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I didn't know it was gonna happen, so I wasn't expecting it...
... and um, one day they say, "Okay, Sam you're ready to go..."
"... you're going to stand on the whale. You're going to dive of the whale..."
"... the whale's going to swim under you and pick you up again..."
"... and then you're going to do a, a perimeter ride around the pool."
He just told me to go do it, and I did it. Wow...
... I just rode a killer whale!
In the movie, that you see...
... with the woman swimming with the killer whale? That was me, that wasn't her.
That was two years of my career, leading up to that point...
... that they twisted and took from me.
The video that was used in the film was of my very first time getting in the water with a killer whale.
It was... one of the most amazing moments of my life. And...
... I worked very hard to get to that point in my life.
I studied biology, and psychology. I specialized in behavior analysis.
I spent four years getting my degree, and then I spent several other...
... years getting experience in other facilities before I even came to SeaWorld.
The one thing that I want people to know after watching the movie, is that it's not true.