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all right you’re watching video of a sea world trainer who is brutally killed by a killer whale at the Florida Park in February now one woman says sea world has some secrets about that attack that they don’t want the public to know SeaWorld whistleblower and former Sea
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World safety director Linda Simons joins us now from Orlando along with her attorney Maurice arcadir also weighing in our pal Rebecca Rosewood our favorite one of our favorite attorneys okay let’s go ahead Linda tell us you were approached by whom OSHA approached you
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and said tell us what happened with that Killer attack and what did Sea World want you to do whenever there’s a fatality at any workplace OSHA investigates it so February 24th when Dawn was killed by Tilly OSHA was contacted I contacted them but they were also notified by the
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media so they investigated the death immediately Sea World did not want to cooperate they wanted to block OSHA from coming on site they wanted to hide documents they didn’t want to give videos I’m sorry to cut you off but did SeaWorld tell you did management at SeaWorld tell you you know hide those
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documents get rid of those documents change out some of the trainers what did they do how do you know specifically that they did they told me this document is not going to be given to OSHA these interviews OSHA wanted specific trainers to be interviewed they changed those
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trainers put several people on vacation again blocking them from coming onto site they did not want to cooperate at all they wanted documents changed when I refused I was terminated you were terminating okay I have Rebecca Rosewood and Rebecca weigh in on this is this I
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mean is this the standard whistleblower termination does she have a suit oh well we have a couple of issues here Linda has a suit there’s a criminal investigation that may ensue due to her whistle blowing into a possible manslaughter on the fact that sea world was on notice for for years and years
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before the death of this poor trainer there were two other deaths by this killer whale apparently SeaWorld knew about it and they didn’t do enough according to Linda and according to what may come out with OSHA today to prevent another trainer’s death so not only are
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we looking at Sea World facing criminal charges on the manslaughter civil charges for the death of that trainer look at her beautiful face there also Linda making a federal case and whistleblowing hang in there you guys hang in there I want to bring the panel in Kobe go ahead you do you have an
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opinion on this well well I do obviously uh SeaWorld has a legal obligation to cooperate fully uh not to tamper with documents and not to obstruct the investigation that being said though I mean sort of the the larger picture I mean this this was is a killer whale I
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mean that seems to be fairly descriptive and my understanding of what happened to to poor Dawn who seemed like this is what you want to do this her whole life what happened to her was she didn’t actually go in the water when she was killed she was dragged under by her ponytail which flashes
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you have a different opinion on this just my opinion is your job is you’re working with a killer whale it’s inherent that it’s absolutely so dangerous I mean how much can they do yeah but hang on go ahead let’s be honest about one thing this will kill two other people Free Willy man get this
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guy out of here hold on let’s go back to Linda Linda so your your issue hang on guys your issue is not well I guess one of the issues is that Sea World that someone died at Sea World but the other issue is hiding the stuff hiding the information afterwards let’s ask your
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attorney Mr Arcadia is that what your issue is it’s retaliation sea world has behaved awfully through this entire process and they retaliated against Linda for Linda doing the right thing and what are you suing them for are you looking for a monetary judgment of course we want her reinstated and
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that’s what the OSHA retaliation lawsuit provides uh Lindy you want to you want to go back to work there oh this was my dream job I wanted to work in oceanography I changed that to safety 20 years in safety practice I thought this was putting the two together oceanography with the safety uh
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you know we asked SeaWorld for a quote they would not give us a response to to this issue Rebecca can see besides Linda getting her job back and it sounds like there should be some punitive damages as well is that right or something some punitive portion of that I got a question
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there’s an issue here with Linda’s job if they give her her job back they may have to give her some back pain some punitives if they’re found that they retaliated against her improperly if they don’t give her her job back they may be found to pay her for what she’s lost it’s got to be more than that
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Rebecca we’ve got to leave it there you guys we’re going to lose that satellite window all right thank you Linda Simons Moyes arcadier and Rebecca Rose Woodland coming up
