Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Free Willy Style

One of two men killed in a plane crash in Ocean County last week was the mammal trainer who prepared Keiko, the whale in the movie Free Willy, to be released into the wild.

Stephen Claussen, 41, of Seattle, was in New Jersey studying how proposed offshore wind turbines might affect birds and water mammals. A cell-phone call from Salinas at 4:03 p.m. led state police to the wrecked Cessna in dense woods in the Pinelands.

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