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Thursday, November 12, 2015
SeaWorld San Diego to phase out orca shows
Will El Niño bring severe weather to SD? BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON Though not a certainty, the “smart” money is on the building El Niño in the Pacific Ocean leading to a wetter-than-normal winter this year. It now seems more a question of how much — and how long — the precipitation will last, not whether it will happen. “It’s like it (El Niño) is almost too big to fail,” said San Diego Lifeguard Lt. John Sandmeyer following a recent briefing he and other city officials had from the National Weather Service about the El Niño/La Niña cycle. “The atmosphere is loaded with moisture, and it will come, though it’s uncertain whether the ocean track will go over Central California, Southern California or Mexico,” said Sandmeyer. He described the building El Niño, explained by weather forecasters, as a “significant bank of water 2.23 degrees (much) warmer than usual and hundreds of feet deep out in the South Pacific.” “El Niño,” “The Christ Child” in Spanish, referring to its impact during Christmas in South SEE EL NINO, Page 18
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BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON Apparently bowing to public opposition to its killer whale shows, which some have branded as commercial exploitation, SeaWorld announced it will phase out its orca shows in 2016 and replace them with a “more natural” whale experience debuting in 2017. Announcement of changes to SeaWorld's current busi-
ness model was made Nov. 9 during a live webcast of the theme park and entertainment company's annual investor meeting. Joel Manby, SeaWorld Entertainment's president/CEO, said the company intends to reposition itself “by evolving the guest experience to align with consumer preferences for experiences that matter – to learn SEE SEAWORLD, Page 16
DA to not prosecute police shooting in Midway District BY LIAM DILLON VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Spring tides soak Sunset Cliffs A massive wave crashes near construction workers as they reinforce the cliffs at the foot of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Pescadero Avenue on Oct. 30. The so-called ‘spring tides,’ caused when the sun and the moon line up, PHOTO BY MIKE McCARTHY created huge surf that soaked the coastline late last month.
It’s no surprise District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis decided Nov. 9 not to prosecute a San Diego police officer who shot and killed an unarmed mentally ill man in the Midway district in the
spring. Dumanis has been signaling that the case didn’t meet the high bar needed to criminally charge officers in the line of duty. The policeman in question, Neal Browder, has also been back on active duty for months. SEE MIDWAY, Page 6