Fishermen pull up net to find dead body
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A group of fishermen pulled up a dead body in the trawl net of their ship while travelling across the Arctic Ocean, police said. “We first thought there only were some clothes in the back of the trawl net,” Kjetil Ervik, the ship’s captain, told the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK. The Barents Sea is divided between Russian and Norwegian territorial waters and contain 5‑13 per cent of the world’s untapped oil and 20-30 per cent of the world’s untapped gas.
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