Tilikum the killer whale was just two years old when he was kidnapped from his family off the coast of Iceland and taken to a concrete holding tank at Hafnarfjördur Marine Zoo near Reykjavík.
For almost one year, all the whale was capable of doing was to swim in circles or float still on the surface as he waited to be shipped to Canada.
Gone were the familiar noises of the ocean that he had been used to for the first two years of his life, replaced with the low hum of the mechanical filtration that kept his tank clean.
Tilikum, which means friend in Chinock, was eventually shipped to his new home, the rundown Sealand of the Pacific, on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island in 1984.
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