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The first images from the exploded Nord Stream pipe at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Lipstick Alley ^ | October 18, 2022

Posted on 10/18/2022 1:25:31 AM PDT by House Atreides

SOUTHERN BALTIC SEA. The explosions that have escalated the geopolitical conflict between Russia and the West took place here.

At the bottom, 80 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea, Expressen films the ruptured gas pipelines in Nord Stream 1. Our underwater camera documents long tears in the seabed before it reaches the concrete-reinforced steel pipe torn apart in the suspected sabotage. At least fifty meters of the gas line appears to be missing after the explosion, which measured 2.3 on the Richter scale.

Last Friday, the Coast Guard announced that the bubbles above the Nord Stream pipes were no longer visible, which meant that the gas had stopped leaking. Expressen has now investigated the site and taken the first public images of the damaged pipes and holes with the help of a drone.

One of the newspaper's photos shows twisted remains of the several centimeter-thick steel on Nord Stream 1, which lies at a depth of 80 meters. At least 50 meters of the gas line appears to be missing, according to the newspaper.

- You can see that there has been a very large impact on the seabed around the pipe. There are grooves in the lakebed where the pipes have been, where you can see broken objects that look like pipe parts, says drone pilot Trond Larsen, from the Norwegian company Blueye Robotics, who helped the newspaper take the photos.

It is unclear who is behind the sabotage

Nord Stream 1 and 2 run from Russia to Germany, through the Baltic Sea. Parts of the gas pipelines pass through the Swedish economic zone. Other parts go through the Danish zone. It was on September 28 that the sabotage was discovered. Three different directions have formed in the gas pipes after someone blew them up.

Who is behind the sabotage of the giant pipes is still unclear. Intensive investigations are currently underway from Swedish, Danish and German sides.

The accusations have spread in different directions. Russia was quickly singled out as responsible for the sabotage by several experts. At the same time, Russia raised suspicions that the United States could be involved in the operation.


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Photos are at the linked site. The same photos but possibly at a better resolution (at least to my old eyes) can be seen here:

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forsta-bilderna-fran-sprangda-gasroret-pa-ostersjons-botten/

I’m sure more will be coming out of this apparently PRIVATE exploration of the site.

1 posted on 10/18/2022 1:25:31 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Hot link of link I referenced in post 1 above.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forsta-bilderna-fran-sprangda-gasroret-pa-ostersjons-botten/


2 posted on 10/18/2022 1:27:11 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

I hope I didn’t subscribe to anything at the hot link


3 posted on 10/18/2022 1:32:34 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up....)
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LOL - I don’t understand Swedish so wouldn’t know where the “subscribe” button is.


4 posted on 10/18/2022 1:40:52 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides
Bkmk. I have no ideal how this compares to other underwater pipeline leaks or explosions. The missing 50 meter section is going to get a lot of attention.
5 posted on 10/18/2022 1:46:00 AM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television, especially CNN.)
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“…The missing 50 meter section is going to get a lot of attention.”
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For sure. Fifty meters is about half the length of a football field. I don’t know how many of the joined pipeline segments it takes to add up to 50 meters but I read that EACH of those individual segments weighs 24 tons. It must have been quite an explosion.


6 posted on 10/18/2022 2:06:36 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

I suppose at least this time it can’t be blamed on a careless discarded cigarette.


7 posted on 10/18/2022 2:15:53 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: House Atreides
I found some information on segments and how they were laid you may find interesting, NORD STREAM 2 Pipeline Project Delivers Science with Energy

"Pipe joints are manufactured in Germany and Russia in 12-meter lengths and delivered to logistics centers in Kotka, Finland, and Mukran, Germany, to be coated with concrete, which doubles their weight from 12 metric tons to 24 metric tons."

That equals 4.1667 blown up segments, 100 metric tons scattered over the sea floor. My speculation, ½¢ guess (not a full 2¢), is someone laid linear charges or linear shaped charges along the lines, to make sure that there would be serious damage and no easy fix. If (big if) that is the case, besides the "who", is the "how", and the how to prevent it in the future. It was a major covert or special operations feat to pull this off. Four sets of charges in four different locations would take specialized equipment, personnel and time to lay no matter how it was done.

8 posted on 10/18/2022 3:02:12 AM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television, especially CNN.)
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To: House Atreides
Re: "A deep grave in the seabed where the gas pipeline used to be..."

I am skeptical that is what this particular photo is showing.

The steel pipe is at least one meter in diameter, and the entire pipe line is encased in several inches of concrete.

At first glance, it looks like the concrete encased pipe is right next to the narrow furrow in the sea bed.

I looked for a better quality photo at the Sweden newspaper link, but the "sea bed grave" photo is behind the pay wall on my computer.

9 posted on 10/18/2022 3:12:24 AM PDT by zeestephen
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Germany, Finland, Russia ... international crime leaving many Germans freezing this winter.

Funny — the “t” word hasn’t floated across the airwaves.
Leads me to think it was US Black Ops; Biden and CNN would surely be pointing fingers otherwise.


10 posted on 10/18/2022 3:16:31 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: House Atreides

US navy operation. Seals deployed from a submarine. It isn’t just a hole that needs repair, large section of pipe is missing
This was intentionally meant to disable the pipeline for a long time.


11 posted on 10/18/2022 3:35:24 AM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: House Atreides

“the Coast Guard”

Who’s Coast Guard?
Sweden’s? Russia’s? Norway’s? Denmark’s? JoeBiden’s?


12 posted on 10/18/2022 4:03:21 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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One of the Nordic coast guards. Likely either Sweden’s or Denmark’s.


13 posted on 10/18/2022 4:12:31 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Tupelo

Probably the Swedish Coast Guard. I think they were patrolling the site keeping everyone away.
Last week the Swedish version of the CIA claimed they had found evidence in the exploded area, but never said anything further. They never gave us any pictures.

So a Swedish newspaper hires an underwater drone company to get them some pictures.


14 posted on 10/18/2022 4:14:59 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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15 posted on 10/18/2022 4:26:51 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: reviled downesdad
US navy operation. Seals deployed from a submarine

You're close. Very close.

16 posted on 10/18/2022 4:32:41 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (The Communist vote fraud org. never sleeps!)
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To: House Atreides
Thanks for the link to these better resolution photos.

I hope extensive and not cherry picked information is released open source at some point. Remaining outstanding to me is a release of physical and analytical information that is conclusive to support an external explosion (sabotage) versus an internal over pressure that could be an operational issue. Both are plausible.

It is encouraging to me that Sweden is investigating independently from the consortium that I think is Denmark and Germany.

17 posted on 10/18/2022 4:53:44 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: zeestephen

We conclude that somewhere in the vicinity are 50 meters of smithereens


18 posted on 10/18/2022 5:01:30 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: reviled downesdad

pure speculation

there’s no proof of that


19 posted on 10/18/2022 5:14:08 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Widget Jr

One account (I don’t remember which and I have no way to verify) indicated that loose pipe could be moved away by current. However, I don’t know if there is significant current in that location?


20 posted on 10/18/2022 5:15:10 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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