Overview
- The renewed coverage recounts the December 2009 Loro Parque show where Keto killed trainer Alexis Martinez, with the autopsy citing crushed bones, torn organs, and bite wounds.
- Trainers reported the orca refused cues and forced Martinez to the pool floor, and staff later used a net to move Keto into an adjacent tank.
- Keto was born in 1995 at SeaWorld Orlando, lived only in man‑made pools, weighed about 6,600 pounds, and died at Loro Parque in 2024 at age 29.
- The killing occurred two months before SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau died in a separate attack by Tilikum, a sequence that preceded SeaWorld’s later decision to end orca breeding.
- Animal-rights groups, including PETA, cite these cases as evidence that captivity harms orcas, noting Keto’s captive-born calves and other losses in park programs.