US EditionDutch coastal village turns to tech to find lost fishermen
- A coastal village in the Netherlands uses technology to find lost fishermen, led by the foundation Identiteit Gezocht that focuses on unknown graves.
- Jan Van den Berg participates in searches, remembering his father who disappeared at sea during a storm in 1954, just days before his birth.
- The Netherlands has successfully exhumed about 90 percent of unknown bodies and stores all DNA profiles in a European database.
- Van den Berg states, 'Not a day goes by without thinking of them,' highlighting the personal impact of these searches.
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The Killeen Daily Herald
Dutch coastal village turns to tech to find lost fishermen
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…
Urk - The gaze fixed on the waves, his wet blue eyes, Jan van den Berg, 70, hopes to find "even a small bone" of his father, Dutch fisherman disappeared at sea a week before his birth. To try to find these fishermen who, like Jan's father, have disappeared at sea, villagers of Urk, coastal village of the north of the Netherlands, recently re-launched the research with the help of modern means such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the compariso…
Urk (Netherlands), 7 Jul 2025 (AFP) – The gaze fixed on the waves, his wet blue eyes, Jan van den Berg, 70, hopes to find "even a little bone" of his father, a Dutch fisherman who disappeared at sea a week before his birth. To try to find these fishermen who, like the father of [...]
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