User:Geo Swan/The voyage of the Berserk II

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The Canadian government published a document entitled "The voyage of the Berserk II"'' in May 2009, about the voyage of a Norwegian vessel that tried to enter Canada with several crew members who were inadmissible to Canada.

During the summer of 2007, the Beserk II had a crew of five, two of whom were inadmissible to Canada due to their criminal records. The Canadian Senate's Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans cited the incident in its December 2009 recommendations entitled "Controlling Canada’s Arctic Waters: Role of the Canadian Coast Guard".

The captain of the vessel had produced films, for Norwegian television, of previous voyages. For the television productions he and his crew described themselves as "the Wild Vikings". He was planning to produce a film about their transit of the Northwest Passage.