What is Dawn Brancheau?
{{Infobox person |name= Dawn Brancheau |image= Dawn Brancheau - Riders on the Storm (cropped).jpg |image_caption= Dawn Brancheau at the ''Believe'' show, at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida, in 2006 |birth_name= Dawn Therese LoVerde |birth_date= April 16, 1969 |birth_place= [[Cedar Lake, Indiana]], U.S. |death_date= February 24, 2010 (aged 40) |death_place= [[Orlando, Florida]], U.S. |death_cause= [[Drowning]] and [[blunt-force trauma]] |resting_place = [[Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Worth, Illinois)|Holy Sepulchre Cemetery]], [[Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois|Worth Township, Illinois]], U.S. |occupation= SeaWorld trainer |spouse= {{Marriage|Scott Brancheau|1996|2010}} |years_active= 1994–2010 |parents= Marion LoVerde<br />Charles LoVerde }} '''Dawn Therese Brancheau''' ([[née]] '''LoVerde''', April 16, 1969&nbsp;– February 24, 2010) was an American senior animal trainer at [[SeaWorld]]. She worked with [[orca]]s at [[SeaWorld Orlando]] for fifteen years, including a leading role in revamping the ''[[Shamu (SeaWorld show)|Shamu]]'' show, and was SeaWorld's [[Poster child|poster girl]].<ref name=AP20160317>{{Cite web|title=Years of troubled waters for SeaWorld's killer whale shows|website=News Advance|via=Associated Press|date=March 17, 2016|url=http://www.newsadvance.com/news/national/wire/years-of-troubled-waters-for-seaworld-s-killer-whale-shows/article_ec36e764-efcf-598c-a56a-c8642d5607ee.html}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Brancheau was killed by an orca, [[Tilikum (orca)|Tilikum]], becoming the only SeaWorld trainer killed by an animal. However, her death was the third fatality associated with Tilikum, and many other trainers have been seriously injured by orcas.<ref name=CNN20100224>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/24/killer.whale.trainer.death/index.html|title=SeaWorld trainer killed by killer whale|publisher=CNN|date=February 25, 2010|access-date=March 11, 2010}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brancheau, Dawn}} [[Category:1