Reintroducing Keiko to the Wild webinar

Several of the people who are now on the team of the Whale Sanctuary Project worked together two decades ago to reintroduce the orca Keiko to the wild.
In this webinar, two members of Keiko’s team talk about what it was like bringing him to Iceland on a giant cargo plane leased from the U.S. military and then working with him for four years in Klettsvik Bay as he learned that live fish are food and developed the skills to interact with others of his own kind in the ocean, until the day he set off on his own on a 1,000-mile adventure that took him to the coast of Norway.
It’s a fascinating discussion between Jeff Foster, Keiko’s Director of Field Operations and Research, and Charles Vinick, who served as Project Director in Iceland. Today, Charles is the Executive Director of the Whale Sanctuary Project, and Jeff is our Site Search, Animal Transfer and Rehab Coordinator.
Toward the end of this webinar, Charles looks back over the whole experience and notes that while we have always known that it is very easy to capture a whale from the ocean, “What we learned is that it is very difficult to put one back.”
To learn more about the Whale Sanctuary Project: whalesanctuaryproject.org