Topic: - on September 4, 2002 at 12:11:34 AM CEST
Free Willy whale is a star again
Keiko the killer whale, star of the "Free Willy" movie, has turned up in a narrow Norwegian fjord, where he has made a splash with the locals.
"After the children spotted him, he popped up just a metre away from the boat. At first, we got scared and sped up to get to land, but then we realised he just wanted to play," Arild Birger Neshaug, 35, father of one of the children, told Reuters on Tuesday.
<img SRC=us.news1.yimg.com WIDTH=390HEIGHT=220 BORDER=0 alt="Keiko the killer whale, star of the "Free Willy" movie, has turned up in a narrow Norwegian fjord, where he has made a splash with the locals. The 10-metre long whale, released into the wild just six weeks ago, even allowed children to ride on his back as he put on a display for them, showing he is the same playful ocra in real life as on screen. Trainer Peter Noah works out with Keiko in the frigid waters in Klettsvik in the Westman Islands in Iceland in this 1998 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer">
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