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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