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Trainer who worked with `Free Willy' whale dies in NJ crash
One of two men who died in a plane crash in New Nersey was the trainer who prepared Keiko the whale for release into the wild.
Forty-one-year-old Stephen Claussen of Seattle was in New Jersey to study how proposed offshore wind turbines might affect birds and water mammals. He was best known for his work with the whale star of the movie "Free Willy."
Plane owner John Ambroult of Eastham, Massachusetts, also died in the crash last weekend. Two other marine mammal experts, 28-year-old Jacalyn Toth Brown of Pemberton and 43-year-old Juan Carlos Salinas of Mexico City, survived.
A cellular telephone call from Salinas led police to the wrecked Cessna in a densely wooded area in the New Jersey Pinelands on Saturday afternoon.
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Information from: The Star-Ledger, http://www.nj.com/starledger
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