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Bookmark or Share- Keiko the Whale Is Focus of New Serial Productions PodcastKeiko’s story has further Oregon ties: Free Willy was shot, in part, in Astoria and many Portland locations including downtown and Oaks Amusement Park. The Good Whale comes out Nov. 14.
- Serial Productions to release 'The Good Whale' podcast on KeikoKeiko was released into the Atlantic Ocean off Iceland in 2002, becoming the first captive orca to be freed back into the wild. He would go on to join a pod of orcas for a short time before ...
- Keiko (orca) - WikipediaKeiko (c. 1976 – 12 December 2003) was a male orca captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland in 1979. He was best known for his portrayal of Willy in the 1993 film Free Willy . In 1996, Warner Bros. and the International Marine Mammal Project collaborated to return Keiko to the wild.
- Heartbreaking story of Free Willy star Keiko the killer ... - The US SunKeiko was born into a wild group of killer whales in Icelandic waters before he was captured in 1979 when he was just two-years-old. After six years spent living with other killer whales in tanks in Iceland and Canada, he was sold to an amusement park in Mexico City.
- KEIKO, THE ORCA STAR OF FREE WILLY, FAQKeiko is the only long-term captive orca who has ever been given the chance to return to his native waters. Would it have been better to leave Keiko in captivity? Keiko was in poor health and grossly underweight while in captivity in Mexico.
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