From Sealand to the Silver Screen: Remembering Tilikum, and questioning Hollywood’s latest orca tale

From Sealand to the Silver Screen: Remembering Tilikum, and questioning Hollywood’s latest orca tale

To see it today, you’d never guess the Oak Bay Marina is where Vancouver Islanders once paid to see killer whales in captivity. But decades ago, Sealand of the Pacific stood there, and for Christopher Porter, that history isn’t distant. Porter was front and centre at Sea Land, first as a trainer and later as the facility’s director of orca training. And if he hadn’t reached out to CHEK News, a sombre anniversary may have slipped by unnoticed. Ja…