Sam Colbert
speaker
85 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Sam Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He played Free Willy in the 1993 film.
After retiring from the silver screen, he was brought here, and that chain once supported the underwater net that kept him penned in.
For four years, a team here slowly re-habituated Keiko to life in the wild, and in 2002, they finally released him into the open ocean.
It didn't go well.
The next year, he developed pneumonia and died in a Norwegian fjord.
Observers considered the project a failure.
But what about Keiko's four happy years in Iceland?
Maybe that was the model to replicate.
So, nearly two decades later, a charity called the Sea Life Trust tried to build on that legacy.
They brought Little White and Little Grey to the same bay in Iceland.
the tubalugas would receive round-the-clock care in a netted portion of the bay.
They'd never be fully released, but they could live out their remaining years in this bigger and more natural setting.
Well, that was the idea.
When I visited the island this spring, the girls weren't in the bay.
They were in another indoor pool, in the island's fishing village, about the same size as the one they'd left.
It's been seven years since they arrived here.
What happened?
In the beginning, the team was waiting for a months-long stretch of good weather.
The whales hadn't been outside in eight years, and their first taste of freedom should be a positive one.
And when they first went out into the bay in the summer of 2020, Jana says the signs were encouraging.
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