someone told me that shamu is from a pod out of puget sound, is that true or is he just retared. another thing does anybody know of a website that talks about the old south sound orca pod, would like to know more about that pod. Ben

I am pretty sure they trapped him up in BC near a town called shamu or something like that. I could be just making stuff up in my own mind though I some times do that.

The original Shamu was taken into captivity in October 1965 and lived at Sea World of California for 6 years, before dying of septicaemia. The story of the capture and the Southern pods are on this web site...

http://www.orcanetwork.org/index.html

The capture...
http://www.orcanetwork.org/captivity/lolitacapture.html

seacat thanks, Ben