I've been to 80m depth. I have a rebreather and a couple scooters. I probably have nearly enough gear for that entire dive team. Even got some 500# lift bags

I've been to 80m depth. I have a rebreather and a couple scooters. I probably have nearly enough gear for that entire dive team. Even got some 500# lift bags. Only thing I'm lacking are the forged passports and the explosives. A sufficiently rich Ukrainian in the construction industry or something like that could probably have the right contacts for both of those[*]. It also probably takes less explosives than you think since the water is going to amplify the blast (pretty sure the US Navy dive manual has a good section on explosives in water and top tips like making sure that you at least get your torso out of the water if you can). You wouldn't need a decompression chamber for those dives at that depth. (The _Shadow Divers_ book also documents a colossal screw up on bad gas for the depth, and the hazards of going inside of wrecks at depth, which don't apply here) > I am also wondering how this work was performed without Norway or the US noticing it. Most things that most boats do aren't noticed by anyone. If it wasn't that way, then drug smuggling would be a whole lot harder. [*] I'm betting Ukrainian because the pipeline wasn't benefiting them and was supplying piles of cash to their enemy, it seems kinda obvious to me.