Sealand of the Pacific sold their orcas to which US chain of parks?
Sealand of the Pacific Sealand of the Pacific was a public aquarium in South Oak Bay at The Oak Bay Marina, near the city of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. It housed a number of orcas, Haida, Nootka, and Tillikum. In 1991, all three were involved in an incident in which a trainer, Keltie Byrne, was killed. The aquarium subsequently closed and sold its orcas to SeaWorld.
American Pacific Whaling Company American Pacific Whaling Company was a 20th century whaling company. The fleet worked the North Pacific and wintered in Meydenbauer Bay on Lake Washington, now part of Bellevue, Washington. The company was founded in Seattle 1911 and possibly renamed to North Pacific Sea Products when subsumed by Consolidated Whaling Company with Canadian ownership in 1918. In 1919, the company moved its headquarters to Bellevue. American Pacific owned a whaling station at Bay City on Grays Harbor that operated between 1910 and 1925, processing up to 300 sperm, humpback,and finback whales a year.