Urk, Netherlands, July 7, 2025 (AFP) - Dutch coastal village turns to tech to find lost fishermen

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2025-07-07

Jan van den Berg stares out at the sea where his father vanished seven decades ago -- lost in a storm just days before his birth. Now aged 70, he clings to the hope of finding even the smallest fragment of his father's remains. In Urk, a fishing village in the northern Netherlands, the sea has long been the lifeblood for families -- but has often taken loved ones in return. Some bodies never surfaced. Others washed ashore on German or Danish coas......

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