My 15yo dd takes Marine Biology and her instructor holds lab once a month at Sea World Orlando. The instructor was a former educator at SW and takes the students around to meet staff, trainers, and do a lot of behind the scenes stuff. It is a very responsible organization and the trainers are truly amazing people...as passionate as we are. How many of us have taken in rescue animals with bad reps and accepted the risk? I see the SW organization coming under fire unnecessarily just as herpers are.

Her family has my sympathies, she was a remarkable person living her dream.