by robwick | Mar 23, 2023
One of the most daring clandestine operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, with its purported cargo of heavy water destined for the Nazis’ secret atomic bomb project. Heavy water is a form of water with a unique atomic structure...
by robwick | Mar 23, 2023
PIANOSA ISLAND, AUV SURVEY (2009) The island of Pianosa, part of Italy’s Tuscan archipelago, is located approximately 60 km east of the Italian mainland and 15 km south of Elba Island. Notable as the place the Emperor Augustus exiled his nephew Agrippa Posthumous in...
by robwick | Mar 20, 2023
Promare, in cooperation with the Norwegian Maritime Museum, has been surveying selected parts of the Norwegian coast and waterways in search of submerged Viking Ships. In 2012 the Norwegian Maritime Museum received a tip about an interesting shipwreck in the southern...
