The Skatestraum Tunnel ( no, Skatestraumtunnelen) is a
subsea road tunnel
An underwater tunnel is a tunnel which is partly or wholly constructed under the sea or a river. They are often used where building a bridge or operating a ferry link is unviable, or to provide competition or relief for existing bridges or ferry li ...
between the islands of
Rugsundøya and
Bremangerlandet in
Bremanger Municipality in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, whe ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The tunnel was the first undersea road tunnel in Sogn og Fjordane county when it was built.
It is long and it reaches a depth of below sea level. It is part of
County Road 616. It opened on 12 July 2002 and cost to build, including auxiliary roads.
On 15 July 2015 a tank truck crashed in the tunnel. The tunnel was closed and evacuated, since there was a risk the tunnel would be flooded.
It was reopened in December 2015.
References
Bremanger
Road tunnels in Vestland
Subsea tunnels in Norway
Tunnels completed in 2002
2002 establishments in Norway
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