“I couldn’t watch him die slowly.” These are Walter (79) and Karin (63), the benefactors who already paid 1.5 million to see Timmy swim

Experts had long given up on Timmy, but two German millionaires — Karin Walter-Mommert (63) and Walter Gunz (79) — did not stop there. They financed the whale rescue operation, spent at least 1.5 million euros and look: Timmy is swimming again and spraying a water fountain. Who are those two and why did they persevere? “I now love that animal as much as my dog,” says Walter Gunz.

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