Tilikum, the 12,000-pound bull orca whose big splashes still climax daily SeaWorld shows, has been implicated in three human deaths, spread over his three decades of forced performances: Two trainers, ...

Tilikum was captured as a young orca and removed from his pod before he was fully grown. He spent decades performing in small tanks, far from the open ocean he was built for. Over the years, he became ...