Crossing Norway's fjords is going to get easier with world's first submerged floating tunnel. The tunnel would sit about 100 feet below the surface of a fjord. By Dragana Jovanovic.

The idea for a submerged floating tunnel is not new. In 1882, British naval architect Edward Reed proposed a floating tunnel across the English Channel – an idea that was vetoed.

For those of us who live in busy, built-up cities, travelling through tunnels is an everyday occurrence. But engineers in Norway want to build a world-first in one of their fjords – an ...

A huge infrastructure project in Norway to overhaul the country's Highway E39 includes a proposal to build the world's first submerged floating tunnel.

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration announced its plans for a submerged floating tunnel back in 2011. Since then, much of the discussion has surrounded on which infrastructure design is ...

The project envisions a floating tunnel submerged at a depth of 160 feet using cables anchored to the ocean floor or a hybrid model has been proposed. Laura Martin Sanjuan twitter Greg Heilman.

So Norway is considering fording its fjords with something the world has never seen before: a submerged floating bridge. That’s the fancy term for a traffic tube that's under about 100 feet of ...

The idea for a submerged floating tunnel is not new. In 1882, British naval architect Edward Reed proposed a floating tunnel across the English Channel – an idea that was vetoed.