Tilikum the killer whale was just two years old when he was torn away from his family off the coast of Iceland and taken to a concrete holding tank at Hafnarfjördur Marine Zoo near Reykjavík.
For almost a year, all he could do was swim in circles or float still on the surface as he waited to be shipped to Canada.
Gone were the sounds of the ocean that he had been used to for the first two years of his life, replaced with the low hum of the mechanical filtration that kept his tank clean.
