SeaScope 52 - Keiko - Homeward Bound

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@orcawithdrip827 4 жыл бұрын

Just gonna throw this out there: Keiko was one of the sickest orcas in captivity, suffering in a high-altitude city (which is unnatural for orcas), with very warm tap water mixed with salt. He had developed a papilloma virus infection of his skin and was extremely underweight ( the outlines of his skull were visible ). IMMP had a state-of-the-art huge tank built to rehabilitate Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, featuring real seawater and an ozone water-treatment system that avoided the use of harsh chemicals like chlorine, which SeaWorld uses in their parks’s tanks. Keiko was flown from Mexico City to Newport Oregon, after receiving a boisterous farewell from thousands and thousands of children who lined the streets of Mexico City to wave goodbye to Keiko. Keiko thrived in Oregon. He put on over 3,000 pounds, increased his diving time underwater ( from 3 minutes when he first arrived to almost 20 minutes ), pursued live fish, experienced real seawater for the first time in over 14 years and was completely cured of his skin disease. The next step in his rehabilitation went forward as he was flown to a seaside sanctuary in Iceland. Finally, at last, he was back in his home waters. In Iceland, Keiko continued his growth and exercise, including “walks” where he followed a special boat out into the Atlantic Ocean, returning to his sanctuary. Ultimately, IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation did not really “release” Keiko - he simply swam away and was free. During several months in the wild, Keiko fed himself, maintained his weight, and interacted with wild orca pods, although he never joined up with them. It is unlikely that he ever found his own pod of orca relatives. He finally swam all the way from Iceland to the Norwegian coast. There, he began interacting with people on the shore and was in danger of being hit by boat traffic, so IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation led him to an isolated cove where he could be watched and fed, but was free to come and go as he pleased. When Keiko died, he was the second-longest lived orca ever kept in captivity at that time. SeaWorld never bothered to mention that during the time IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation were rehabilitating and releasing Keiko back to his wild ocean home, 17 orcas died in captivity. I’ll repeat that: 17 orcas died in captivity during the time Keiko was being rehabilitated in Oregon and his sea pen and finally free in his ocean home. SeaWorld has nothing to say about their captivity failures.

@Ascension1004 4 жыл бұрын

Informative read. Thank you

@orcawithdrip827 4 жыл бұрын

Ascension 2000 You’re welcome

@theorcaproject9600 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It is very sad that Keiko never found his family again, but he adapted almost perfectly to the wild ocean. By the way, you forgot to mention Keiko died battling pneumonia, a disease he had since young. He was a warrior.

@thareallaura77 3 жыл бұрын

It angers me Seaworld refuses to release their remaining Orcas. Did you read the lawsuits filed against Seaworld in 2011 on behalf of the captive Orcas? our court systems give basic animal rights to cats, dogs, and various animals, yet fail to recognize Orca as anymore than Seaworld's property.....

@MrJm323 2 жыл бұрын

Orcas dying in captivity are not "captivity failures". If that were true, they wouldn't make money from their captivity -- they wouldn't be able to have them work to entertain SeaWorld's paying guests if they were sick and sickly-looking. (The fact that Keiko was sickly-looking prompted the Mexican park owners to give him away, didn't it? He was no longer profitable, and most Mexicans were happy to see him be moved to Oregon.) Orcas also die in the wild. How many wild Icelandic orcas died while Keiko was being readied for release? Oh, my goodness! That many! How many humans who had ever been guests at SeaWorld died in that period? You don't say!! What a pointless point! ....And, interestingly, you're saying (by implication, from the way you said it) that Keiko is NO LONGER the second-longest lived orca ever kept in captivity? So, SeaWorld (or Sea World of Australia or Sea World of Kamogawa in Japan) are getting better and better in caring for their captive orcas? ....Hmmmm. Here's something YOU omit to mention -- the proportion of captive orcas who were BORN IN CAPTIVITY. Do we know which ones live longer? (The captured ones or the captive-born ones?) Do most of the 'Blackfish'-watching nutjobs even know that??!? (That the majority of current captive orcas had NEVER BEEN IN THE WILD in the first place?) So, why should SeaWorld (and the numerous other marine mammal parks and aquariums around the world) put a stop their breeding programs? Or put a stop to trading orcas among each other who are captive-born? They should keep breeding them and continue to make money exhibiting THEM (with trainers in the water)!!

@tayloroconnell8906 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE YOU KEIKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ajdecaomusic 3 жыл бұрын

Much love for all who worked on this

@krizianne 4 жыл бұрын

“Keiko is finally home.” 🤍

@nightwingifan4068 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe how amazing keiko was

@ashleyspitzer6672 Жыл бұрын

Keiko should never have been taken away from his pod a long time ago! While he was performing when he was a young orca, did anyone ever cared to think about his pod back then before his film Free Willy was in production no! It was children that became the voice for Keiko's release to return to the wild! It was our voice that helped set Keiko free when I was little. I was very little when the first Free Willy movie came out. Does anybody know what ever became of Keiko's pod over the years or whatever happen to his pod when he was returned to his home? Sea World need to learn something from this how they treat their Orcas.

@darlingnikki1353 5 жыл бұрын

I'm not, shall we say, a weepy individual but this brought tears to my eyes 😢

@annetteslife 5 жыл бұрын

I almost crying watching this because I was happy to see him released

@danielledewitt1 5 жыл бұрын

Annette Melnychuk Releasing him killed him.

@Romulan2469 5 жыл бұрын

@@danielledewitt1 He would have died in captivity anyway. At least he had a brief taste of freedom.

@danielledewitt1 5 жыл бұрын

Romulan2469 Very brief.

@Romulan2469 5 жыл бұрын

@@danielledewitt1 I think the free Keiko project had the right intentions, however used the wrong way of implementing it. I'm no supporter of captivity nor am I a supporter of freeing all captive whales into the wild. The Keiko project was too bold to be successful. Keiko should have been released into a sea pen and cared and looked after from there. There is no way an orca being in captivity as long as him was ever going to last long on his own without human care.

@danielledewitt1 5 жыл бұрын

Romulan2469 No wild animals including orcas should be in captivity.

@lunamoonlight7003 5 жыл бұрын

Now we have to do the same for Lolita even though keiko didn’t live long in the wild Lolita’s been in captivity for like 40 years and her tank is so so so small. “Willy” had other orcas and Lolita’s. Companion Hugo committed suicide when she was young so she has two dolphins now

@rudolfhubert7809 2 жыл бұрын

Lolita is now in retirement. So maybe shes lucky enough to get rehabilitated

@CoreyMillionaire2029 2 жыл бұрын

@@rudolfhubert7809 We NEED to help her NOW. Tilikum died knowing only a prison, Lolita deserves to one day die free in the ocean like Keiko: wild and free!

@MrJm323 2 жыл бұрын

"'Willy' [Keiko] had other orcas..." No, Keiko did not have other orcas. (And, when the adolescent male Keiko DID have other orcas, early on in his captivity, he was bullied by them.) Keiko had, in his Mexico City tank (Reino Aventura), just two dolphins as companions. If you release Lolita into the open ocean, she will just swim back to the humans. She will probably be at greater risk of injury from collisions with boat traffic in harbors. Caring for Keiko in his pseudo-wild situation was cost prohibitive. The Free Willy Foundation was actually lucky that he died so soon. If people are paying ticket money to see Lolita, then obviously it makes more economic sense to keep her in an entertainment venue.

@sacredartscommunications5522 Жыл бұрын

Relief! He made it!

@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын

he was so trusting--in the end he knew his life was to be his own

@Smurflily 7 ай бұрын

Corky's captivity is to return her to the wild. After she spend 55 years in aquarium Corky is ready to go home to Busan where she was captured as a baby.

@Smurflily 7 ай бұрын

Choco: Corky Let's check your temperature.

@Smurflily 7 ай бұрын

Bread: Let's go corky. Let's get you home to busan.

@tayloroconnell8906 3 жыл бұрын

RIP KEIKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@DylanLefever 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if kiekos ears popped while flying with the pressure

@rachellelazore8856 5 жыл бұрын

Miss baby Keiko

@yveslabbe9608 2 жыл бұрын

Je vous ai observé dans une vidéo, vous aviez l'air songeur en regardant Keiko moi j'ai jamais cru que Keiko dans l'océan, dans la baie il aurait été heureux! Îl n'a aucune malice et il allé mourir en Norvège près des homme.

@maidyhariska 3 жыл бұрын

Miss you keikoo❤❤😔