Olavsvern

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Olavsvern is a Royal Norwegian Navy auxiliary base located just outside the city of Tromsø.

The base is small compared to its counter in Bergen Haakonsvern and lost it's status as an orlogsstasjon in 2002. It is now a subordinate unit of Haakonsvern and no units are permanently stationed there. A consequence of the restructuring of the Royal Norwegian Navy is that the base is threatened by shutdown in the near future.

On 14 March 2005 an accident in a scuba exercise inside the base led to the death of an SBS member.