Third Times’ the Charm in Torpedo Fishing
The 137-foot Danish trawler St. Anthony (L 510), while operating from her home in the small fishing village of Thyboron in Jutland– it is home to the Sea War Museum Jutland– last week pulled up something downright unfriendly from the bottom of the North Sea just off the Norwegian coast: a WWII-era German G7a torpedo.
“It’s not entirely harmless to be a fisherman. This morning we caught this torpedo 8 meters and about 2500 kg. It’s going to be a blast 5 km out on the channel tonight,” noted the vessel on social media.
The Norwegian Navy’s MCM group advised the crew that the best thing to do was to– carefully– lift it back over the side and place it back from where it came.
They then dispatched an EOD team to control-detonate it on the seafloor.
The St. Anthony‘s skipper said it was his third time pulling up old ordnance from the North Sea!