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Major salvage operation after ship loses hundreds of containers

Video. Major salvage operation after ship loses hundreds of containers

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Hundreds of cars, toys and flat-screen televisions are languishing at the bottom of the North Sea after a cargo ship lost 291 containers during a storm in early January.

A car was pulled from the depths of the North Sea on Monday.

The vehicle was one of dozens that sank into the sea when a cargo ship lost 291 containers in a storm off the northwestern coast of the Netherlands on January 2. 

Now a salvage operation to lift scores of shipping containers from the seabed has begun, about 20 kilometers north of the Dutch island Terschelling.

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