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[00:07.47]On March Third, Keiko the whale pushed open a door and swam out of his floating cage.

[00:15.07]In doing so, he gained the most freedom he has known since he was a baby.

[00:21.11]He can now move around in all of Klettsvik Bay, in the Westman Islands off Iceland.

[00:28.16]The Atlantic Ocean bay is the size of about twenty-two soccer,football fields.

[00:35.50]It has land on three sides and the open ocean on the fourth.

[00:40.36]Barriers keep Keiko from going into the ocean.

[00:44.43]But the bay gives him far more space than his last home, which was a floating holding pen.

[00:51.54]Keiko's new world has a natural shoreline and natural bottom with rocks.

[00:57.57]Other sea creatures live in the bay.

[01:00.55]The release of Keiko into Klettsvik Bay is part of the first attempt ever

[01:06.66]to return a killer whale to the wild after years in captivity.

[01:12.15]His owner, the Ocean Futures Society,wants to increase scientific knowledge of the social activities of Orc whales.

[01:21.97]Orcs are the black and white mammals sometimes called killer whales.

[01:28.66]But there is no evidence that they have attacked humans.

[01:32.32]They probably got their name because they are among the best hunters in the oceans.

[01:38.01]Keiko brought pleasure to many people when he played Willy the whale in the 1993 movie, "Free Willy. "

[01:47.28]He also appeared in a second movie about Willy.

[01:51.57]Keiko became famous.

[01:53.74]But he was living in bad conditions in an amusement park in Mexico.

[01:59.35]His health was poor.

[02:01.73]Some experts said he would never recover enough to live in the cold ocean waters where Orcs normally swim.

[02:10.19]It took years, but Keiko has proved those experts wrong.

[02:15.24]Keiko had human help in returning to his home waters.

[02:21.40]People from all over the world made it possible for Keiko to be released into the Atlantic Ocean bay.

[02:30.23]The organization, Ocean Futures Society, is training him to survive total freedom in the ocean.

[02:38.35]The society was formed last year.

[02:42.25]It joined a Keiko support group, the Free Willy Foundation, with the Jean-Michel Costeau Institute.

[02:50.19]Jean-Michel Costeau is a leading environmentalist and ocean expert.

[02:55.99]The new organization was established to protect the oceans and the creatures who live there.

[03:03.20]Keiko the Orc probably started life very near the place where he is today.

[03:09.62]He was born in about 1978 in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland.

[03:16.60]While still a baby he was captured in fishermen's equipment.

[03:21.25]He was taken to an aquarium in Iceland so people could see him.

[03:26.65]At age four or five he began training as a performing whale.

[03:31.83]He did tricks for the public at a park in Ontario, Canada.

[03:37.05]There he developed skin problems caused by a virus. The sores on his skin remained for years.

[03:45.57]The Canadian park sold Keiko to an amusement park in Mexico City in 1985.

[03:53.38]There his keepers would throw playthings at the whale which he would return to them.

[04:00.30]He ate dead fish provided by his keepers.

[04:03.96]Representatives of Warner Brothers film studios saw Keiko perform.

[04:11.43]They chose him to appear as Willy in "Free Willy."

[04:16.34]The story is about a young boy who saves an Orca whale from a sad life in an amusement park.

[04:23.68]The public loved the movie.

[04:26.34]Keiko became well known.

[04:29.01]Yet the actor whale was not living a good life.

[04:32.85]He was extremely thin.

[04:35.28]The water in his container pool in Mexico was not seawater.

[04:41.00]It was too warm for an Orc, and it did not cover his skin. His sores were getting worse.

[04:48.81]His teeth were broken from biting the edges of his pool.

[04:52.88]He acted sad.

[04:55.24]Luckily, a story in a magazine told the public about Keiko's living conditions.

[05:03.07]Warner .Brothers and an American businessman gave 4,000,000 dollars to establish the Free Willy Foundation.

[05:11.93]Its goal was to return Keiko to the sea.

[05:15.64]An animal protection group, the Humane Society of the United States, also gave a million dollars.

[05:23.53]A second film about Willy was produced as a video.

[05:28.70]Each video contained a request to send money to move Keiko to a better home.

[05:36.22]Children and adults from all over the world answered the appeals.

[05:41.68]The Mexican amusement park said it would give Keiko to the people wanting to help him.

[05:48.73]By 1996, there was enough money to move the whale to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

[05:56.60]The special zoo for creatures that live in the water is on the Pacific Ocean in the northwest United States.

[06:05.04]Keiko now lived in a pool of ocean water.

[06:10.29]It was built especially for him. Many animal doctors worked to improve his health.

[06:17.42]Keiko gained more than one-half a ton during his first year in Oregon. "

[06:23.27]By the next year live fish were placed in his pool.

[06:27.89]The goal was to help Keiko learn to catch and eat live fish, like a normal Orc.

[06:35.83]His skin sores improved.

[06:38.08]Finally, they disappeared.

[06:40.67]After eighteen months in Oregon, Keiko had gained more than a ton.

[06:47.04]He had learned to eat live fish.

[06:49.94]The Free Willy Foundation decided he was ready for a return to the icy ocean where he was born.

[06:58.17]The next step for Keiko was the move to Iceland.