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Someone downstream suggested dragging explosives on a rope, detonating when they hit the pipeline. Wouldn't even need to stop.
by rendall 4y ago
Someone downstream suggested dragging explosives on a rope, detonating when they hit the pipeline. Wouldn't even need to stop.
- belorn 4y agoSure it becomes much simpler if you remove the diving aspect to it, or simply remove the need to return to the surface alive. I would suspect dragging an explosive with a rope would take a long time, enough that radar and other ships would likely notice the behavior, especially if you intend to hit the pipeline 3 times on 3 different locations. Really expensive sonar would reduce the required time, as would really precise GPS locations, but even so, from what I know, it a very time consuming activity. Still a better theory than sport diving.
- tmaly 4y agowhat about those remote vehicles they use for treasure hunting? The seem to be able to go down far deeper than what is being talked about here.
- laverya 4y agoDrag explosives on a rope, but don't blow it up when it hits the pipeline - instead have it drop when that happens, and then detonate a week or more later. Vessel positions are tracked and recorded after all.
- rendall 4y agoExcellent counter to the idea that it must have been a coordinated effort with a sophisticated, well-funded adversary using submarines, and therefore Russia.
- bitL 4y agoIf they detonated it with a rope, they would have gone up in flames themselves as the radius of the leak is over 1 km long. It had to be a delayed charge.