Barents Sea
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Sep 10, 2026
Klaus DoddsGUEST
So one of the things I would say is that Here, we are increasingly worried about subsea critical infrastructure and really what challenge Russia poses.
Klaus DoddsGUEST
And that will start in the North Sea, the English Channel, but it will go all the way up to the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, and yet again, places like the Bear Gap.
Klaus DoddsGUEST
are assuming ever greater strategic interest, shall we say, in the UK.
Klaus DoddsGUEST
And as you know, we have a very special relationship with Norway in defence and security matters.
Eva HeinNARRATOR
Erik Sundqvist, our overall expedition head, is the closest thing to an alpha the Swedish counterpart to my own northern stoicism, though far gruffer.
Eva HeinNARRATOR
He once captained icebreakers in the Barents, and every line on his face looks carved by salt wind.
Eva HeinNARRATOR
Keep it simple, keep it safe, is his near-daily mantra.
Eva HeinNARRATOR
But I've never seen him this troubled.
speaker_1HOST
Huge.
speaker_1HOST
It casts a permanent strategic shadow over Norway, the Barents Sea, and the critical North Atlantic reinforcement routes.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, so the capability is there.
speaker_1HOST
It is, however, because their conventional capacity is heavily constrained by ongoing operational demands elsewhere, they really can't afford to mass troops on the NATO border.
speaker_4NARRATOR
denmark said that it had already in its possession islands and fiords on the line of the polar circle where their colonies had been founded such as disco island in the davis channel the settlements of holstein of proven of godhaven of upper nawick in the baffin sea and on the west coast of greenland Besides, did not the famous navigator Bering, of Danish origin, although he was then in the service of Russia, in the year 1728, pass over the channel which afterwards carried his name, before he started again, thirteen years later, and died miserably with thirty of his men on a little island which also carries his distinguished name? In the year 1619 did not the navigator Jean Monck explore the east coast of Greenland and discover several points formerly totally unknown? Therefore, Denmark had, she thought, undisputable rights to be proprietor of these regions.
speaker_4NARRATOR
In regard to Holland, there were her sailors Barents and Heemskerk, who had visited the Spitsbergen and the New Zealand, about the end of the sixteenth century.
speaker_4NARRATOR
It was by one of her children, too, Jean Mayenne, through whose courageous campaign against the North, the island which carries his name, came in their possession.
speaker_4NARRATOR
It is situated below the seventy-second degree of latitude.
Stephen BullGUEST
Norway's increased as much gas as it can.
Stephen BullGUEST
We'll have to find more gas, and it will have to be in the Barents Sea.
Stephen BullGUEST
So it's, uh, controversial in the European context there, and it takes years, you know, these decades to bring this on.
Stephen BullGUEST
So again, urgency.
Emma NelsonHOST
We sometimes forget just how strategically critical Norway is, don't we?
Ash BhardwajGUEST
Yeah, and it's partly because, as we've just heard, a large part of the Russian nuclear enterprise, nuclear weaponry systems, and the Barents fleet, I think they call it, or the North Sea fleet, the fleet that's based around there, and Archangel, which is just beyond from Murmansk.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
So if you're trying to create a strategic concern for NATO, one of the ways you can do it, if you're Russian... is come around through the Arctic and put nuclear submarines into the North Atlantic.
Ash BhardwajGUEST
And between Norway, Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, there's this whole area that you need to monitor if you're NATO with submarines, sonar sensors, various other methods.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Her name was Prince Charles.
speaker_4NARRATOR
large British diesel trawler, completed in 1953 and built for distant water fishing along the Norwegian coast and in the Barents Sea.
speaker_4NARRATOR
In December 1955, she was less than three years old, making her an unusually good match for Breen's New English large trawler.
speaker_4NARRATOR
And Prince Charles carried 21 crewmen, which also fits Breen's description of at least eight men being awake while the rest slept below.
speaker_4NARRATOR
On December 3rd, 1955, she sailed from Grimsby for the Barents Sea.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Breen never gives the date of his encounter, only that it happened shortly before Christmas at 0435 Greenwich Mean Time, while the trawler was still fishing.
speaker_4NARRATOR
If the encounter occurred on December 21st, Prince Charles could have been trawling in precisely that region.
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speaker_4NARRATOR
And this is where Prince Charles becomes so interesting.
WilkinHOST
It's a cliché, I know, but I'd worked a dozen salvage divies in polar latitudes by then, enough to believe I understood the kind of cold that seeps into bones, freezes breath to mist.
WilkinHOST
But when we crept up on the dead trawler that February night, the Barents Sea air felt different.
WilkinHOST
The cold pressed against the base of my skull, like some alert animal waiting in the dark.
WilkinHOST
The bridge of the Norwegian icebreaker Juvia glowed green, backlit by radar screens and the ghost shadow of snow outside.
JaredHOST
While they sit, freezing, injured, and terrified.
JaredHOST
By this point, the world has become aware of the tragedy unfolding at the bottom of the Barents Sea.
JaredHOST
And the Russian media reports are confusing.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One channel said, the crew is alive.
JaredHOST
By day three, the Russians continue to pretend they've got things under control, saying the Kursk had simply malfunctioned.
JaredHOST
They make the outrageous claim that communication has been established, and that water and oxygen are being delivered.
JaredHOST
As international rescue teams race towards the Barents Sea, the family's anger becomes impossible to ignore.
JaredHOST
The country's deputy prime minister, Ilya Klabinov, meets them in person.
Thórhildur Davíðsdóttir SæbækGUEST
Uh, the US has been a historically very strong ally for Iceland, but, like, now with the new leadership, they're becoming a more unreliable, untrustworthy, you can't really know what they're gonna do next.
Shaun LeyHOST
Magnía, d- does that worry you, what's happening around Iceland at the moment? You know, the arguments over Greenland, the kind of, uh, the activities of, uh, Russian submarines coming out of the Barents Sea, and so on.
Magnía JóhannesdóttirGUEST
People are saying the world around us is changing, and that's very true, that the world is changing.
Magnía JóhannesdóttirGUEST
But I do think that that does not mean that we have to lock ourselves in a trade agreement with the European Union.
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