![]() ![]() In the photo, which appears to be staged, two trainers in wetsuits can be seen on what I like to call “portable floating platforms,” a way of bypassing OSHA prohibitions because they’re technically not immersed in the water, meaning they’re not doing waterwork. ![]() I’m including it here for a single reason. ” The tweet has since been deleted, but that hasn’t stopped the photo from making the rounds on social media. On April 8, 2023, Jim Irsay tweeted the above photo with the caption “Lolita is chillin’ out. They don’t need to be identified and harassed. We have blacked out the faces of trainers, veterinarians and others appearing in these photos, even if these photos have appeared elsewhere online. All images and quoted text are being provided for not-for-profit educational purposes only (I don’t make a cent off this blog). Photographs either have been approved for publication by the rights owner or are being used under the fair use doctrine. You will meet some of my collaborators over the coming months.Īll third-party material – including published documents and images – have been fully vetted. Some I don’t even know who they are as they’ve shared material with another collaborator who shared it with me, the old “friend of a friend” scenario. Many people – some are animal rights advocates, some are marine life park professionals, some are citizen journalists – have contributed in varying ways. This blog post, and the last few, have been collaborative efforts. ![]() But the reality is that time is the one constant – the one enemy – that you’re always fighting. You may feel that you have all the time in the world, that you or an orca can live forever. I learned one important thing in the last few months through the death of Kiska and the discovery of multiple varieties of cancer within my body. And then Kiska died.Īfter her death, I started the blog back up and thought I’d work on a couple of posts then walk away for a few months, or years while I coped with my medical issues, but I’ve found the research and the writing to be quite cathartic. It wasn’t with the Whale Sanctuary Project nor any of its affiliates, and we were making significant progress with the park. I won’t be discussing any details because I’m still under a nondisclosure agreement, but I will share two things. For sixteen months, I quit blogging while I worked on a project to remove Kiska, Canada’s lone orca, from MarineLand. ![]()
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