There has not been a single incident of killer whales harming humans in the wild.
"There has not been a single incident of killer whales harming humans in the wild. In captivity, it's happened more than 70 times… If you put a human in a bathtub for 25 years they'd be psychotic too." In 1983, a two-year-old orca was taken from his family in the waters off the coast of Iceland and held in a concrete holding tank at a zoo near Reykjavรญk. Stuck in cramped conditions for months, the young orca, given the name Tilikum, barely had enough room to even swim in circles. In 1984, Tilikum was shipped off to Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver, where he was housed in a tiny tank with two older orcas who didn't take to their younger tank mate kindly. They regularly asserted their dominance over Tilikum, scraping him with their teeth and physically abusing him to the point where he developed stomach ulcers and required a transfer to an isolated medical pool to heal. But that was just the beginning of Tilkum's tragic life in captivity — which ultimately t...