For those of you who don't know Tilikums full story here's a short description of what Tilikum went through during the beginning of his life, this is based off the movie Blackfish and what I saw in the documentary. This is Tilikums story. What occurred first was that Tilikum was placed in a “marine park” in Canada after his capture with two older female orcas. This “park” was a slot in a marina with boats and the whales were contained by a net. This is where the whales entertained during the day, but at night they were placed in a pitch black holding container that measured 20 feet deep by 28 feet in diameter. Tilikum was picked on and abused by the two female whales. One of the forms of abuse is called raking, where killer whales will scratch other whales with their teeth, drawing blood and creating deep ridge like cuts in the victim’s skin. (One thing this film does talk about several times is the orca on orca abuse that happens all too often in captivity, including raking and even killing.) Tilikum was obviously under stress, as were the other two, in such reprehensible conditions. The first death at the fins of Tilikum took place here. A young girl who was hired to feed the orcas, fell into the tank and was pulled under and drowned by the whales. Two eyewitnesses in Blackfish claim that it was Tilikum who participated in most of the foul play they knew this because of his collapsed dorsal fin. This is just some of what Tilikum has faced during his lifespan.