Post #3754669
2026-07-12 05:43 UTC
@anderspuck@mastodon.social @svuorela@helvede.net @osma@mas.to According to the book, it had to be deep enough so that the break would not be easy to repair, but less than 100 m for them to be able to reach the pipeline. It was something like 80 m?
In the book there was no mention of an Ukrainian flag. The people on board reportedly presented fake Bulgarian and Rumanian IDs when Polish police controlled them in Kołobrzeg, if I remember correctly.
There is a lot of obfuscation in the book, but the story seems generally consistent.
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@anderspuck@mastodon.social 2026-07-12 05:53
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se @svuorela@helvede.net @osma@mas.to I don't think the argument about making it difficult to repair makes sense. First, 80 meters is not actually particularly deep for a pipeline. It's no problem for the specialized ships that do those things. And second, choosing a deep place has actually reduced the extend of the damage because the water had to run "uphill" inside the pipeline. If they had done it at a low water depth, a longer part of the pipeline would have been flooded.