Estonia Launches Navy to Protect Baltic Sea Power Link After Baltic Sea Outages
in our region, there will also be a response," Tsahkna said on social media X.The 658 megawatt (MW) Estlink 2 outage began at midday local time on Wednesday, leaving only the 358 MW Estlink 1 in operation between the two countries, operators Fingrid and Elering have said.Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on Friday that the Baltic country had despatched a patrol ship, the Raju, to the waters where the Estlink 1 runs, and that the country hoped NATO allies would also deploy ships.(Reuters - Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Terje Solsvik and Tomasz Janowski
Sabotage: Two Undersea Cables Cut in Baltic Sea
Sweden's Arelion to carry Telia Lietuva's internet traffic, the Telia spokesperson said."It is absolutely central that it is clarified why we currently have two cables in the Baltic Sea that are not working," Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Sweden's minister of civil defence, told Swedish public broadcaster SVT.Located in northern Europe, the Baltic Sea is an active commercial shipping route and is ringed by nine countries including Russia.The damage to the Finland-Germany cable occurred near the southern tip of Sweden's Oland Island and could require five to 15 days to repair, Cinia's
Russian 'Spy Whale' Hvaldimir Found Dead Near Norway
to the non-profit organization that had been monitoring the whale.The body of Hvaldimir - a combination of the Norwegian word for whale and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin - was spotted floating in the sea by a father and son fishing in southern Norway over the weekend, Norwegian public broadcaster NRK reported."Hvaldimir was not just a beluga whale; he was a beacon of hope, a symbol of connection, and a reminder of the deep bond between humans and the natural world," the Marine Mind NGO said on social media.Hvaldimir was wearing a harness with what appeared to be a mount for
Gallery: Wreckage of Major German World War Two Warship Discovered Off Norway
was first detected in 2017 just 15 meters (50 feet) from a subsea power cable that has been operating since 1977.Built in the 1920s, the ship was later fitted with a Nazi-era swastika that was also captured in subsea images taken by Statnett and its partners, and first televised by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.The 174-meter vessel, part of the German force that invaded Norway in April 1940, was struck by a British submarine torpedo shortly after starting its return voyage from the southern Norwegian port of Kristiansand.The ship's crew subsequently evacuated and the vessel was finally sunk
Norway Mulls Reducing Stakes in Telenor, Kongsberg Gruppen
Norway's center-right minority government considers reducing its stake in the telecommunications company Telenor to 34 percent, the public broadcaster NRK said on Thursday evening. The government also considers reducing its stake to 34 percent in Kongsberg Gruppen, the broadcaster added. Minister of Trade, Industry and Fisheries Monica Maeland told NRK she will ask the parliament for permission to reduce the stakes from the current 54 percent in Telenor and 50 percent in the industrial group Kongsberg Gruppen. (Reporting by Camila Knudsen, writing by Nerijus Adomaitis)
AMS Helps to Keep "Giant Squid" Divers Safe
the project, ensuring safe conditions at all times for the crew and scientists on board. Footage of the giant squid will be premiered in Discovery TV’s Monster Squid: The Giant is Real on Sunday, 27th January, 2013 (8pm ET/PT). Discovery Channel joined forces with NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, to organize the project to film the creature, which has to date only been captured in still photographs. The submersibles used for the project were organized by Mark Taylor of Manned Sub International, who has worked with AMS for a number of years. More than 55 submersible
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