The Baltic Sea anomaly: Knowing the mystery, geopolitics, and fishy things
Willard, A.T. (2022). The Baltic Sea anomaly: Knowing the mystery, geopolitics, and fishy things. Eigen beheer: Wroclaw. ISBN 9798355299989. 59 pp.
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| Abstract |
During the summer of 2011, a commercial dive team found a mystery sonar contact crossing the sea bottom in the northernmost parts of the Baltic Sea. Since it was found, this artifact has continued to resist all efforts to determine its origins. What precisely is the Baltic Sea Anomaly? The ship's trip out to the diving site had been impeded by terrible weather conditions and strong waves and now as it took up its pre-arranged position. The stress amongst the crew was apparent, on the deck technicians worked swiftly to get the rov unloaded and in operational condition even knowing that the window for its deployment was short. Below deck, Peter Lindsay and Dennis Orne gazed carefully at the sonar displays searching for confirmation that they were in the proper spot. After a short while, a pair of enormous recognizable forms eventually emerged on the screen but there was little time left for either relief or jubilation. Too much fuel had been wasted in bringing them to the spot and the impending Stormfront indicated they may only have one acceptable pass over the target. After a few minutes news came down from the deck crew verifying that the rov was now in the water as the operator's screen finally came to life. In the previous two or three days, there have been several events in the Baltic Sea that have caused damage to the Nord Stream pipeline system. There are four trunk lines, two parts of Nord Stream 1 that have been active for years and two parts of Nord Stream 2 that were completed around a year ago but haven't come online yet that have now been damaged by unknown forces. The damage is in 70 meters of water, it's about 220 feet and the problem here is narrowing down the susceptible is impossible because at that depth if you have a couple of tanks and you know what you're doing pretty much any commercial scuba diving operator could have gotten down that deep and you know taken a pickaxe to a pipeline or something. |
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