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New Year's Day bathers brave the Baltic
More than 80 people chose to welcome the new year by leaping into the Baltic for the annual winter swim in the southern town of Ystad.
Swedish ferry crashes into Polish port
Swedish ferry the Stena Spirit was involved in an accident in the Polish harbour of Gdynia on Thursday morning which left a damaged crane and three port employees requiring hospital treatment.
Swedish girl's message in a bottle answered after 22 years
A bottle containing a note thrown into the Baltic Sea by a child in the 1980s was recently found by a woman on the east coast of Sweden who was surprised to realise she knew the sender.
Wave power plant planned for west coast
Plans to built the country's first wave power plant in the sea, northwest of Smögen on Sweden’s west coast, have been proposed by Uppsala-based company Seabased Industry.
Shock number of seal deaths
More than 2,000 seals around Sweden's coast are now believed to have died this summer, mystifying scientists. Previous estimates put the death toll at just 200.
Polish sailors rescued after boat sinks
Nine Poles have been rescued from the Baltic Sea off Sweden after their yacht sank. The boat got into difficulties eight nautical miles north-west of Häradsskär, an island off Valdemarksvik, 215 km south of Stockholm.