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Germany searched boat suspected of carrying explosives used for Nord Stream pipelines attack



The German federal prosecutor’s office searched a boat in January that was suspected of carrying explosives used in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline detonations in September, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports on Germany’s investigation and the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. #CNN #News

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  2. Joey Austin

    Who actually cares who did it. It was done. People got mad. People were happy. It is over now. Stop wasting time trying to create false narratives and blaming everyone except aliens. It doesn't matter. Either fix it or don't. Move on.

  4. Fabian Teruel

    I've been a German diving instructor myself since 2001, 3000 dives with special training in technical deep diving up to 60 meters.

    For a dive at a depth of 70-90 m in the Baltic Sea, it requires far more training than I have myself.

    Cold (around 3 C or 35 F), darkness, currents, narcosis, oxygen poisoning, mixed breathing gases, bottom times, decompression times, special diving equipment, surface conditions etc. But now comes the best part, bringing 500 kg of explosives down there, attaching them to a pipeline with a remote detonator, etc. is about as difficult as a mission outside the ISS space station. This doubles or quadruples the risk and the necessary training. Without having simulated and practiced this several times in real conditions, it is tantamount to suicide.

    The work creates much more bottom time and more breathing gases such as helium and oxygen are required. Countless stage diving tanks that the diver can no longer carry himself have to be placed at different diving depths. Since the diver has to work (move) down there, he cannot carry 20 scuba tanks with him, so the necessary breathing gases for decompression are on lines at different depths so that the diver can use the right breathing gas in the decompression phase during the ascent.

    A small mistake at this depth and the probability of having an accident or dying is 99%. A person's personal psyche alone has to be more than top-notch, tough as that of a Navy Seal for a mission like this. I wouldn't want to risk my life for 100 million euros. All this then has to be planned minute by minute on the surface, with gases mixed and individually adjusted to the dive time and depth. The diving team must be coordinated and everyone must be able to entrust their lives to the others, i.e. the team must be trained under such circumstances as the football team of a Premier League Soccer Club, 2nd division football is not possible.

    Such a dive can easily last several hours without a planning phase and after that, the diver is not allowed to dive for up to 24 hours to eliminate the excess gas in the tissues otherwise, he runs the risk of developing caisson disease (decompression sickness). The dives don't start with explosives either, first test dives are made. the equipment has to be checked, lines with deco gas have to be attached at different depths and at least one line to the pipeline has to be laid in order to make the way down later without losing time or being swept away by the current. All this in a few days in 3 places under these conditions is IMPOSSIBLE!!!

    Since there is no way to order spare parts on the high seas, the whole equipment has to be on board twice in order to be able to repair devices in the event of technical defects (which will 100% occur with so much equipment) without having to abort the mission. The transport and delivery at the port of so many scuba tanks/breathing gases, compressors and special equipment would have caught the eye of any idiot at the site (we're talking about truckloads here, something that doesn't fit in 10 cars), and must have been borrowed from many specialized dive shops in the area since there is no individual, except the military, that owns so much equipment privately or just buys it on Amazon.

    The compressors for the breathing gas cannot simply be plugged into a socket, the generator on board a yacht is not designed to run these compressors, which far exceeds the performance of the ship's generator. I could go on and on for hours about why the whole thing is impossible, we're not talking about a 40-minute dive on a reef in the Bahamas at a depth of 20 meters, with a visibility of 30 m and 28 C / 82 F water temperature. The difference is comparable between a sports pilot to an astronaut who has to work outside of the ISS space station.

    Anyone who is familiar with technical diving knows exactly that something like this is only possible with robots/mini-submarines and highly developed special equipment from the Navy, which we, as average people, probably don't even know exist. Even if they had all that and also the training etc, the diving physics and the diving physiology remain, these are constants that cannot be shaken. This would make it impossible for 2-4 divers to complete such a mission in such a short time on a normal ship not designed for technical deep diving!!! It just does not work!!! IT IS A LIE!!!!

  13. Deshawn

    I think the US should stay out of this war. But then again. I see why we are supporting Ukraine. I just wish everyone could get along. But Aw well.. Guess we all will see how this will play out.

  15. Phil

    US won't be the first to send Jets. It will be either Poland or the UK who will take charge, the US will then follow along with other European countries

  22. Žarko Jokić

    hahahaha I love these uncontrollable "stewardess like" smiles, here comes Melissa from Kiev, and Melissa APPEARS with a charming smile from mouth to mouth (it is true that hundreds of people die a day, children's arms and legs fly around but hell….who cares , I have to be beautiful, maybe there will be some good sex tonight)I LOVE AMERICANS, I JUST LOVE THEM Somehow they are quite natural, they always look at their ass (only) they don't think much, with them you always know what you are up to

  25. Gran

    This proves how easily some Americans are duped by the government and their news media. Nothing from the US government on who committed this act of terrorism and war until Biden is accused, then all at once they come up with evidence that some men with a boat did it, which proves if they make up a ridiculous story some Americans will believe it! Mark Twain, "It is much easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

  26. Wonderful World

    re: NS bombing, well known a) who had the expressed motive, b) Who had the means and c) who had opportunity. This was a terrorist act on European Energy infrastructure!!

    NYT cant even come up with a fake story. Just full of insane theory…6 people rent a boat to dive to 80 meters depth with massive amount of explosives, plant these at multiple locations and remotely denotated afterwards. These must be worlds top divers and professionally trained for the job. Sorry, until we see these 6 people brought to justice…..try again NYT.

  31. onestopshop

    STOP SENDING UKRAINE WEAPONS TO COMMITT SUSICIDE WITH AND SOLVE THIS WAR DIPLOMATICALLY LIKE TRUMP WOULD OF..AND SEND SLEEPY 😴 JOE TO A ELDERLY HOME WHERE HE BELONGS

  32. Scotty Glenwalker

    It is like covid,I see a lot of comments about the US is to slow sending military aide to Ukraine and Ukraine is suffering the US needs to send aide faster we have already sent soo much! And just got out of a war with Afghanistan where we left billions worth of equipment there! I Think what this shows is we are doing what we can as fast as we can we do not have factorys pushing 150mm rounds 24 hours a day or making F-16s and tanks😑Russia does have those things and even they are suffering a lack of ammunition so we are making head way.Its why it is crucial we have allies helping us also.comparing this to covid is the same it exposed our lack of abilities in certain areas but in the end we prevailed.

  33. BoshTay Boom

    Wait a minute. I Thought Ukraine was kicking Russias ass and how the Russians are pathetically losing? But I see the con artist bitch Zelenskyy on tv begging for more money and weapons. Doesn’t sound like a winner to me.

  37. linusgallitzin

    There is a third generation US Air Force veteran who maps all air and sea traffic on the planet and gives reports every few days, but no journalist seems to be able to find it on Google, YouTube, or Rumble?

  38. Carlos Pantera aus Lübeck

    Deploying hundreds of kilograms of explosives 70 meters down the pipeline from a small boat do you think is more likely than the statements made by Seymour M. Hersh? To be able to dive that deep, you need a pressure chamber. Where was this? And then the guys also leave two fake passports lying around? bullshit! The US government is the world's biggest terrorist and even attacks its own allies!
    Your government said: "We will fight to the last Ukrainian." Means they don't care about their lives. So also the life of the Germans. I swear if the US geopolitical war spreads to my homeland I will fight with the Russians against NATO!!! Germany is my homeland and I will defend it against every enemy!

  39. Sergan

    Ukraine is an American project, a battering ram against Russia, Many people do not understand this, they have been brainwashed very well by the media

  40. Сергей Шестаков

    Perfect. First, NATO forces attacked German infrastructure, and now they claim that a complex deep-sea operation, with a pressure chamber and hundreds of kilograms of explosives, was carried out by a group of radicals in an inflatable boat. Unnoticed by NATO in NATO waters.

  45. Smack Attack

    I'm Liking Biden………… As president of the US, it was Joe's decision to blow up both of the Nord Stream pipelines as promised. With the cheap Russian gas of the Nord Stream 1 for only 12 years, Germany was able to once again become a world class industrial power. Now consider the effect of doubling the amount of cheap Russian energy to Germany with the soon to be completed but now demolished Nord Stream 2. Germany's industrial might would have yet again been unstoppable. Germany should never have been allowed to draw the world into war by using Nazis to kill Russians in Ukraine again but yet they are/ were. After the pipeline bombings (with no lives lost), we now have guaranteed long term commitments for our petroleum exports. And many German companies are looking to relocate here to the US bringing their German technology. After this reset, we now present a more solid and unified NATO front to Russia. Removing Germany's industrial base while Making America Great Again (MAGA Biden's way) was necessary for the future of world peace. . . The cooperation of several key EU allies with the US in this effort proves this unified EU consensus. Germany will not be starting any world wars anytime soon.

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