Tilikum was collected in Iceland by an another entity back in ’80, ’79 or ’80, I don’t remember exactly the year. It was taken to Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, Canada and lived there for many years with two other female whales. Those animals up there were never desensitized to water work or having somebody get in the water with them, either shallow water or deep water or anything. So they never were sort of trained to leave the person alone and just sit there. At SeaWorld we did that. So there was an individual up there who had on boots and rain gear and two heavy buckets of fish one day and fell into the pool fully dressed with her two buckets. All three whales pushed her around the pool until she drowned. And when we brought Tilikum from Sealand to SeaWorld of Orlando, we had a note put out to everybody that we wouldn’t be getting in the water with Tilikum because of his history.
