Investigation launched for 'drunkenness at sea' after ships crash in Baltic Sea – one crew member of capsized Danish barge has died and another is still missing
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Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design
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Australia to acquire nuclear submarines through new security alliance
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Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China
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Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
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Michelin proposes putting puffy sails on cargo ships
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The untold story of the big boat that broke the world
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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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UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work
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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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Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus
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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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