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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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

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.[2] 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.

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  1. ^ "Controlling Canada's Arctic Waters: Role of the Canadian Coast Guard". Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. 2009-12. p. 12. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2010-10-23. The preface to this report tells how a foreign vessel, previously banished from Canada and with criminals among the crew, sailed undisturbed into the heart of Canada‟s Northwest Passage. Authorities noticed her only after she landed in Inuit communities. The Berserk II was a small vessel, but it raises a large question: how well does Canada control its Arctic waters? {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b "'Wild Vikings' land in Cambridge Bay jail". CBC News. 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2010-12-07. Three Norwegian men calling themselves the "Wild Vikings" were arrested in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, cutting short their attempted voyage through the Northwest Passage in a sailboat.
  3. ^ Herman Berg (2007-09-07). "Berserk-gjeng dro hjem uten Berserk: Etter én uke på glattcelle ble Berserk-kapteinen fraktet ut av Canada. Nå er vikingene hjemme igjen og jubler over at de har taklet Nordvestpassasjen. Men båten står igjen ..." ABCNYHETER. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2010-12-07. While the U.S. sees the Northwest Passage as international waters, Canada argues that this is their area. Ships will sail through the passage must have permission from Canadian authorities. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Eric W. Manchester (July/August 2008). "Berserk in the Arctic: Coast Guard Eurocopter Crew Helps Mounties Get Their Men" (PDF). Canadian Aviation Magazine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-12-07. Sgt. Jenvenne's unusual mission began weeks before in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There, the Norwegian-flagged sailboat Berserk II was turned away from Canada when two of its crewmembers were deported. Undeterred, the boat and crew regrouped in Greenland and headed for the Canadian Arctic, fully intending to dodge authorities. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Crazy Vikings sailing the North West Passage". Youtube. 2008-12-08. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2010-12-07. Tribute to the crew of Berserk, and all brave arctic explorers. Berserk II sail true the North West passage, and clam part of the northern Canada on behalf of the Norwegian King, as the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup did 100 years ago. {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 64 (help)
  6. ^ Michael Byers, Suzanne Lalonde (2009-10). "Who controls the Northwest Passage?". Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Retrieved 2010-12-07. The self-designated "Vikings" sailed their yacht, the Berserk II, three-quarters of the way through the waterway without seeking permission. (67) Fortunately, authorities had deported two members of the crew from Canada on a previous occasion for reasons unrelated to Arctic sovereignty (membership in the Norwegian branch of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang). (68) These two individuals made the mistake of disembarking from the yacht and setting foot on indisputably sovereign Canadian soil just outside Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ Michael Byers, Jack Layton (2007-09-06). "How to Strengthen Our Arctic Security: Keep our promises to the Inuit. An Arctic dispatch". The Tyee. Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2010-12-07. In Cambridge Bay, we met with Mayor Michelle Gillis. She led us to the local RCMP who had just arrested five Norwegian adventurers intent on challenging Canada's authority over the Northwest Passage. The adventurers sailed their yacht, the Berserk II, into the waterway without seeking permission.
  8. ^ Nancy Teeples (Winter 2010). "A brief history of intrusions into the Canadian Arctic" (PDF). Vol. 12.3. Canadian Army Journal. pp. 45–68. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2010-12-07. The activities of this group may not have had sinister undertones, however, sources indicate that these Norwegians attempted to sail Canadian waters with two people undercover.121 Regardless of intentions, this voyage constitutes illegal activity. The intrusion highlights the potential for criminal elements to enter Canada through its porous northern border, as observed in previous examples of intrusions at Tuktoyaktuk, Grise Fiord and Churchill. {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 84 (help)
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