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Photo: Naval vessels from Estonia and several other countries, involved in the two-week Operation Open Spirit 2021 mine-clearing endeavor. Author: Maria Tõkke, Jarkko Martin Pukki, Kaimar Tauri Tamm
An international mine-clearing operation in Estonian waters ended Thursday. Over 120 pieces of ordnance, the bulk of them dating from World War Two, were discovered and disposed of during that time. Various shipwrecks were also discovered during the exercise.
Of the 127 pieces of ordnance found during the exercise, dubbed Operation Open Spirit 2021, 93 were German World War Two-era sea mines, while seven unexploded torpedoes from the same war, and other ordnance, were located.