In Reply to: A Question for you posted by trisha on Tuesday, 5. December 2006 at 14:00 Bali Time:
"Underwater world is an oceanarium/aquarium located at Hillarys Boat Harbour, about 45min north of Perth. It never really meant to have dolphins. Its main drawcard is a huge aquarium with a perspex tunnel running through the bottom of it. Its very spectacular and well worth a visit. Underwater world has also become somewhat of a rehabilitation centre for marine creatures - usually seals, sea lions and turtles.
Underwater World use to have three dolphins from a closed oceanarium called Atlantis, north of Perth. Atlantis closed in 1990 and most of the dolphins were rehabilitated and re-released. It took two years with varying degrees of success. One died, two are going fine, three are outside tracking range but believed to be ok and the remaining three (Rajah, Milah and Echo) did not do too well. They were continuously begging fish from boats and they were losing condition. It was decided to re-capture them.
From 1992 to 1999 the three dolphins were housed in a large sea pen at Underwater World. The dolphins, being dolphins, produced two offspring, from Milah and (most likely) Rajah. Kila drowned when her rostrum got caught in the pen's netting. In 1998 Indianna was born, she died in the spring of 1999 from a massive bacterial infection. Then, between Christmas and New Year's Day the other three adult dolphins died. It now has no dolphins, nor active plans to repopulate. "