Harald Engen was delivering halibut to a village when he got a message that a submarine was entangled in his 32-foot boat’s trawl nets.

A group of Norwegian fishermen found themselves in the headlines after failing to catch some delicious halibut, but instead hauling in an unexpected catch: a slightly less delicious US nuclear-powered attack submarine.

Norwegian fishermen were stunned after they netted a £3.38 billion, 7,800-tonne nuclear submarine - USS Virginia. The young men were fishing in a 10-metre-long boat the Øygutt (Island Boy) in waters just west of Tromsø when they managed to get a catch worth £1,