Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
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Mutiny on the sex raft: How a 70s science project descended into violent chaos
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Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
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Bridge transported along Rotterdam river
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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Supply bottlenecks leave dozens of container ships anchored off California coast
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Crew declared dead as lost Indonesian submarine found broken into pieces
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Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
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Massive container ship stuck in Suez Canal, blocking world's busiest shipping route
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Snøhetta, the world's first tunnel for large ships, has been approved and will soon begin looking for contractors in Norway – expected to begin construction in 2022
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I like that the boat is stuck
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Multiple US Navy destroyers were swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California over numerous nights
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Friedman Adventures Podcast Special - May 19th 1986 Rescue At Sea
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A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century?
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Shipping carriers rejected tons of US agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China instead
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Two documentary makers have gone on trial in Sweden concerning the illegal exploration of the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster wreck
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A sea story
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Sweden looks to change law so 1994 ferry disaster can be re-examined – new documentary questions findings of original investigation
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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Norway pioneered electric ferries – now it's making them self-driving
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Wallenius Marine is developing a ship called Oceanbird, which could transport 7,000 cars and trucks across the Atlantic propelled only by the wind
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Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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Ammonia on route to fuel ships and planes
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A group of migrants rescued by a Danish tanker in the Mediterranean have been allowed to land in Italy after more than forty days at sea
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles
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Murders, megaprojects and a 'new Panama Canal' in Mexico
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ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The day the pirates came
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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Shipments of SUVs wait out at at sea, revealing scope of US auto market glut
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Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess
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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
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How the virus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt may help coronavirus researchers
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Australian, US vessels in South China Sea as China flexes muscles
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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken US aircraft carrier finds that about 60% of positive cases have not shown symptoms
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