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JJ the Whale's Story
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Find out the real story behind JJ's (AKA 'Marina') rescue.
After the Whale Rescue Team literally begged Sea World to take JJ for two days - the park gave in. The WRT drove the gray whale calf more than 3 hours all the way from Del Ray to San Diego.
Sea World kept JJ for a year in their recently-built "Shamu: Close-Up" tank. They put her back in the ocean in March 1998 along the San Diego Coast line. It is unknown whether she located her family and if she is still alive.
As said in the video, they [Sea World] will not take in/rescue any animal larger than 20 feet - so that includes orcas, gray whales, and humpback whales. Sea World's website claims to have rescued orcas before and rehabilitated them in their park but this is incorrect. There is no record what so ever of this happening even once. The website lists nothing specifically - not a date, not a whale's name, etc. All of Sea World's orcas are either captive born or caught from the wild [Iceland or Canada].
Photos: Thank you to the Whale Rescue Team obviously - as well as the NOAA and NMML (those pictures are in the public domain anyway though). The two pictures of SW orcas belong to me.
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