Shipwreck

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Norwegian Researchers Piloting a Deep Sea Rover Stumbled Upon a Well-Preserved Medieval Shipwreck

An autonomous underwater car named Hugin is sweeping Lake Mjøsa in Norway for unexploded World Struggle II munitions dumped there between the Forties and Seventies. Piloted by researchers from the Norwegian College of Science and Expertise and the Norwegian Defence Analysis Institution, the Mission Mjøsa initiative goals to find out if the munitions pose an environmental menace to the lake,…