Monday, November 18, 2024

Norwegians Fishing For Halibut Catch A U.S. Nuclear Submarine

Apparently it's catch-and-release, no taking it home to show the kids.

From the Barents Observer, November 15:

Norwegian fishermen snagged U.S. nuclear-powered submarine
The young men were sailing for halibut, but instead got a cruise-missile attack submarine.

“We had just emptied the nets and put them out again, and was on our way back to shore at Sommarøya when we were called by the Coast Guard on channel 16 on the VHF-radio,” says Harald Engen (22) to NRK Troms. Engen is captain on Øygutt, the 10 meters small fishing vessel.

The Coast Guard could inform that a submarine had sailed into the net and dragged it two nautical miles north were it was cut off.

The net is lost deep down, but the fishermen in their early 20s now have a good story to tell at the local pub. 

“I know about other vessels that have sailed over fishing nets, but no-one out here have ever heard about a submarine doing so,” says Engen.

The incident occurred outside Malangen, west of Tromsø on the coast to the Norwegian Sea....

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