Tags: Weapon.
Net cutters or trawlwire cutters were secret weapons employed by the Icelandic Coast Guard during the later two Cod Wars to cut the trawling wires of foreign fishing trawlers working within the then newly claimed Exclusive Fisheries zones.They were invented by Commander Pétur Sigurðsson Director of the Coast Guard with assistance from Friðrik Teitsson from the Icelandic lighthouse institution and Tómas Sigurðsson who were both ironmongers.
