Gums it, actually. The fish wiggles free and quickly dives to the relative safety of the rocky bottom. Yank him out. Ten minutes have passed, and Keiko the killer whale still has not eaten the fish. The Game of Life In Free Willy , Keiko, a k a Willy, leaps out of the water over a rocky wall to freedom in the ocean.
Reality is less dramatic.
The nonprofit Free Willy Keiko Foundation, which now owns Keiko, would eventually like to return him to the wild, but that is something that has never been tried before. In Keiko's two years in Oregon, he has gained nearly 2,000 pounds. Skin lesions that once covered much of is body are almost all gone. When he arrived, he could hold his breath for only three minutes. Now he can stay underwater for up to 17.