the Navy found a boat on the ocean floor in Fensfjorden, the border between Hordaland and Sogn and Fjordane counties, during a rehearsal with the KNM Olav Tryggvason Tuesday.
It informs the Western police district in a press release.
Police department was contacted and has now started work to investigate whether the Norwegian findings may be the same boat that probably went on a cut west of Rongevær in november last year, called it in the message.
– the Conversation was broken
It was at the end of november that it was started a large-scale search group consisting after the captain of a ship Jan Rydheim (56).
The missing 56-year-old was, according to the NTB on the way from Sandnessjøen in Nordland to Hjellestad outside of Bergen to sell their boat. During the trip, he spoke with a friend on the phone, which suddenly heard a thud. Then the call will be disconnected.
his Friend got in touch with the rescue centre and reported him missing.
MISSING: Jan Rydheim (56) from Sandnessjøen has been missing since november of last year. Now suggest too much that he soon can be found. Photo: Private Show more
Both the Norwegian society for sea rescue, Red Cross, and crews from the Armed forces participated in the search, and the search was later concentrated in an area west of Rongevær in Austrheim. It had, however, terminated due to bad weather, without findings.
We searched the area where the boat supposedly has gone aground and sunk. It is a large area if we are to seek further, because it is deep and a lot of power, said sheriff Kjell Idar Vangberg in Nordhordland lensmannsdistrikt to Bergensavisen at the time.
– Kin is contacted
the Police driver now investigation and will possibly try to raise fritidsbåten, which is over 70 meters deep, depending on the weather conditions at the site.
– We use an ROV to scan the boat with the cameras. We can almost say that this is the wreck of the missing 56-year-old, when the boat is of the same type, and that it doesn’t seem to have lain on the seabed for long, ” says police sergeant Kjell Idar Vangberg to the Newspaper.
Police have not seen evidence to the Jan Rydheim yet, but will continue to search the area around about that he would not be in the boat.
– We have contacted Rydheims next of kin about the discovery and will inform them continuously about the ongoing work, underlines Vangberg.
