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| [00:07.47]On March Third, Keiko the whale pushed open a door and swam out of his floating cage. [00:15.07]In doing so, he gained the most freedom he has known since he was a baby. [00:21.11]He can now move around in all of Klettsvik Bay, in the Westman Islands off Iceland. [00:28.16]The Atlantic Ocean bay is the size of about twenty-two soccer,football fields. [00:35.50]It has land on three sides and the open ocean on the fourth. [00:40.36]Barriers keep Keiko from going into the ocean. [00:44.43]But the bay gives him far more space than his last home, which was a floating holding pen. [00:51.54]Keiko's new world has a natural shoreline and natural bottom with rocks. [00:57.57]Other sea creatures live in the bay. [01:00.55]The release of Keiko into Klettsvik Bay is part of the first attempt ever [01:06.66]to return a killer whale to the wild after years in captivity. [01:12.15]His owner, the Ocean Futures Society,wants to increase scientific knowledge of the social activities of Orc whales. [01:21.97]Orcs are the black and white mammals sometimes called killer whales. [01:28.66]But there is no evidence that they have attacked humans. [01:32.32]They probably got their name because they are among the best hunters in the oceans. [01:38.01]Keiko brought pleasure to many people when he played Willy the whale in the 1993 movie, "Free Willy. " [01:47.28]He also appeared in a second movie about Willy. [01:51.57]Keiko became famous. [01:53.74]But he was living in bad conditions in an amusement park in Mexico. [01:59.35]His health was poor. [02:01.73]Some experts said he would never recover enough to live in the cold ocean waters where Orcs normally swim. [02:10.19]It took years, but Keiko has proved those experts wrong. [02:15.24]Keiko had human help in returning to his home waters. [02:21.40]People from all over the world made it possible for Keiko to be released into the Atlantic Ocean bay. [02:30.23]The organization, Ocean Futures Society, is training him to survive total freedom in the ocean. [02:38.35]The society was formed last year. [02:42.25]It joined a Keiko support group, the Free Willy Foundation, with the Jean-Michel Costeau Institute. [02:50.19]Jean-Michel Costeau is a leading environmentalist and ocean expert. [02:55.99]The new organization was established to protect the oceans and the creatures who live there. [03:03.20]Keiko the Orc probably started life very near the place where he is today. [03:09.62]He was born in about 1978 in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland. [03:16.60]While still a baby he was captured in fishermen's equipment. [03:21.25]He was taken to an aquarium in Iceland so people could see him. [03:26.65]At age four or five he began training as a performing whale. [03:31.83]He did tricks for the public at a park in Ontario, Canada. [03:37.05]There he developed skin problems caused by a virus. The sores on his skin remained for years. [03:45.57]The Canadian park sold Keiko to an amusement park in Mexico City in 1985. [03:53.38]There his keepers would throw playthings at the whale which he would return to them. [04:00.30]He ate dead fish provided by his keepers. [04:03.96]Representatives of Warner Brothers film studios saw Keiko perform. [04:11.43]They chose him to appear as Willy in "Free Willy." [04:16.34]The story is about a young boy who saves an Orca whale from a sad life in an amusement park. [04:23.68]The public loved the movie. [04:26.34]Keiko became well known. [04:29.01]Yet the actor whale was not living a good life. [04:32.85]He was extremely thin. [04:35.28]The water in his container pool in Mexico was not seawater. [04:41.00]It was too warm for an Orc, and it did not cover his skin. His sores were getting worse. [04:48.81]His teeth were broken from biting the edges of his pool. [04:52.88]He acted sad. [04:55.24]Luckily, a story in a magazine told the public about Keiko's living conditions. [05:03.07]Warner .Brothers and an American businessman gave 4,000,000 dollars to establish the Free Willy Foundation. [05:11.93]Its goal was to return Keiko to the sea. [05:15.64]An animal protection group, the Humane Society of the United States, also gave a million dollars. [05:23.53]A second film about Willy was produced as a video. [05:28.70]Each video contained a request to send money to move Keiko to a better home. [05:36.22]Children and adults from all over the world answered the appeals. [05:41.68]The Mexican amusement park said it would give Keiko to the people wanting to help him. [05:48.73]By 1996, there was enough money to move the whale to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. [05:56.60]The special zoo for creatures that live in the water is on the Pacific Ocean in the northwest United States. [06:05.04]Keiko now lived in a pool of ocean water. [06:10.29]It was built especially for him. Many animal doctors worked to improve his health. [06:17.42]Keiko gained more than one-half a ton during his first year in Oregon. " [06:23.27]By the next year live fish were placed in his pool. [06:27.89]The goal was to help Keiko learn to catch and eat live fish, like a normal Orc. [06:35.83]His skin sores improved. [06:38.08]Finally, they disappeared. [06:40.67]After eighteen months in Oregon, Keiko had gained more than a ton. [06:47.04]He had learned to eat live fish. [06:49.94]The Free Willy Foundation decided he was ready for a return to the icy ocean where he was born. [06:58.17]The next step for Keiko was the move to Iceland. |
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