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Dec 13, 2018 · Ted Griffin holds a fish for Namu in May 1966 at his Seattle Marine Aquarium. Namu was the world’s first captive performing killer whale. (Richard Heyza / The Seattle Times) Ted Griffin...
Namu was only the third orca ever captured and was the first to perform and swim with a person for audiences. Namu survived just over one year in captivity and died in his pen on July 9, 1966. [14] Griffin also captured the original Shamu in 1965 and leased (and eventually sold) her to SeaWorld in San Diego.
- American
- Edward Irving Griffin, November 22, 1935 (age 87), Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Aquarium owner, entrepreneur
- Colorado College
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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Jan 1, 1999 · 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.
At the start of 1967, Ted Griffin, director of the Seattle Public Aquarium on Pier 56, began actively searching for a replacement for Namu, who had died the previous July. He said, "The hottest area for killer whales at present would be the channel between Possession Point [on Whidbey Island ] and Point No Point ," and he asked people around ...
Oct 14, 2017 · In 1965, Orca Hunter Ted Griffin became the first person to ever swim publicly with a killer whale. He also founded and operated Seattle’s first aquarium, the Seattle Marine Aquarium on Pier 56 in Elliot Bay, where he showcased Namu, the famous orca who also starred in a Hollywood movie of the same name made that year.
May 28, 2019 · Lolita (first called Tokitae) was captured on August 8, 1970 in Penn Cove, Whidbey Island. She was one of seven young whales sold to marine parks around the world from this roundup of over 80 orcas conducted by Ted Griffin and Don Goldsberry, partners in a capture operation known as Namu, Inc.
