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Why don't they talk about her? 33 years after the first kill.

 Okay, we've probably all heard of the Dawn Brancheau's death at SeaWorld in 2010. Right? What if I told you almost 20 years prior there was another girl killed by Tilikum. Her name was Keltie Byrne. Born in the December of 1970 and was brutally attacked by Tilikum on February 2nd, 1991. Maybe some of you have heard of her, but many of you I know haven't.  When looking at almost every article about Tilikum, it mentions Brancheau and her death. I am aware that was the main kill, and my condolences go out to her family, but this wasn't the case when people didn't fuss over Byrne's death. When it was the start of 3 of 4 deaths by a captive orca.  Going back to Keltie's story, she was looking to earn some extra money, so she worked at Canada's SeaLand. Not related to Seaworld. Byrne's shift was going relatively well, when she accidently slipped from the rubber boots, she was wearing and fell into the water. When just about to get out, Tilikum had grabbed...

Let me introduce myself

 Alright, I'm going to say it. Hi, my name is Zara. I am your friendly blogger who will talk about anything and everything I can. It's opinions and facts, ideas and creativity. I'm going to try and blog at least once a week, with a promise for good content with every post I upload. Many of which may be a dump of my ideas or thoughts on a topic or an article about what happened in the past. Just expect a decent idea.