SeaWorld San Diego Cited For Safety Violations

SeaWorld San Diego was cited by the state’s Occupational Safety and Health division for not showing employees how to “safely interact with killer whales,” Cal/OSHA announced.

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued four citations with a fine of $25,770.

SeaWorld said the citations show a “fundamental misunderstanding of the requirements of safely caring for killer whales” and plans to appeal.

The citations were the result of an inspection spurred by a complaint.

Orlando-based SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. has given up trying to appeal a federal ruling that keeps trainers from performing in the water with whales during shows. The citation says trainers still ride and swim with the orcas in a medical pool, however, and that employees are also present on the “slide outs” used by the whales.

Agencies/Canadajournal

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