A formal investigation into the expensive Norwegian frigate KMN Helge Ingstad, which sank while formally still under NATO’s command, has failed to identify the causes of the recent years’ most serious catastrophe in the Norwegian Navy, prompting severe criticism from an old seadog.
Eivind Sanden Vågslid, a former top official at Norway’s state maritime directorate and a long-standing member of the UN’s International Maritime Organsation (IMO) has unleashed scorching criticism against the preliminary report on last month’s collision, which resulted in the near-sinking of the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad.