Private Research Vessel Held in Icelandic Waters

a reply to: Revolvacron

Intriguing little story this one.

'Advanced Marine Services' is a very very generic name worldwide for a shipping company - companies of the samenameare registered everywhere from Hong Kong to Delaware!

There is UK a company of the same name, as linked here

companycheck.co.uk...

with the same person a Director of Maritime Archeology Consultants Limited, which suggests this Advanced Maritime Services could well be the one, given the SS Minden story.

Aside from the Iceland intrigue I'm a little surprised by the numbers reported a negative networth of -£22.2M in 2015 improved to a negative net worth of -£24K in 2016, so an inflow somehowof over £22M in one year, which is big for a small company. Leastways this is how I read it.

The fact that 1/12 of the worlds supply of Tellurium lies on that singl peak is an interesting fact.
There are more industries that use Tellurium than Willard Whyte owned in "diamonds are forever".
One example CdZnTe was used in the direct conversion of Gamma rays to power back in the ##'s.
In 1939 Einstein was buying sandals and walking Nassau Point.

a reply to: seagull
Nothing sunk in 39 could be worth a million kroner a day, especially for the chance at finding it. Energy would be potentially worth billions and worth even the gamble of losing money.

originally posted by: ignorant_ape
how the hell could :

" hitlers body " or " the amber room " get on board a vessel scuttled in 1939 ??????????????????

Probably travelled on aliensun's time travelling spaceship

a reply to: crayzeed

In one way I assume that you are right, but in terms of salvaging a ship of another country in your waters, I suspect that, yes, you will definitely need the proper permits, but the item sought is not owned by the country where it sunk (unless, perhaps it is wartime material of an enemy).

I see that the alleged SS Trepang incident that I mentioned has been ignored. I was hoping that more details of its mysterious story would be forthcoming. 'Guess not.

a reply to: Revolvacron

Very cool! Tagging for future reading.

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

An undersea mountain full of that stuff has just been found in Tenerife so i saw on the news today. Odd that its only on one underground mountain.

a reply to: Aliensun

I'm well aware of the Trepang and it's alleged photos, I guess the reason that more information isn't more forthcoming here is because this thread is completely unrelated?

Thanks for all the input so far, I caught that the registered "Advanced Marine Services" in the UK had shared a CEO with that Marine Archaelogy group, and all this info on seabed minerals is quite fascinating.

a reply to: Revolvacron

my best guess they were going to put up a rig in icelandic waters for uk and got stopped by coast guard

Thanks OP - this is the ATS that I love best. Could be resin from Brazil, looking for oil or an alien spacecraft/base. Love it !

Is there by chance an exact location for where they were operating? There's two good possibilities for what might have been going on there: either someone is trying to tap the undersea communications cables in that area (several very large and important ones run through the North Sea in that area, connecting North America to Europe), or somebody is planting detection equipment/listening posts again. The "GIUK Gap" as it's called is the only access point to the Atlantic for Russian naval vessels, particularly submarines operating out of the Kola Peninsula. During the Cold War the whole place was lousy with SOSUS hydrophone arrays, Royal Navy ASW fleets and Soviet recon planes.

a reply to: Ridhya

It's my understanding that the steel/iron used to build the ships is worth quite a lot due to the absence of some contaminant related to atomic testing from the late 40's. I'm the wrong person to ask about that, though... This post is about the sum total of my knowledge on the topic.

Thanks Seagull. Very intresting.

Low-background steel

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Live Science History WWII Shipwrecks 'Vanish' After Plundering by Illegal Scavengers

By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor |November 22, 2016 10:37am ET

www.livescience.com...

Royal Navy WW2 wrecks 'disappear' after being destroyed by scrap metal scavengers.

www.telegraph.co.uk...

a reply to: seagull
Interesting, and still more than my knowledge on that topic. But I expect if ore can be contaminated by radiation, then the sea is not going to protect the scrap. Either way, it's not going to offset what they are claiming as costs.



a reply to: Aliensun
As said above it is not only off topic but a different time period. But if you're interested, we've already concluded that mystery. They're Navy target balloons

originally posted by: Revolvacron
Hey folks,

Allow me to start by saying that this seems like quite a small story and probably doesn't impact any of you at all, but considering that I know you all love a little mystery, please take the time to have a read of what will follow:

A Norwegian owned research vessel, Seabed Constructor, which was brought to harbour on Sunday by the Icelandic Coast Guard on suspicion of being engaged in unauthorized marine research, has been cleared to leave harbour. It has, however, been banned from engaging in any further research in Icelandic waters..

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Given the above, if proven accurate and correct, does anyone have any compelling ideas or lines of enquiry about such happenings?

Interesting stuff - I just came across this story elsewhere, and had me go "Hm....". This is in fact perfect ingredients for an X-Files episode.

If they were just milling about looking at the old wreck, why the secrecy and wringing of fists?

Either possibility - some "unknown" cargo aboard the wreck, or something completely unrelated - are tasty morsels of mystery that's just perfect for a place like this.

a reply to: Natas0114

On it.

a reply to: Revolvacron

I turns out they were hunting for a 'Nazi gold ship' known as 'SS Minden', which reportedly 'sank off the coast of Iceland on September 24, 1939 after WWII began'.

British Treasure Hunters Searching For Nazi Gold Ship

a reply to: MerkabaTribeEntity

Nice! Have only just got back to the country. Good find, it is the Mail though