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Edward Irving "Ted" Griffin (born November 22, 1935) is an American former aquarium owner and entrepreneur who was the first man to ever swim with a killer whale in a public exhibition, with the whale named Namu.
Dec 13, 2018 · HOSTILE WATERS | Namu was Ted Griffin’s greatest prize, a live killer whale, put on display at Seattle’s waterfront. The orca’s journey from wild to captive would spark a worldwide...
Jan 1, 1999 · On July 27, 1965, the world's first captive orca whale arrives in Elliott Bay for display at the private Seattle Marine Aquarium on Pier 56. The massive whale had become entangled in fishing nets in Namu Bay, British Columbia, on June 25, and was later purchased by aquarium owner Ted Griffin and towed to Seattle in a floating pen.
The Yukon Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on 15 February 1967, in Yukon Harbor on the west side of Puget Sound. [1] The first four orcas that had been taken into ...
Aug 20, 2023 · “It was easy,” remembered Ted Griffin, the man who first brought captive performing killer whales to the world, with his capture of Namu, a northern resident orca for his aquarium on the...
Aug 21, 2023 · "It was easy," remembered Ted Griffin, the man who first brought captive performing killer whales to the world, with his capture of Namu, a northern resident orca for his aquarium on the...
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Aug 19, 2021 · Although devastated by Namu's death, Ted Griffin and others continued their efforts to capture orcas for sale and exhibition. By 1976, approximately 270 orcas had been captured in the Salish Sea (some multiple times); at least 12 died during capture and more than 50 were sold for display.
