He emerged from the tank with one leg of his wet suit torn. Other trainers stretched a net between him and Kasatka, Koontz said. The whale finally released him, and Peters surfaced and swam away. Again they were splashing the water to try to get the whale to come to the surface," Ingrande said. The crowd "began to realize there was not something right and the whale was down again under the water. "When the trainer came up to the surface a second time, (he) was able to have the whale remain calm and eventually was able to get out from the pool on his own - was able to swim out and get out on his own," Mike Scarpuzzi, who oversees zoological operations, told CBS Radio station KNX. When they came up, Peters tried to calm the animal by rubbing and stroking its back, but it grabbed him and plunged down again for about another minute.
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