Keiko has a new tank in Oregon and a dream team of experts that gets him into shape. But soon they start fighting over what a realistic future looks like for this golden retriever of an orca.
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It was a Sunday morning in January 1996.
A three and a half ton orca lolled about in a shipping container full of ice, strapped to the inside of a cargo plane flying thousands of feet above the surface of the earth.
It's the outlandish sort of magic we take for granted, the kind that only happens because we humans have scrapped the rules of the natural world and rewritten them to our whims, making the absurd a killer whale flying into something almost ordinary.
It was Keiko, headed to his new home at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, a relatively small regional facility in Newport, a few hours southwest of Portland.
So that day was typical of the Oregon coast.
It was raining, it was windy, it was cold.
This is Diane Hammond.
I don't know what my title was, but I was pretty much press secretary to the killer whale.
You were there before Keiko arrived?
I was there long before Keiko arrived.
I was there before there was an aquarium.