Orca Who Died A Horrible Death At SeaWorld
Remembering Kasatka, an Icelandic captured orca who died a horrible death after a miserable ‘life’ at SeaWorld a little over 2 years ago.
On October 26, 1978 she was abducted from her family when she about 1 year old alongside her pod-mate Katina, who was 3 years old. They were sold to SeaWorld and sent to San Diego, California that same month. For 4 years, they lived together, but the two were separated in 1984 when Katina was shipped to SeaWorld Orlando, where she remains imprisoned today.
Kasatka was moved from Iceland to SeaWorld park after SeaWorld park – 16 times within 12 years.
Pictures of Kasatka rotting to death in an overcrowded, chlorinated treated concrete tank at SeaWorld San Diego began surfacing in July, 2017.
This poor soul was undoubtably in a lot of pain before she died.
They Euthanized her on August 16, 2017. Kasatka had been suffering from a bacterial lung infection since at least 2008 and her ailing body was covered in lesions before her death. Even though she was sick and on medication, SeaWorld artificially inseminated Kasatka again in 2011 and forced her to bear a fourth calf for the parks to exploit.
Never before has SeaWorld come out and said they euthanized one of their orcas. Not even Tilikum — who was suffering incredibly for at least a decade in his tiny tank.
Not one of their killer whales has ever died of old age. They all die because #CaptivityKills. 8 killer whales have died under “world-class care” since 2010 at SeaWorld, not including stillbirths. 3 in less than a year in 2017 including Tilikum of a ‘super virus’ and 3 month old Kyara of pneumonia.
SeaWorld has been asked many times by PhD marine biologists to share her bloodwork, necropsy, and make public the disease or infection she had. But they did not and will not, which is no surprise, because they never tell the truth about what’s really going on there.
Whether her illness was bacterial or fungal will never be known and is slightly irrelevant, she was eaten alive by opportunistic pathogens in captivity.
This is the same whale that we posted about a few days ago who nearly drown her trainer, Ken Peters. She has a list of incidents that involves her grabbing her trainers.
In case you missed it; here is the informative and poignant blog on Kasatka by Voice of the Orcas – former SW trainers and whistleblowers, Dr. Jeffrey Ventre and Samantha Berg, both featured in Blackfish: http://voiceoftheorcas.blogspot.com/2017/07/kasatkas-impending-death-has-seaworld.html?m=1
#Blackfish
#EmptyTheTanks
#RetireTheWhalesAndDolphins to a coastal sanctuary.
Link to her death and SeaWorld’s ridiculous statement: https://www.facebook.com/158113910892498/posts/1429845133719363?sfns=mo
Link to the effects of chlorine on captives and trainers https://www.google.com/amp/s/timzimmermann.com/2014/03/17/a-quick-look-at-the-impact-of-chlorine-on-orcas-and-trainers/amp/
None of these pictures are Photoshopped. The photographer was escorted out of SeaWorld and publicly handcuffed as it did not follow their ‘protocol’
RIP. Kasatka
We see you.
We care.
We are so sorry.
We are trying..
