Stolen from the wild, torn from their families, shoved in a bathtub, forced to perform tricks for food, deprived of their right to live free. End this abuse!

Listening to that music all day is probably driving them crazy, it would me

Tilly is now free in Heaven after years of suffering. I wished he could have been free when he was still alive, swimming in his native Iceland waters, eating fresh herring fish along with his family.

The music is awful.

these trainers probably genuinely love the whales in their own way but are so terribly misguided that they become immune to the cruelty these animals endure while in captivity. it goes back to if you truly love them let them free. it put tears in my eyes hearing the audience cheer while these poor whales are forced to preform

Even after Dawn passed away they were like “the show must go on” this is so sad

Whale and dolphin shows should be illegal. Keeping them in tanks is so wrong

As beautiful as that show was, it makes me sick watching it. Knowing that these incredible and intelligent creatures are being locked in a tiny pool while being forced to do silly tricks for food makes me absolutely sick. Would like to see a video of one of the CEOs of SeaWorld being locked into that pool with those whales for just one hour when they're having a very, very bad day.

I'm just going to point out that the finale of these shows is usually halfway through the lyrics of We're One. But this time Tilikum delayed his daughter and the other 4 orcas from starting when the trainers wanted them to, so the finale was synced perfectly. Hmmm... Call it coincidence if you will, but I think Tilikum has been in SeaWorld for so long he knew the timing of We're One and did that on purpose. Which is not only clever & admirable, but equally grim if you think about it.

Jeez...Tilikum was an absolute unit. I'd be beyond terrified to get in the water with him. Just based on size alone. Hell, any one of them. No matter what people say about them in the wild...I'll respect these guys from the safe embrace of KZfaq.

Rest in peace, Tilly. May you be able to swim free in heaven. You touched hearts. We love you

LIKE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE SEAWORLD CEO'S THROWN IN THE TANK WITH THE WHALES DURING THE SHOW!

Glad to see a lot of empty seats up there, I truly hope people are finally seeing this for cruel moneymaking the circus it is.

Are you kidding me? He spent years of his life there just to splash his tail at people and pose at the end a couple of times a day, then spend the rest of his day swimming in circles in a tank....

I wish they wouldn’t allow breeding of any orcas. No more dolphin breeding or shows. When I was a little girl my father knew the trainer of flipper. His name was rick. He told us he couldn’t capture or train another dolphin ever again after his favorite dolphin Sandy suffered from depression and committed suicide after she looked him in the eye. Let all the air out of her lungs and floated to the bottom of the training area. The vision haunts him to this day.

look at tilicum's dorsal fin. it's supposed to be straight up, not flopped over. that's animal cruelty.

When he zoomed in on the eyes of Tilikum, my heart dropped.

Since this is a heavy topic in the comments: The dorsal fin for wild and captive orcas. Living in Washington, where we have orcas, I have never seen one breach the surface with a collapsed dorsal fin. But, after researching it this does (though quite rarely) happen in the wild. A typical behavior of wild orcas is swimming hundreds of miles in a straight line. This allows for the dorsal fin to have regular muscle activity, keeping it strong. If an orca for some reason does not swim this way (illness, injury or such) their dorsal fin starts to show signs of stain and starts to collapse. There have been reports in areas of ocean containing oil spills of having a high number of orcas dorsal collapse. Every single captive orca has a collapsed dorsal fin. Fully or on the verge. They do because they do not have the opportunity to swim long distances, and only in circles. The dorsal fin does not have any bones, very little biological foundation for self sustainability. The condition of the dorsal fin is an indicator of the health and mobility of the individual orca. That being said, orcas born in captivity that have this condition not only have very little chance of having normal wild born capabilities because of this damage, this and unknown wild orca behaviors and socialization gives them a major disadvantage if released. I'm happy SeaWorld has phased out the dolphin and orca show.

I honestly would rather see them froloking at sea in their pods making their cute noises.

Disgusting that they keep these animals captive!!! People should stand together and boycott SeaWorld!!!

19:28 it happend

Tilikum decided he was going to stay in the show and leave when he wanted to. RIP sweet angel.

the awful loud music doesn't just drive people crazy but I am sure the whales also!

Lol he just pushed that gate open like I’ll do what I want! This shows how easy the orcas can control the gates though. Thanks for the video.

I have children I refuse to let them come to places like this. I don’t even like going to the zoo and see animals. They look so sad to me

Music is horrible. Orcas should not be in captivity. Sea World separates mothers from calves. Its no wonder they can't take it anymore. Leave them alone!!

If people stopped going to see such shows then hopefully this would stop these animals on not meant to be kept in tanks they should be free in the ocean such a shame and you wonder why they are attacking trainers they are not happy all this for money

The whale may not have minded doing these tricks when it was young, but I can't imagine how such an intensely intelligent animal wouldn't be bored after years and years of doing the same thing. They are hunters and strategists, they were meant to use their own minds and to explore. I wonder if years in captivity retards their true mental growth?

He swims in that big ole ocean now!! Finally free, tilikum!! You're finally free. Beautiful orca...

please dont ever blame these animals, they are prisoners and they are beautiful creatures.

Tilly just stayed right behind that gate door watching everyone else have all the fun... As if he's wondering why he can't be out there too... "What did I do to be in trouble?" 🖤🥺💔🥺🌑 🤍🙏🏻God Bless Tilly's soul (& Keiko's also)🙏🏻🤍

I'm glad he's not suffering anymore. I wish I'd known what I do about sea world now when I visited the park in 99 because I would've refused to go.

I agree with you about the eyes. We will never go to sea world again.

If I was tortured with that loud crap music I would ram my head too. 😣

Just awful to see the large and majestic animals cooped up and forced to perform these shows for greedy humans. Really makes me sad and angry.

you can see his dorsal fin is completely bent over my god this is so tragic .

Orcas are not meant to be an amusement attraction, they should be in their natural environment!

This is so unnatural it's appalling

I love 💘 Tilikum ...4 ever & always!

I'm sorry, but I see sadness in the whales eyes! 12:01

THESE ANIMALS ARE DRUGGED AND STARVED

Shame on the spectators. Shame on the trainers. Shame shame shame on Sea World!

Just hurts me to see this. So glad he's free now.

My heart.... To see him take another look out of that gate before vanishing into the back. I would have never wished that horrific life upon any of them. I run an equine rescue and rehab equine and large breed dogs with people problems Amd most have seen years and years of neglect and abuse, as well as pulling many from feedlots bound for slaughter because they are unmanageable, rank or violently aggressive. I’m able to understand and work with these amazing Amd majestic creatures. But not because I see myself as smarter, or the more intelligent species, almost the opposite.. They are more deeply emotional, communicate on much deeper levels and i was once just as broken as so many of them were and are. I get them, and understand. Once his life became what it was, and all he knew, he could only show and display his confusion, displeasure and frustration in but so many ways. Like I tell my lesson students, we cannot expect them to learn our language, how vain of us for starters. So it is up to us to learn how to speak theirs, as it is we, who are asking something of them. So we need to humble ourselves, open our eyes, ears, minds, hearts, and dig deeper, find our ability to create a deeper connection with these amazing and majestic creatures on THEIR level, NOT ours. To deny him compassion, companionship, interaction, and understanding after that had become his life and all he had come to know and understand.. I doubt he truly understood he would “break” his trainer Dawn so completely when he wanted to just yet again, explain his frustrations or unhappiness. As it never did sound like a true aggressive or violent attack to me. Just a frustrated young man that forgot how big and strong he really was. And because of that and yet again the situation we as humans put him in, he was made to suffer for it in the most horrific and unnatural ways the rest of his life. In my world, had he been a horse, that would have had to suffer so unjustly and sadly, I would have humanly euthanized him to save him the unkind, undignified and painful, unnatural existence since release back into the wild was never a safe option for him. We saw that proven first hand with poor Keiko. Sadly, I’m broken hearted his life ever ended up being the sad story and existence it was, and that it came to and end the way it did. But that the worlds saddest and loneliest Black Whale is finally free again, I hope his soul and spirit are at least soaring across the oceans again.

😞 so sad. His dorsal fin clearly represents how defeated he was. Dorsal collapse is not normal for any free orca.

These Seaworld Places should be banned Orca's need to be in the wild not in tanks.

I can't stand watching anymore of this display I feel so sad for these poor creatures, they are stolen from they're mum's as babies and never to see her again then to be put in a cage then drugged and starved to do tricks what a wonderful and happy life they lead. Perfect

I am ashamed of Seaworld. One year ago, Tilikum passed away, and on Tilikum's day of death the next year, Seaworld did nothing but greedily taking the money that Tilikum produced for them and not giving a s*** about the day of Tilikum's death. They didn't even give a few words to celebrate his so called "great" life. He was supposedly "surrounded by family and his loyal trainers" when he died. If Seaworld didn't give a S***, than you know they knew of his miserable life.

Tilikum is like, "Yo, I was slayin' out there! Be back in a minute, gonna give 'em an encore."

Poor whales. I was surprised to find out how smart and emotional they are. That makes this even more sad.

These animals have no choice. They are merely responding to cues, and hoping for food. They don't care about all the happy clapping and music. Thrills all the people watching. The whales could care less. Notice how there was no clapping or fish when Tilly didn't go back where he was supposed to. Can only imagine he was "punished" for disrupting what they call a "show". They all just stood around not knowing what to do because Tilly was doing his own thing. Seaworld should be prosecuted for kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and shut down. They had no right to steal these animals from their families in the beginning. But made billions of dollars from it. Should be outlawed. I don't know why it isn't already.

Poor thing. These places need to be shut down just like the circuses.

He wasn't done....he's the boss around there. One last lap around the pool wasn't too much to ask for

I don't know what some people see in these kind of shows. I think is sad, nothing else.

I just cannot imagine the life...I know if you tap on a fish tank, it's painful to them. This is nothing about love. These humans have a misinterpreted idea of true unconditional love.

THIS IS SO SAD!!! POOR TILLY!! I

Sadness for these animals. They live in saltwater naturally over thousands of miles. . SW puts them in chlorinated water where they get infections and hurt themselves in tiny cages. Sad.

Tilikum was a big boy 💜

When humans go extinct. I’m willing to bet no animal will shed a tear. We as humans are so cruel we can’t even be respectful to our own kind. Mass incarceration’s due to the corrupt justice system and private prison facilities.we even have humans suffering from pain. But yet do to money, and job security. Cronic pain suffers are taken off there pain meds only to suffer or commit suicide. Our day is coming one day we will be torn from earth like a cancer. The funny thing is. Our extinction will be caused by human error and stupidity.

After what happened I know it's not tilly fault as he shouldn't of been captured in the first place but I'd never trust him when he was swimming near

Those poor beautiful animals, you can see the pain in their eyes. Their spirit has been broken. Watching this makes me feel ill.

When does he ran the gate?

May he Rest in peace

Wow!! Great video!! Poor animals confined like that. The music drives me crazy I couldn’t sit thru a show if I had to hear that annoying LOUD music!!!

These places need closing down let them go live a good life where they belong

Tilikum is a beautiful animal. I hope people don't misinterpret this wild animal.

What happened to his body after he died?? Does anyone know?

Beautiful Tili!!! :(

This is so cruel and sad

💖💖💖Y love you....Tilikum 💖💖💖Forever 💕💕💕

Poor baby didn't want to get locked up again

Ive never been, but looks so corny of the trainers all dancing in sync like a boy band. Seems disrespectful of the whales.

Did Tilikum only do the Splash? since the beginning of the shamu show when he was at Seaworld? Or did he in the past more of the show?

Why am I crying

It all feels so wrong.. Poor babies

They are so beautiful

One Ocean... What an ironic name.

Tilikum16 i hate to ask this question... But I'm not familiar with SWF'S Orcas... How can i tell Kayla apart from Malia, Nalani, and her mother Katina? Can you help me with iding them?

Tilikum's finally free

It is both amazing and sad what these animals are capable of in these shows.

Poor Tilikum, his dorsal fin is an outward sign of his sadness. I know that's not scientifically accurate but that's what I think of when I see it.

#FreeOrcas

Eventhough he killed people, for me Tilikum was cute and innocent😞

I LOVE YOU TILIKUM EVER FOR EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What depth is the pool?

So sad! Shame on Seaworld! Just take a look at the dorsel fin!!!

16;44 she just fed him a bucket of water? NO FISH!

And if you don’t like this, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING IT

This hurts my heart he was watching so sad.

you personally recorded the entirety of the content thats on your channel? you must practically live at sea world, at a number of sea worlds from the looks of it.

Don’t get me wrong, the show pools are nice and big but nowhere near how big the whales need them to be. This is a nice pool to put small fish into

Poor Tili, he's free now 😢

Rip tilly

rip who was in the pool doing Splash /Were one? nvm I’m dumb

It's wonderful to see the staff having such a great time, dancing and clapping, too bad the animals aren't having a good a time. They need to close these places.

This was not right.... and ended up badly... RIP Tilikum and Dawn !!

These whales need so much more room to swim and befree

Boycott Seaworld!

You say he was coming back to do one more lap in the main pool but we all know he was coming back to add to his kill count.

I'd be more impressed if they befriended wild orcas and managed to train them...