Orcas have never killed anyone in the wild (at least according to existing records). One tried briefly to flush a film cew from an ice flow, possibly because the barking sled dogs sounded like seals, and another bumped a child splashing in the shallows off Alaska (probably the safest part of such an activity), realising it wasn't prey at the last minute.
The thing is, dolphin shows are pretty vile, but their exposure there is probably responsible for the orca not being a threatened species today.
However, orcas that survive infancy live on average 50 years in the wild (one was known from 1840 to 1930), but usually survive only to their twenties in captivity. It's the health equivalent of sending a person to the gulag.
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