Orlando, Florida (CNN) - SeaWorld has scheduled a news conference Friday to discuss an accident that left a trainer dead after she was attacked by a whale, a spokesman said.
Dawn Brancheau, 40, died Wednesday from multiple injuries and drowning after a 12,000-pound whale grabbed her ponytail and pulled her underwater in front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium, the Orange County Sheriff's office said Thursday.
She was "pulled underwater for an extended period of time," Chuck Tompkins, SeaWorld's curator of zoological operations, told CNN's "American Morning."
SeaWorld said the 1 p.m. ET news conference will give more details. Watch the news conference live on CNN.com and on your iPhone.
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