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Tilikum (c. December 1981 [1] – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, [2] was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida.He was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [3]
SeaWorld stated that the injury occurred during "contact with the pool's environment". [24] [133] Nakai was one of the few captive males over the age of 10 to not have a collapsed dorsal fin, other males such as Ikaika and Trua are younger, have shorter fins, and have fully collapsed dorsal fins. Nakai's dorsal fin was nearly 5 feet (1.5 m ...
Nootka IV died in 1994 and Tilikum in 2017. Tilikum was directly responsible for another trainer's death in 2010. Haida II and Nootka IV were both pregnant by Tilikum at the time of the incident. Kasatka and her son Nakai posing during a show in 2002; In 1993, 17-year-old female Kasatka tried to bite an unidentified SeaWorld California trainer ...
SeaWorld announced they have invited experts from outside marine parks and aquariums to review SeaWorld's handling of killer whales and also Tilikum specifically. [ 62 ] On August 23, 2010, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the park US$75,000 for three infractions, two of which were directly related to this incident.
Kasatka was the matriarch of the San Diego Orca SeaWorld family. [5] She was the first captive cetacean to successively receive artificial insemination, according to John Hargrove, a trainer there.
In a new report on the massacre, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said at least 134 men and 73 women, most of them elderly residents accused of witchcraft, were killed in ...
The Japanese government has estimated as of 2012 that the death toll from a future major earthquake along the Nankai zone could reach 323,000 people. As of January 2024, the Japanese Earthquake Research Committee said that there was a 70 to 80 percent likelihood that a quake with a magnitude of 8.0 to 9.0 would occur near the Nankai Trough ...
Distraught families want answers after 179 people die in South Korea’s deadliest domestic air disaster