Mystery Object Found Off Helsinki Halts Passenger Ship Traffic for Hours
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Mystery object found off Helsinki halts passenger ship traffic for hours
A metal object found floating in a shipping channel off Helsinki triggered a police and coastguard operation that stopped passenger ship traffic for several hours before authorities determined that the object posed no danger. Finnish police said the object was most likely a mechanical part from an old shipwreck. The Navy confirmed in its initial assessment that the find was not an explosive.
An object found in the sea that stopped ship traffic leaving Helsinki on Saturday evening is probably part of an old shipwreck, Finnish authorities announced, and opened the sea route at night.
<p>An unknown metal object was found in the sea near Helsinki, because of this they blocked sea traffic and involved the Navy. In the Gulf of Finland, an unknown object was found on the route of passenger ships. The area was closed, the Finnish Navy was involved in identification</p>.
After an unknown object was found in the waterway, ship traffic is being restricted, Yle reports.
️ — Finnish authorities have closed a sea route off Helsinki amid a police operation in the Gulf of Finland, delaying a Viking Line ferry bound for Tallinn by nearly two hours
Finnish police said a funnel-shaped, unidentified metal object was found on a shipping lane used by passenger vessels and requested assistance from the Finnish Navy to identify...
The police tell Ilta-Sanomat that the official mission began at around 8 pm on Saturday evening.
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