>SeaWorld trainers won’t return to “water work” with killer whales in the new 2011 Shamu show after the death of an animal trainer forced a complete reworking of the marine ...

Although his foot was broken, the trainer would survive. So would the Shamu killer whale shows at SeaWorld San Diego. The shows continue today, but something is different: trainers aren’t allowed in ...

A WOMAN who was savaged by Shamu the SeaWorld orca has revealed what it was really like when the killer whale tried to drown her. Anne Godsey found herself jammed between the jaws of the two-tonne ...