Norway arrested a ship that could damage the fiber in the Baltic: what the Russian crew says

Reuters reported the reaction of militiamen to the incident in the Baltic. The portal said that the Norwegian police arrested Silcer Dania because of the probable involvement in the cable breakdown in the Baltic Sea. In this case, the ship swims under the flag of Norway, and its crew is completely made up of citizens of the Russian Federation, it is said in the article. The detention was conducted by militiamen of Tromose at the request of Latvia.

"It is suspected that the ship was involved in serious damage to the fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea between the Latvia and Sweden," the police said. It is specified that Silcer Dania was a route from St. Petersburg to Murmansk. From the possible point in which the cable was cut to the place of detention in Tromose - almost 3 thousand km. The Fiskeribladett portal spoke about the adventures of Silver Dania and the Russian crew.

It is stated that it is the property of the Norwegian shipping company Silver Sea from Bergen. The Owner of Tormood Fossarck told reporters that the ship was quietly floating at 13. 5 knots (about 24 km/h) and the crew did no harm to anyone. "We did not do anything wrong. We were currently sailing through the corresponding area near Gotland at 13. 5 nodes. We had no anchor," the NRK's ​​shipowner made a comment, which, to everything, published a trajectory of the vessel.

In the meantime, investigators spoke about the features of Silver SEA. As it turned out, it is the only company that transports fish from the Netherlands to Murmansk in the Russian Federation. The only one because the Dutch government banned such activities and all the Norwegian shipowners have abandoned it. The Fossarka judgment visited Svalbard and took fish from Russian fishermen. Investigators wrote that the Silver SEA turnover grew significantly in the period 2021 to 2023.

They also reminded that earlier in Sweden detained Vezhen Balkker, which was suspected of a optic fiber in the Baltic Sea. It should be noted that Focus wrote about other incidents in the Baltic Sea with fiber optic cables. One of these cases occurred in November 2024. The cable, which was walking along the bottom of the sea from Finland to Germany, broke off for unknown reasons. To find the place of the break, divers have to inspect 1 200 km of fiber.