Norwegian fishermen accidentally caught U.S. sub in net

A Norwegian sportfishing unit was amazed this week by the day’s big, uncommon drawback — a U.S. submarine longer than a shot field.

Harald Engen was delivering halibut to a colony connected Norway’s westbound seashore erstwhile helium got a connection that a U.S. submarine had gotten entangled successful his 32-foot boat’s trawl nets portion sailing adjacent the aboveground and were dragging them retired to sea, broadcaster NRK News reported.

The 377-foot, 7,800-ton, nuclear-powered USS Virginia was headed to larboard with a Norwegian Coast Guard vas escorting. The Coast Guard unit needed to chopped the submarine free.

“I cognize astir different vessels that person sailed implicit sportfishing nets, but nary 1 retired present person ever heard astir a submarine doing so,” Engen said.

Lt. Pierson Hawkins, a spokesperson for the US 6th Fleet, told Insider nary 1 was wounded and the Navy was looking into what precisely happened.

The nonstop crushed for the sub’s determination was not given, but the vessels bash aboveground to bring aboard supplies and caller unit members from a cooperating vessel, similar 1 from an state seashore defender oregon navy.

Both the Norwegian Coast Guard and U.S. Navy indicated the fisherman would beryllium reimbursed for the destroyed nets.

A similar incidental turned tragic successful 1999 erstwhile a British sportfishing boat’s nett was snared by a Royal Navy sub, sinking the vessel and sidesplitting the four-person crew.