Norway is getting a floating suspension bridge tethered to the bottom of the sea — and it could change the way we make bridges

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• Norway could soon be home to a floating, multi-span suspension bridge in unprecedentedly deep waters.
• Bridge engineer Ian Firth discussed the bridge, which will cross a long and deep Norwegian fjord known as Bjørnafjord, during a talk at this week's TED Conference.
• Bridge foundations in deep water can be incredibly expensive. The Bjørnafjord bridge gets around that by floating.

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